HITEC focuses on security issues
Keynote speakers at HITEC 2014 in Los Angeles in June have been announced. This year, HITEC 2014 will tackle a collaborative economy, risk assessment, and corporate security in keynote sessions.
Douglas Merrill, former Google CIO will teach the audience how to analyse security budgets to identify unmanaged risks that need attention and wasted spending that can be cut. He gives a broad, sweeping view of how to keep a company secure and stable, and hones in on specific concerns. He will explore how to design security that promotes innovation and productivity rather than obstacles and frustration.
Rachel Botsman, social innovator and author, named by Time as one of the 10 ideas that will change the world, will explain how the rapidly growing collaborative economy is transforming production, finance, education and consumption. She focuses on the macro changes in consumer behaviours, taking us into a world where we value access over ownership, peer trust over institutional trust and a completely new relationship between buyers and sellers.
Eric O’Neill, former FBI operative and the subject of the film Breach, will explore a number of steps corporations and individuals can take to secure critical information, including counter espionage techniques, addressing the trusted insider problem, surviving social media, the importance of diligence, and themed for a robust cyber security strategy highlighted by his first hand experiences as a security advisor, attorney and FBI operative plus some entertaining albeit eye-opening examples.
