Join us on Tuesday, November 17th, 6:00 PM at the Manchester City Library, as our guest speaker, Ed Adams, President and CEO of Security Innovation, will explore "Real Risks & True Protections - Threats Technology Can & Cannot Protect Against". 

About the Presentation:
There isn’t a security threat that you can think of that some security company’s marketing literature doesn’t promise a solution for. But despite the zeal of marketers there are still some threats to enterprise information
technology that the industry is just beginning to address. Take the phishing phenomenon for example. The premise here is pretty simple: send an email to a user and lie about where you’re sending it from (a bank is always good), tell them they have to urgently log into their account, provide a legitimate looking web link to click on in the message body and then steal their account info as they enter it onto an authentic-looking web page. There are a few technology issues here. The first is that many of the standard email protocols allow one to lie pretty easily about where a message is coming from. The second problem is that the average user doesn’t know if they’re at the legitimate banking site or not; it al looks like one big, complicated URL. This talk highlights the challenges that IT managers face when combating current and future threats. The talk vividly illustrates the limits of current technologies and takes a look forward to how evolving needs will be met.

About our Speaker:
Ed Adams is the President and CEO of Security Innovation, the independent authority on application security risk assessment, risk mitigation and education. He is a seasoned software executive with successful leadership experience in various-sized organizations that serve the IT security and quality assurance industries.

Mr. Adams is the founder and business owner of the Application Security Industry Consortium, Inc. (AppSIC), an association of industry technologists and leaders establishing and defining cross-industry application security guidance and metrics. He is on the board of the National Information Security Group (NAISG).

No stranger to the podium, Mr. Adams has presented to thousands at numerous seminars, software industry conferences, and private companies. He has contributed written and oral commentary for business and technology media outlets such as New England Cable News, Associated Press, CSO Magazine, SC Magazine, Boston Globe, CIO Update, Wall Street Reporter, Investors Business Daily, Optimize and CFO Magazine.

Mr. Adams is in the process of writing a book titled “Information Security Management: Survival Guide”, which will be published by Wiley & Sons and is due out in 2010. He also has maintains a blog with CSO Magazine and is a columnist for CIO Update.

Chapter Meeting Details:

DATE:   Tuesday, November 17th, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
LOCATION: Manchester City Library Auditorium, 405 Pine Street, Manchester, NH 03103