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Past Events
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Tuesday 6th May 2008
Windows Vista - Is it Time to Deploy?
Roger Burnett MBCS CITP
Room SW101 Computing Lab
Building J3
University of
Kent
Canterbury CT2 7NZ
This event is open to those who are not currently BCS members.
Here are copies of the slides shown at the event.
PowerPoint
(800k) and
PDF (340k)
formats.
Synopsis: Windows Vista has
been available for over a year, and the first Service Pack has just been
released. Is now a good time to consider deployment in your
organisation? In this talk, Roger will discuss some of the new
features of the product and how they may be of benefit. He will
also cover some findings discovered through pilot testing, and provide
some suggestions and recommendations. Whether you are currently
evaluating Windows Vista, already deploying it in your organisation,
have no immediate plans or are unsure what to do, there should be some
information presented that will be of interest to you.
Profile: Roger has worked in the
IT industry for 20 years, during which he has gained extensive
experience in the deployment and support of personal computers in the
enterprise. He is currently employed in a multinational R&D-based
company, where he is responsible for the design, development and
implementation of tools and processes used to deploy many thousands of
PCs throughout the world.
The event
will take place in room SW101, in the Computing Lab, which is building
J3 on the map
http://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/canterbury/index.html (opposite the
Gulbenkian Theatre).
If you would like to attend, please
could you let us know via email
for catering purposes. Our email address is
kentbcs@btopenworld.com.
Thursday 27th March 2008
Digital Forensics - The
Academic Perspective.
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Paul
Stephens
Senior Lecturer in Computing
Canterbury Christ Church
University (CCCU)
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Canterbury Christ Church
University
(Powell Building)
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 1QU
This event is open to those who are not currently BCS members.
Here are copies of the slides shown at the event,
courtesy of Paul Stephens.
PowerPoint (20 MB) and
PDF (1.7 MB)
formats.
Synopsis:
In 2004, a study carried out by UK MPs claimed that “We have around
140,000 police officers in the UK. Barely 1,000
of them have been trained to handle digital evidence at the basic level
and fewer than 250 are currently with Computer Crime Units or have
higher level forensic skills.” (Taken from “Supplying the Skills for
Justice: Addressing the needs of law enforcement and industry for
investigatory and enforcement skills”, European Information Society
Group (EURIM) third discussion paper, IPPR E-Crime Study).
This talk will discuss what has happened since this report was
published to improve the situation with particular regard to the
academic involvements of CCCU as part of this process.
Both national and international developments will be examined as
will plans for the future.
Profile:
Paul Stephens is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at CCCU.
He is the Programme Director for the BSc (Hons) in Forensic
Computing, and a Course Leader for several modules on the MSc in
Cybercrime Forensics (which is run jointly with the National Policing
Improvement Agency (NPIA)).
He has worked with and taught law enforcement personnel internationally
including representatives from Interpol, Europol, and the UN.
His interests include computer security, computer forensics, and
pedagogical issues in computing.
For directions to Canterbury Christ Church University, click
here.
The talk will take place in the Powell
Building (No 24 on the campus map, accessible by clicking
here - note that Acrobat Reader is required). The nearest car
park is by Entrance Gate 1, shown on the map, off of North Holmes Road.
If you would like to attend, please
could you let us know via email
for catering purposes. Our email address is
kentbcs@btopenworld.com.
Thursday 17th January 2008.
How method-based problem diagnosis can cut down
time by 97%
Paul Offord
Managing Director
advance7
Canterbury Christ Church
University
(Powell Building)
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 1QU
This event is open to those who are not currently BCS members.
Here are copies of the slides shown at the event,
courtesy of Paul Offord. PowerPoint
(2.6 MB) and PDF (0.7 MB)
formats.
Synopsis:
Method-based problem diagnosis is rarely understood and
even more rarely practiced, and yet it offers an effective means to
solving intermittent or long-running IT problems. In this
presentation Paul will outline an IT specific problem resolution
method called RPR and describes the core principles. He will
describe how you can benefit from the approach and illustrates the
effectiveness of RPR with two case studies from the finance industry.
