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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:48:39 GMT
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Subject: LSE Security Colloquia - Spring 1998

LSE CSRC Security Colloquium
Advance Notice of Meetings in Spring 1998

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CSRC/LSE  Public Security Colloquia Series

The Computer Security Research Centre at the London School of Economics
runs a series of public colloquia on selected Thursday evenings in Central
London.

LSE Vera Anstey Room 18:00-19:45

This is the list of currently-planned meetings.  We may add to them
during the course of the next few weeks

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Thursday February 5 1998

CONTROLLING AND CENSORING THE NET

Nick Hutton
Security Director,  UUnet

What are the practical issues of using ISPs as a mechanism for controlling
Internet activity?    Should ISPs assume any responsibility in this field
or simply offer themselves as a technical service?   What relationship
should ISPs have with law enforcement?



Thursday February 12 1998

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BUSINESS CONTINGENCY PLANNING

Jim Burtles
Corporate Integrity

Jim Burtles is one of the founders of BCP consultancy, originally with
Safetynet and now with his own training-orientated company and SURVIVE!
BCP has recently developed into a sophisticated specialism with its own
methodologies and training schemes.  He will provide an update


Thursday February 19 1998
DATASTREAM AND KUJI:
Success and failure in hacker investigations

Peter Sommer
CSRC/LSE

This is the UK hacker case that featured in the 1996 US GAO Report
Security in Cyberspace.  It featured many new techniques in computer
forensics.  The speaker, who was the defence expert in the UK criminal
case, speculates how successful some of these would have been had
they been fully tested in court.
(Joint meeting with British Computer Society Law Special Interest
Group)



Thursday March 5 1998

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE POLICING

Graham Saltmarsh
Business Crime Group, National Crime Squad

The UK's National Crime Squad is due to start operations in April 1998
and will target the most serious of crimes.  Graham Saltmarsh who has
worked in criminal intelligence at Scotland Yard and NCIS and
specialised in organised crime,  will discuss the evolving relationship
between the police and private security in the form of corporate
security directors and the large private security companies



Thursday March 12 1998

INFORMATION OPERATIONS / INFORMATION ASSURANCE

Jamie MacIntosh
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency

The world's major Ministries of Defence are increasingly pre-occupied
with the notion of Information Warfare.  Two particular concerns are
pre-eminent:  the possibility of attacks on a country's critical
infra-structures and how the security services can respond;  the
use of sophisticated IT systems to support and enhance the armed
services.  In the UK much of the research work is carried out by
DERA and the speaker will report on recent activity


Thursday March 19 1998

THE STATISTICS OF COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE

Chris Hurford
UK Audit Commission

For the last 18 years the Audit Commission have been collecting and
publishing statistics on computer fraud and abuse.  Their reports
provide one of the very few reliable sources of data.  Chris Hurford
will describe the findings of the most recent report (due for
publication in February 1998) and also the methodological problems
the Commission have encountered




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The purpose of the security colloquia is to allow practitioners and
academics the opportunity to discuss current topics in information
security at greater depth than is possible within the confines of the
regular commercial conference.  Practitioners can consider long term
trends and review some of the newer ideas emerging from academic research.
 Academics can discover new concerns emerging within the industry.

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Admission is free this academic year,  but non-LSE members are asked to
notify their intention to attend either by e-mail to P.M.Sommer@lse.ac.uk
or by phone to 0171-955 7968.

The Vera Anstey Room is located one floor above the LSE's main entrance in
Houghton Street,  off the Aldwych,  London WC2A 2AE

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|---->   hcorn@cix.co.uk   P.M.Sommer@lse.ac.uk  ------------------>|
|---->   Academic URL:  http://csrc.lse.ac.uk/csrc/pmscv.htm  ----->|
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