Cyber security: academia and industry join forces
Monday 1 February 2016
CYBER intelligence experts from 30 companies will be invited to collaborate with University of Salford researchers at an event on February 17.
Government at home and abroad is offering funding to businesses and universities who collaborate on solutions to a host of security issues posed via information systems.
Our event at MediaCity, is hosted by the School of Computing, Science and Engineering with the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (Northern Chapter).
Dr Ali Dehghantanha, presents Connecting dots between academia and industries in cyber security setting out how companies in cyber security can collaborate with the University. Colleagues from the Enterprise Office will explain what UK and EU funds are available for collaboration with companies.
The agenda is as follows:
13:00 Registration
13:30 Dr Daniel G. Dresner (University of Manchester) Three laws of cyber and information security
14:15 David Hewitt, IBM, Forensics and Incident Response
15:00 Tea & Networking
15:30 Dr Ali Dehghantanha, Cyber Threats and Threat Intelligence
16:15 Networking Buffet
17:00 Close
Dr Dehghantanha, a recent contributor on BBC radio to discussions around cyber crime and cyber terrorism, said: “Organisations are now taking information security very seriously but we are far from watertight in many areas. This conference is a timely look at the gaps in our common knowledge and how we can increasingly apply strategies in partnership in order for them to be effective.”
Cyber Intelligence - Register for the event now.
For more about cyber security and informatics research at the University of Salford, go here and read here about our postgraduate programmes in Information Security http://www.salford.ac.uk/pgt-courses/information-security -
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