Speaker
Profile:
Paul has a 29-year career in the IT industry, working in the
UK, the US and Germany
for companies such as IBM, National Semiconductor and Hitachi. In 1989 he founded advance7, an
independent consultancy specialising in IT performance and stability.
In August 1990 advance7 launched a critical problem resolution service
called REACT, since when the company has helped over 250 of
Europe’s leading companies solve chronic IT problems.
For directions to Canterbury Christ Church University, click
here.
The talk will take place in the Powell
Building (No 24 on the campus map, accessible by clicking
here - note that Acrobat Reader is required). The nearest car
park is by Entrance Gate 1, shown on the map, off of North Holmes Road.
If you would like to attend, please
could you let us know via email
for catering purposes. Our email address is
kentbcs@btopenworld.com.
Tuesday 4th December
2007.
Final "50 Years of BCS" Event.
Room SW101 Computing Lab
Building J3
University of
Kent
Canterbury CT2 7NZ
This event is open to those who are not currently BCS members.
Here is a presentation on the Computing Laboratory
at UKC, courtesy of Professor Simon Thompson.
PDF (0.9 MB).
The event
will take place in room SW101, in the Computing Lab, which is building
J3 on the map
http://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/canterbury/index.html (opposite the
Gulbenkian Theatre). For those of you who attended last year –
it’s the same place! As usual refreshments from 1830 for a 1900
prompt start.
For the
first time we will be using web conferencing, so you can either attend
in person, or log and dial in (please
email if you have not
received the details) from elsewhere. You won’t get the coffee and mince
pies though.
The agenda for the evening is as follows:
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Update on results of Lego League
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Prize giving to two undergraduate students, one from UoK and the
other from Christ
Church
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Prize giving and brief presentation of MSc dissertation from Christ Church post-graduate student
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Two short (10 minutes) films from the “IT in 2057”
series, each followed by 10 minute discussion.
We should be all finished by 2030 hours. Look out for the formal
invite if you want to log in remotely. Do try and attend somehow,
and send the 50th year out with a good turnout.
Tuesday 6th November 2007
Wide Area Data Services - How to achieve LAN
speeds over the WAN
Alan Edgecombe
Business Development Manager
kisdata Ltd.
Canterbury Christ Church
University
(Powell Building)
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
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Here are copies of the slides shown at the event,
courtesy of Alan Edgecombe.
PowerPoint (3 MB) and
PDF
(1.4 MB)
formats. The PowerPoint slides contain animations, so are
preferred.
Given the importance of anytime, anywhere application access, IT
departments are turning to Wide Area Data Services (WDS) to improve and
accelerate application performance across the wide area network (WAN).
Using (WDS), IT managers can provide
LAN-like access to data and applications anywhere throughout the
enterprise network, enabling real-time collaboration as well as
effective IT consolidation.
Using WDS, enterprises can improve application performance across the
network typically by 5 to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times,
and can reduce WAN bandwidth utilization by 65 to 95%, simultaneously.
These dramatic results allow businesses
to take advantage of their networks, infrastructure, and applications in
ways that they had never imagined possible."
Alan Edgecombe has spent many years in the IT industry in various
positions from Operations through to General Management.
Having worked variously for IBM, Network Appliance,
Riverbed and HP Business Partners in Storage, Mid-Range Systems and
Communications he has seen many changes take place in technology and has
seen how technology can help Businesses flourish.
He is a member of the Computer Society of South Africa and
is a past Chairman of the Cape Town Chapter of the CSSA.
Wednesday 12th September 2007
Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - Part II
Simon Revell and Scott Gavin
Canterbury Christ Church
University
(Powell Building)
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 1QU
This event is open to those who are not currently BCS members.
In April of this year Simon and Scott presented on the emerging area
of IT called enterprise2.0, meaning adoption of web2.0 within the
corporate setting. See Past Events.
In this session Simon and Scott will revisit the topic by providing a
brief reminder of the approaches and technologies encompassed within
enterprise2.0, and then opening up the session for group discussion and
Q & A.
Simon and Scott will also provide some examples of work they are
engaged in that is utilising enterprise2.0 and provide feedback on their
experiences to date in implementing it.
