Over de keynote sessie:
In spite of thousands of researchers in information security who have published tens of thousands of articles, information security is not a science. There are solid techniques to improve security, but there are no good ways to measure security. FUD (fear/uncertainty/doubt) is a common strategy to sell security solutions, yet there are few reliable statistics on the impact and cost of attacks and there is very limited information sharing about real attacks. Even e-security industry leaders seem to be vulnerable to being hacked. In this context, it is not always understood which technologies work and which don’t and many decisions are based on factoids and myths. In this talk we try to separate myths from facts and we attempt to predict how information security will evolve over the next decade.

Over de spreker:
Prof. Bart Preneel is heading the COSIC research group at the K.U.Leuven; his group participates to the IBBT eSecurity department. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications and is inventor of 3 patents.  His main research interests are cryptography and information security (including privacy and e-voting) and he frequently consults on these topics. He is president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) and of LSEC (Leuven Security Excellence Consortium).  He has served as program chair of 14 conferences and he has been invited speaker at more than 70 conferences in 30 countries.

 

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