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“An Evening with GDPR” Tuesday 7th November 2017
Tuesday 7th November 2017 18:15 – 20:45, Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB003/LAB006), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Hosted by the Cyber Security & Networking Research Group, Anglia Ruskin University, British Computer Society (BCS) East Anglia Region, UK Cyber Security Forum Cambridge Cluster and OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Cambridge Chapter
This evening is part of a series of 1 Day Workshops and evening events on raising awareness for local businesses & organisations on the issues of cyber security and cybercrime, what regulations and legislation do organisations need to be aware to protect themselves and what is considered best practice in these challenging times.
In 6 months Europe's data protection rules will undergo their biggest changes in almost 2 decades. Since they were conceived in the 90s, the amount of digital information we create, capture, and store has exponentially increased. In simple terms, the old regime was no longer fit for purpose.
The solution is the mutually agreed European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will come into force on May 25 2018. It will change how businesses and public sector organisations can handle the information of customers.
The regulation has spawned a raft of “GDPR expertise” and scaremongers who predict the “end of the world as know it” . In our evening, we have two expert opinions of what GDPR should mean to you and your business both from an IT Security and a Legal Point of View.
Background
The British Computer Society (BCS) East Anglia Region represents the computing profession in the Eastern region providing networking opportunities for professionals and companies, a forum for continuing professional development and encouraging young people to enter and stay in technology based business.
The Cambridge Cyber Security Cluster is an affiliate UK Cyber Security Forum, a government and industry led partnership which will look at how the region can develop the skills and infrastructure to combat cyber security threats.
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. Their mission is to make application security visible, so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about true application security risks.
The Cyber Security and Networking (CSN) Research Group at Anglia Ruskin University has close working strategic relationships with industry, professional bodies, law enforcement, government agencies and academia in the delivery of operationally focused applied information and application security research. We have strong international links with professional organisations such as OWASP, BCS, ISC2, IISP & the UK Cyber Security Forum amongst others. The primary aims of CSNRG are to help the UK and partner nations to tackle cybercrime, be more resilient to cyber attacks and educate its users for a more secure cyberspace and operational business environment. These will be achieved through the investigation of threats posed to information systems and understanding the impact of attacks and creation of cyber-based warning systems which gathering threat intelligence, automate threat detection, alert users and neutralising attacks. For network security we are researching securing the next generation of software defined infrastructures from the application API and control/data plane attacks. Other key work includes Computer forensic analysis, digital evidence crime scenes and evidence visualisation as well as Cyber educational approaches such as developing Capture the Flag (CTF) resources and application security programs.
Speaker Biographies & Abstracts
Dr Reza Alavi – Chair of BCS Information Risk Management and Assurance SG
Reza has been working in various IT positions in the last 27 years and currently working as an information security consultant. He worked as International Marketing Manager in two companies, which specialise in wide range of consultancy services such as information security, risk management, business continuity and IT governance in the Middle East.
His current work as security consultant includes, specialising in information security coaching, helping his clients to become more effective and efficient typically through the strategic of information systems, risk management and security governance. Having significant experience of the commercial and financial sectors in various parts of the globe working with variety of cultures and work ethics enables him to understand current security requirements and threat landscape to achieve better outcome in GRC environment.
Reza is currently chairing the “Information Risk Management and Assurance (IRMA)” specialist group in BCS and sits on the RM/1 Risk Management Committee at “British Standard Institution (BSI)”.
Abstract: GDPR Security – “how to do it"
The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the biggest shake-up in privacy legislation and data management approach for many years. It will impact any organisation throughout the world that processes personal data relating to EU citizens. Organisations which breach the regulation can be fined up to 4% of their annual global turnover or 20 million Euros, whichever is greater. Breaches will apply to firms which do not have adequate customer consent for processing their personal data or violate the principle of the privacy by design concepts and model. It is crucial to note that both data controllers and processors are subject to the rules, such as failing to carry out a privacy impact assessment or not notifying the authority (ICO, the Information Commissioner’s Office, in the UK) about a breach. This talk will look at GDPR from the IT security perspective."
Dai Davis, Technology Lawyer, Partner Percy Crow Davis & Co
Dai Davis is a Technology Lawyer and Chartered Engineer. He holds Masters degrees in both Physics and Computer Science. He is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Dai has for decades consistently been recommended in the Legal 500 and in Chambers Guides to the Legal Profession. Having been national head of Intellectual Property Law and later national head of Information Technology law at Eversheds, Dai is now a partner in his own specialist law practice, Percy Crow Davis & Co.
He has a nationwide legal practice and travels regularly throughout the UK. Dai advises clients on intellectual property in Information Technology products, and all types of computer and technology law issues including such topical matters as Open Source, IT Security, Cloud Computing and Data Protection issues. Dai is a non-executive director of FAST (The Federation Against Software Theft) and a Freeman of the WCIT (Worshipful Company of Information Technologists).
He is primarily a non-contentious lawyer. A further “super specialism” that Dai has practised for over two decades is high-tech product safety and product recall, including the law relating to CE Marking.
Abstract: GDPR Data Protection – A Lawyers View
Data Protection has recently undergone a fundamental reappraisal with the enactment of the new European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). GDPR is not due to come fully into force until 25 May 2018; yet businesses which do not plan for it now will be severely disadvantaged. And whatever the final timetable for Brexit, or the nature of the agreement under which the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, businesses will need to comply with GDPR.
The new legislation is radically different from what is currently in place. Instead of a notional transparency through registration and consent under the existing legislation; real transparency under the GDPR is achieved through a series of rights given to individuals. Examples of such individual rights are: the right to object to data collection and the right to be forgotten. This is backed up by much more extensive obligations on data controllers to provide information on request and sometimes even before a request is made.