Simon Revell is a Technical Implementation and Development
Manager for a global pharmaceutical R&D company.
He’s worked for the company for 8 years and during this time has been
technical project lead on a variety of different technical
development/implementation projects, ranging across Experimental
Development, Clinical and Regulatory, for customer groups within Europe,
US and Japan.
Most recently he’s been a key contributor to a ‘Blue Sky’ vision
project responsible for drawing future scenarios for how the
pharmaceutical industry might work in 10 years time. Simon was the
producer of two highly influential future vision films that resulted
from this work.
Simon is currently focussed on building a new online collaboration
tool, designed as a communication channel and will ultimately allow an
online community to work together to widen and deepen the existing
future vision concept suite.
He has a passion for web culture and technology and how it can
influence the way we work, communicate and collaborate within the
corporate sector. He’s an advocate of a fast rising train of thought
entitled 'enterprise2.0’ (think web2.0 in the enterprise). He pours some
of this passion into facilitating an informal lunchtime discussion group
he founded in 2006 called the DIGWWW (Discussion Group about the World
Wide Web) and writes regularly on the DIGWWW blog.
Recently Simon organized a week of events inspired by enterprise2.0,
introducing colleagues to the joys of blogging, wikis and mashups, and
facilitated an online version of the event consisting of an online
blogathon that resulted in several hundred blog posts from a variety of
authors from across the organization.
Simon is a key component in the emerging blogsphere within the
company,
and has interests in a number of projects inspired by enterprise2.0.
He holds a Certificate in Information Systems Consultancy Practice,
the APMP (Association of Project Managers Professional) Qualification, a
BTEC Ordinary National Certificate (ONC) in Computing Technology and a
BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Information Technology.
More information about Simon can be found on his web-based blog:
http://corporatepunk.info/blog.
Scott Gavin is a contracted Project Manager working for a
global pharmaceutical R&D company.
Scott has been working with the company for six years in roles
ranging from Project Support and Technical Support through to Project
Management.
In addition to Scott’s ‘day job’ he is passionate about web2.0 and
how it’s use can change the enterprise collaboration and innovation
landscape.
Scott has been involved in fostering a web2.0/enterprise2.0 movement
within the company and introducing some very exciting social software
tools. He also runs a number of sites on the world wide web, and is the
founder of
http://www.playlocal.co.uk/, a social networking site for sports and
fitness, and
http://www.e2camp.net/, a networking and events site for
enterprise2.0 and web2.0 meet-ups in Kent.
Scott’s educational achievements include a Higher National Diploma (HND)
in Business and IT, a BTEC GNVQ Advanced Certificate in Business and IT,
a Diploma in Marketing and an award for Business Student of the Year in
1996 for a BTEC First Diploma in Business Studies. He is also PRINCE2
(Projects In Controlled Environments) qualified.
Tuesday 10th July 2007
Eight Significant Events in a 50 Year History of
Computing
Dr. T.
William Olle
Canterbury Christ Church University
(Lecture
Theatre Pg06, Powell Building)
North
Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
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The history of computing is relatively short compared
with that of any other area of human knowledge, be it
science, engineering, medicine, law, or accounting. On
the other hand, the development of the field has been
meteoric and computing now occupies a position as a
major employer of professional persons, a major facet of
industry and a body of knowledge to be disseminated at
educational institutions and used - hopefully as a
benefit to mankind. To have a broad perspective on the
history of computing for the purposes of education, it
is informative to review something like a fifty year
period and to identify the really significant events
which have played a major role in developing computing
technology as we see it and use it at the present time.
This talk is inevitably subjective, but is based on Dr
Bill Olle's fifty year involvement on different levels
and in different facets of computing. The number “eight”
is chosen, albeit arbitrarily, as a appropriate number
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Saturday 12th May 2007
AGM, BCS 50th Anniversary Celebration Dinner, Talk and Minicruise
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the BCS, the Kent Branch held a special event aboard a P&O ferry, sailing from Dover.
Our prominent
guest was recently voted the British Computer Society’s number 1
speaker.
Here are links to the slides shown on the day, courtesy of Peter
Wood: Word, PDF.
Here are some photographs taken during the event.
