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Security has taken on a very different direction in the last 10 years. No longer do we think solely about locking the house, locking the car and making sure that the money and jewels are safely stashed away. Today we speak in terms of locking the access of someone else out of a network, site or program. We talk about secure passwords and encryption, and we earnestly speak about firewalls and virus protection.
Or do we.....
This presentation will look at the way in which security gets much of the lip service of IT security without actual IT security. In fact, we leave our cyber doors wide open, we are more vulnerable than before, and we continually try to cutback the very elements that give us some protection from a cruel world of would-be hackers, criminals and their associates.
Bio:
David Cook is the manager of the SECAU Security research Centre at Edith Cowan University a research centre in its first year of activity that has been specifically pulled together in order to look at a wide range of security issues. David also lectures and teaches at the university in areas of Project Managemnt, Information Warfare and Critical Infrastructure. David has spent considerable time working and studying in both Australia and Southeast Asia. He has worked as a company director on a number of private boards over the last 15 years. He has researched a variety of computer security issues specialising in e-governance, corruption and hybrid technology crime. David's current PhD is on the topic of the minimising terrorist radicalisation through e-governance.
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