Sydney - Tuesday 2 August 2011 (am) - Portside Centre, 207 Kent St, Sydney
Melbourne - Wednesday 3 August 2011 (am) - CQ, 113 Queen St, Melbourne

Topics and Synopsis:

Part 1: Keynote - Trends in Internet & IT Security and addressing the upcoming challenges
by Taher Elgamal, the inventor of SSL, CSO, Axway (Tumbleweed)
A generic independent session, not promoting any vendors products.

Synopsis:

The Internet changed everything.  We learnt many lessons from the first 15 years of the Internet as a business medium.  We have evolved to a typical security model for most organizations. This model will need to dramatically change during the next decade with the challenges and growth of mobile connectivity, the cloud, social networking, and ubiquitous connections. How will we build this new model?

Topics:

- Internet Connectivity Changed Everything
- E-Commerce Today and Current Online Fraud
- The Current Security Model for the Internet, Lessons Learnt, What did not work
- The next Decade
- The Mobile Challenge, and Trends in Mobile Security
-  The Cloud Challenge, and Trends in Cloud Security
- The Social Networking Challenge, and Social Networking and Security
-  The number of networked devices challenge, Trends in Connectivity and Security
- Securing the Infrastructure
- Securing the Applications
-  Securing the Information
- E-Commerce and Financial Transactions
- The Connected Health Care Network
-  The Power Grid
- How to Build an Overall Security Model
- Maintaining the Balance with the Dark Side
- Challenges for the region
- Predictions and Summary

Part 2: B2B/MFT file transfer technologies and best practices
By Todd MacDonald, CTO/CSO, Information Gateways (prev. with Tumbleweed, CA, USA)
A semi-generic session, with some references to several Axway (Tumbleweed) solutions.

Synopsis:

Why is file transfer so important? In our global economy with no "off hours" - the Internet is the first ever 24x7 ubiquitous information delivery system not just for online access and transaction processing, but also for file transfers. File transfer is mission critical in most organisations.

Now you can learn from one of the world's leading experts about the different types of file transfer, including external transfers with trading partners, internal backend transfers, and ad hoc transfers. How to manage these transfers reliably and securely, to meet any stringent requirements.

2 (a) Choosing appropriate file transfer solutions based on business requirements

- Batch processing (FTP)
- Email Attachment offloading (ad hoc)
- Centralized MFT  (gateway / hub)
- WebServices
- Message Queue (MQ hub)
- Peer to Peer cross file transfers (internal,  backend)

2 (b) Architecture and best practices for enterprise class managed file transfer (MFT) gateways

- Multi-tier security architecture
- HA, Clustering, DR
- Scalability, Load Balancing
- Data Storage availability / mapping
- Provisioning, business unit delegated admin, application subscriptions
- Automation, advanced routing, folder monitoring
- Server initiated transfers
- Integration to backend IT applications
- Centralizing management, control, monitoring and auditing
- Guaranteed delivery, audit trails, MD5 integrity checks
- Certificate based user authentication

Part 3:  External Trading Partner Mgmt using Adaptive Community Mgmt …..
… B2B/MFT meets Social Networking
by Taher Elgamal, the inventor of SSL, CSO, Axway (Tumbleweed)
A semi-generic session, with reference to a new Axway solution.

Synopsis:

Nowadays more than 80% of large companies run some type of B2B and/or MFT infrastructure. This results in complex end to end proceses for exchanging content and transactions. Issues surrounding community management are now front and centre.  As commercial ecosystems have grown, Trading Partner Management (TPM) has become the single greatest operational cost for B2B infrastructure silos.   Adaptive Community Management (ACM) is the convergence of technologies and best practices from traditional TPM, social networking, and MMORPG online communities.

Rather than focusing on trading partner compliance and centralized control of technical connectivity, ACM enables a distributed, policy-based model where member businesses perform most maintenance activity themselves.  ACM links integrated profile maintenance directly into enterprise-wide master data management processes for customers and suppliers.

Topics:

- Network infrastructure: to connect & communicate
- Network communities: people, groups, applications  with common goals & rules
- How solutions have evolved and human interactions added to the mix
- Business communities rapidly evolving
- Converging Interactions
- Networking Interactions
- Requirements for provisioning for community management
- Community management capabilities and differences with traditional provisioning
- Example use cases
- Example Member Portal
- Tracking, Auditing, Searching
- Service Provider Portal

Agenda: 

9.00am - 1pm with coffee break

8.30am  Registration
9.00am  Part 1: Keynote - Trends in IT Security and addressing the upcoming challenges
             by Taher Elgamel, the inventor of SSL, CSO, Axway (Tumbleweed)
10.45am Coffee Break (30mins)
11.15am Part 2: B2B/MFT file transfer technologies and best practices
             by Todd MacDonald, SME and CTO/CSO, Information Gateways (prev. with Tumbleweed USA)
12.15pm Part 3: External Trading Partner Mgmt using Adaptive Community Mgmt (B2B/MFT meets Social Networking)
             by Taher Elgamel
1.00pm  Finish

About the Speakers:

Dr. Taher Elgamal from USA is widely known as the inventor of SSL, the standard for web security.
At  RSA Data Security he ran the engineering department that developed the industry standard RSA cryptographic toolkits.
At NetScape he was chief scientist and was the driving force behind SSL. 
Dr. Elgamal has created numerous technologies and standards for data security and digital signatures, including the cryptographic basis for the Digital Signature Standard (DSS). DSS is the United States government standard for digital signatures, which are the confirmations of email messages sent by the claimed sender. Dr. Elgamal also invented the Elgamal Cryptosystem, which is the foundation for modern elliptic-curve ciphers and used in many commercial encryption products.
Dr. Elgamal is CTO of Axway/Tumbleweed, and serves on the board of directors of RSA Securities, Hifn, Phoenix Technologies, Securify, Facetime Communications, and Tumbleweed.
He received his Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.
At the RSA Conference this week in the USA, Dr Taher Elgamal was awarded the RSA Conference Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in cryptography and as the driving force behind SSL.
Dr Elgamal is one of the most coveted security experts in the IT industry.

 
Todd MacDonald from Australia is CTO/CSO for Information Gateways and a world expert in secure managed file transfer. Todd has worked for 20+ years in the USA security industry for companies like Tumbleweed, Reconnex, Checkpoint Software, Federal Reserve Bank, and has consulted to many Australian, NZ and USA enterprise customers in architecting secure content delivery solutions (inbound and outbound) including some of the largest financial institutions, retail chains, and government departments in the western world.