Peter Wood FBCS, CITP, MIMIS, MIEEE, CISSP, is the Chief of
Operations of First Base Technologies and spoke on the topic of
‘Top 5 Network Vulnerabilities and How to Avoid Them’. Peter is a highly
entertaining speaker, and his talk was both informative
and very enjoyable.
Our Channel cruise departed from Dover for a four
hour round trip. During the outward leg we
held the Branch AGM, followed by Peter’s talk. On the
journey home we enjoyed a three course dinner.
Over the past ten years, Peter Wood and his team at
First Base Technologies have conducted numerous network penetration
tests and audits for some of the largest organisations in the UK.
Over this extended period he has found clear
evidence that most networks share the same five common vulnerabilities,
all of which could be negated by good planning and a reasonable level of
security awareness.
In this presentation he discusses each of these
vulnerabilities, illustrated by real-world examples, and suggests ways
in which your exposure to attack can be minimised.
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Peter Wood
FBCS CITP MIMIS MIEEE
CISSP
Chief of Operations - First•Base Technologies
Peter’s
innovative and entertaining style has led him to present to the
boards of the largest international companies as well as at
international conferences on many IT security-related topics.
He was recently rated the British Computer Society's number one
speaker.
Founded in
May 1989 as a vendor-independent consultancy, First Base
Technologies now provides security testing and audit services to
clients as diverse as B&Q, Bradford & Bingley, Brighton & Hove
City Council, Co-operative Group, the Finance & Leasing
Association, the Learning & Skills Council, Screwfix, Skipton
Building Society and Trinity House Lighthouse Service. Peter has
hands-on technical involvement in the firm on a daily basis,
working in areas as diverse as penetration testing, social
engineering and skills transfer. |
Peter is a
Fellow of the British Computer Society and member of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Information Systems Audit and
Control Association and the Association of Computing Machinery. He is
also a BCS Registered Security Consultant, a Microsoft Certified Product
Specialist and a member of Mensa.
Wednesday 25th April 2007
Web2.0 in the Enterprise - Experiences and Opportunities
Simon Revell and Scott Gavin
Canterbury Christ Church
University
(Lecture Theatre Pg06,
Powell Building)
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 1QU
This event is open to those who are not currently BCS members.
What is web2.0? Or at least let us all get to a common understanding
of what web2.0 is, that helps us to understand what enterprise2.0 is,
the increasingly commonly used term for 'web2.0 in the enterprise'.
Within this session we'll look to cover:
- What does enterprise2.0 look like?
- What does it consist of?
- Who's using it?
- Why?
- Why do users get so passionate about it?
- What can IT professionals learn from it?
'web2.0 in the enterprise', otherwise known as enterprise2.0, is
receiving increased coverage on the web and in print, and is beginning
to have an influence over software designed for the corporate space, and
yet few companies have embraced it so far in it's purest form.
In this session we'll look to examine why it hasn't yet had bigger
uptake. Where and why it has enjoyed success. What it looks like now and
in the future, and why companies should and must consider it a key part
of their IT architecture.
Simon Revell is a Technical Implementation and Development
Manager for a global pharmaceutical R&D company.
He’s worked for the company for 8 years and during this time has been
technical project lead on a variety of different technical
development/implementation projects, ranging across Experimental
Development, Clinical and Regulatory, for customer groups within Europe,
US and Japan.
Most recently he’s been a key contributor to a ‘Blue Sky’ vision
project responsible for drawing future scenarios for how the
pharmaceutical industry might work in 10 years time. Simon was the
producer of two highly influential future vision films that resulted
from this work.
Simon is currently focussed on building a new online collaboration
tool, designed as a communication channel and will ultimately allow an
online community to work together to widen and deepen the existing
future vision concept suite.
He has a passion for web culture and technology and how it can
influence the way we work, communicate and collaborate within the
corporate sector. He’s an advocate of a fast rising train of thought
entitled 'enterprise2.0’ (think web2.0 in the enterprise). He pours some
of this passion into facilitating an informal lunchtime discussion group
he founded in 2006 called the DIGWWW (Discussion Group about the World
Wide Web) and writes regularly on the DIGWWW blog.