Many lawyers focus on greater penalties under the GDPR: a maximum fine of €20,000,000 can be imposed for breaches (up from £500,000). In addition to clarifying such penalties Dai will spend as much time on the substantial commercial benefits that can be derived from the new legislation.
The talk includes mention of the following topics:
· The obligation to consider privacy when designing an electronic system
· The obligation to consider privacy by default
· The obligation to notify breaches to the information commissioner
· The obligation to notify breaches to an individual affected
· Right to object to data collection
· Right to object to data profiling
· Right to be forgotten
· Right to data portability
· The effect of Brexit on UK data protection law
Provisional Agenda
18:15 – 19:00 Registration & Refreshments (LAB006)
19:00 – 19:05 Welcome from the OWASP Cambridge Chapter Leader, Adrian Winckles, Director of Cyber Security & Networking Research Group, Anglia Ruskin University
19:05 – 19:50 GDPR Security – “how to do it" - Dr Reza Alavi – Chair of BCS Information Risk Management and Assurance SG
19:55 – 20:40 GDPR Data Protection – A Lawyers View - Dai Davis, Technology Lawyer, Partner Percy Crow Davis & Co
Registration
To register for this free event, please register online at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joint-bcs-east-anglia-region-owasp-cambridge-uk-cyber-security-forum-an-evening-with-gdpr-tickets-39249433111
The event will be held in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Room LAB004 (Breakout Room LAB006 for networking & refreshments).
Please enter through the Helmore Building and ask at reception.
Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge Campus
East Road
Cambridge
CB1 1PT
Please note that there is no parking on campus. Get further information on travelling to the university.
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/your_university/anglia_ruskin_campuses/ca mbridge_campus/find_cambridge.html
Planned dates for upcoming events
Cambridge_OWASP Event 20170927 - Secure Coding Challenge | 11/09/2017 |
Cambridge_OWASP/BCS Cybercrime Forensics & Social Media Forensics Day Event | 11/10/2017 |
Cambridge_OWASP & BCS East Anglia Event - GDPR Evening | 07/11/2017 |
Cambridge_OWASP & UK Cyber Security Forum GDPR Event 20171115 | 15/11/2017 |
Cambridge_OWASP Event 20171205 | 05/12/2017 |
Cambridge_OWASP & BCS Cybercrime Forensics/IoT Forensics Security Day 20180110/11 | 10/01/2018 or 11/01/2018 |
Cambridge_OWASP & UK Cyber Security Forum Cyber Machine Learning Day 20180118/19 | 18/01/2018, |
Cambridge_OWASP Event | 13/02/2018 |
Cambridge_OWASP Event | 13/03/2018 |
Cambridge_OWASP Event | 10/04/2018 |
Cambridge_OWASP Event | 08/05/2018 |
Date | Name / Title | Link |
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11 October 2017 | Dr Char Sample | presentation |
7 November 2017 | Dr Reza Alavi | presentation |
11 October 2017 | Dennis Ivory & Dr Diane Gan | presentation |
12 September 2017 | John Fitzgerald - Secure Code Warrior | presentation |
4 April 2017 | Leum Dunn - Redacted | presentation |
7 March 2017 | Andrew Thompson - Checkmarx | presentation |
7 March 2017 | John Haine IoT Security Foundation (Chair) | presentation |
25 Jan 2017 | Nick Alston CBE / PIER Chair | presentation |
25 Jan 2017 | Mark Pearce/ 7Safe/PA Consulting | presentation |
25 Jan 2017 | Martin Cassey / Nascenta | presentation |
25 Jan 2017 | Paul Rowley FBCS / Havebury Housing Association | presentation |
25 Jan 2017 | Laurence Kaleman / Legal Director, Olswang | presentation |
25 Jan 2017 | Tony Drewitt / Head of Consultancy - IT Governance | presentation |
19 Jan 2017 | Tony Drewitt / Head of Consultancy - IT Governance | presentation |
19 Jan 2017 | Peter Yapp / NCSC Deputy Director - Incident Response | presentation |
19 Jan 2017 | Martin Cassey / Nascenta | presentation |
10 Nov 2016 | Graham Rymer / University of Cambridge | |
10 Nov 2016 | Mark Wickenden | |
12 05 2016 | Phil Cobley / Modern Policing & the Fight Against Cyber Crime | presentation |
12 05 2016 | Jules Pagna Disso / Building a resilient ICS | presentation |
08 03 2016 | Andrew Lee-Thorp / So you want to use a WebView? Android WebView: Attack and Defence | |
10 11 2015 | Steve Lord / Trying (and failing) to secure the Internet of Things | |
John Mersh / Software and System Security: a life vest in the IoT ocean | ||
10 Oct 2015 | Sumit "sid" Siddharth / Some neat, new and ridiculous hacks from our vault | |
10 Feb 2015 | Steven van der Baan / Web Application Security Testing with Burp Suite | |
2 December 2014 | Colin Watson / OWASP Cornucopia | |
21 October 2014 | Eireann Leverett | presentation |
1st April 2014 | Ian Glover (CREST) / Overview of the CREST activities to professionalise the industry. | |
Yiannis Chrysanthou (KPMG) / Modern Password Cracking | ||
Damien King (KPMG) / Filename Enumeration with TildeTool | ||
12th November 2013 | Paul Cain / Tracking Data using Forensics | |
12th November 2013 | James Forshaw/ The Forger's Art: Exploiting XML Digital Signature Implementations | presentation |
5th March 2013 | Sarantis Makoudis / Android (in)Security | presentation |
5th March 2013 | Nikhil Sreekumar / Power On, Powershell | presentation |