What Southwest DOESN’T

"What the consultant doesn’t tell the customer...

...unless he's pragmatic and independent.

The world of information security is littered with acronyms, buzzwords, magic products and ‘silver bullets’, all certified to eliminate all threats, mitigate risk to near zero and give your users a whole new world of security.

The reality is that the information security space is chaotic, the threats constantly evolving and the responses to those threats frantically playing catch-up. We are stil seeing major information security incidents occurring, painfully, with much accompanying publicity and many operators and enterprises are wondering whether they are obtaining real value for money from the significant investments they are making in information security.

Consultants, many of them, provide professional services as part of a larger transaction, involving the delivery of hard- or software or outsourced security services. They will offer good advice, but it’s necessarily offered through the filter of the associated products and services they represent.

The reality is that proper security is messy and complicated and depends on getting the details right. There are no silver bullets and, however much money is spent, time must still be spent integrating and tuning the various components which go into sensible, risk-managed, affordable security architectures which are effective but do not impact operations or legitimate use of the systems they protect.

Henrik Kiertzner, a pragmatic and independent consultant with no corporate affiliation, will describe and discuss the vital components of just such a sensible security architecture and the metrics which can be used both to justify an investment and qualify its value once made.

Biography

Henrik Kiertzner, after a long career in the British Army, during which he served worldwide largely on intelligence duties, has been, variously, IT DIrector of an international engineering firm and a security and risk consultant in both the physical and cyber realms for the last 15 years. He is a Member of the IET and a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society.

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