Smartcard technology and strategic issues for non-technologists
A half day interactive workshop
Stephen Wilson, MD, Lockstep; and Co-Chair, Smart Card & Information Security Australia
(a forum of AEEMA)
Malcolm Crompton, MD, Information Integrity Solutions
(formerly the Australian Privacy Commissioner)
“What is so smart about smartcards?”
Two of the world’s pre-eminent experts in the field will provide senior personnel with no special IT training everything they need to know about smartcards, so they may understand and better debate the sometimes subtle issues around this critical technology. This straight-talking, interactive workshop is specifically aimed at executives and senior managers involved in strategy, program management, policy formulation, risk management, privacy, security and architecture.
What will we cover?
- Overview of smartcard technology
- Understanding smartcard systems (and hype)
- Smartcard market drivers
- The leading applications
- International case studies
- Special smartcard features
- Security: Identity theft and Mutual Authentication
- Privacy enhancing or privacy invasive?
- Policy issues
- How smart are smartcards?
- The consumer centric perspective
- Best practice updates from the US, the UK and Australia
How will the workshop help you?
- Improve your ability to engage with smartcard advocates who are promoting solutions
- Improve your ability to overcome objections relating to privacy
- Understand the essential differences between smartcards and other security technologies
- Form consumer centric strategies for pro-actively enhancing privacy and avoiding compliance problems
- Know where the real risks lie in competing identity management approaches.
Who should attend?
CIOs, CTOs, CPOs, Risk Managers, Strategic Planners, Government Liaison Managers, and Business Architects, in the Banking, Healthcare and Government sectors.
About the workshop leaders
Stephen Wilson, founder of Lockstep Consulting, is a leading independent authority on authentication, identity management and smartcards. His major recent consulting assignments include the Australian Government Smartcard Framework, the Internet Industry Association’s two factor authentication model, and the harmonisation of e-authentication laws across ASEAN nations.
Malcolm Crompton, Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions, was Federal Privacy Commissioner from 1999 to 2004. He led the implementation of Australia’s private sector privacy law that commenced in 2001. He currently advises diverse organisations around the world on the complex intersections of policy and technology, including APEC, Microsoft, the OECD, several multi-national financial institutions and government agencies.
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