Recently Simon organized a week of events inspired by enterprise2.0,
introducing colleagues to the joys of blogging, wikis and mashups, and
facilitated an online version of the event consisting of an online
blogathon that resulted in several hundred blog posts from a variety of
authors from across the organization.
Simon is a key component in the emerging blogsphere within the
company,
and has interests in a number of projects inspired by enterprise2.0.
He holds a Certificate in Information Systems Consultancy Practice,
the APMP (Association of Project Managers Professional) Qualification, a
BTEC Ordinary National Certificate (ONC) in Computing Technology and a
BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Information Technology.
More information about Simon can be found on his web-based blog:
http://corporatepunk.info/blog.
Scott Gavin is a contracted Project Manager working for a
global pharmaceutical R&D company.
Scott has been working with the company for six years in roles
ranging from Project Support and Technical Support through to Project
Management.
In addition to Scott’s ‘day job’ he is passionate about web2.0 and
how it’s use can change the enterprise collaboration and innovation
landscape.
Scott has been involved in fostering a web2.0/enterprise2.0 movement
within the company and introducing some very exciting social software
tools. He also runs a number of sites on the world wide web, and is the
founder of
http://www.playlocal.co.uk/, a social networking site for sports and
fitness, and
http://www.e2camp.net/, a networking and events site for
enterprise2.0 and web2.0 meet-ups in Kent.
Scott’s educational achievements include a Higher National Diploma (HND)
in Business and IT, a BTEC GNVQ Advanced Certificate in Business and IT,
a Diploma in Marketing and an award for Business Student of the Year in
1996 for a BTEC First Diploma in Business Studies. He is also PRINCE2
(Projects In Controlled Environments) qualified.
Tuesday 13th March 2007
Why are Projects Still Failing?
Richard Morreale,
Inspiration
Systems Limited
Canterbury Christ Church
University
(Lecture Theatre Pf06/Pf07,
Powell Building)
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 1QU
This event is open to those who are not currently BCS members.
Why, after spending loads of money over the last 30 years on project
management tools, methods, techniques, training, etc, are projects still
failing at about the same rate they did 30 years ago? Richard
presents what he sees as the issues and what can be done about them.
He promises that this will be a great session with lots to think about
but will also be fun.
Richard is a highly motivated, enthusiastic and energetic person who
knows how to motivate his people to exhibit the same traits. He is
a larger-than-life Project Manager that companies call when they have
large, complex change projects to establish and implement or when they
have major problems with their existing projects.
Richard’s experience ranges from the dizzy heights of putting a man
on the moon as part of the Apollo Programme Team, to working as part of
the management team that computerised the British Income Tax System.
From rescuing and leading the delivery of two major systems for the 43
Police Forces in England and Wales to directing major Programmes of work
for some of the largest companies in the world. Please click
here
for more information about Richard.
Tuesday 28st November 2006
First Lego League - Kent Regional
Final
University of
Kent at Canterbury
The First Lego League is an
international competition, open to teams of young people aged 10 to 16.
The event for the Kent regional final was held at the University of Kent
at Canterbury. The BCS Kent branch provided sponsorship - the money
being used for fund medals and to assist the
winning school with attending the national final at the NEC in
Birmingham in January 2007.
On the day, teams from 19 schools took part, with each team
consisting of up to 10 members. The teams had to design robots using the
Lego Mindstorms system to accomplish a number of tasks in a set time,
each task earning points. They had two months to design and build their
robots, and develop the necessary software. The teams had to plain their
strategy very carefully, in order to gain the maximum number of points
in the available time. Good teamwork, and the ability to work under some
pressure in a competition environment were also important.
Each team had to discuss their designs with judges, and describe how
the team members worked together. Also, each team had to give a short
presentation on the subject of nanotechnology.
Further information about the event, including photographs, can be
found on the UKC web site here:
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/jwl/schools-liaison/events/first_lego_league/
Tuesday 21st November 2006
Brian Spratt Room (SW101)
Cornwallis Building
University of
Kent at Canterbury
For this evening, we are planning two talks, Open Source, the Real
Alternative, and a second, details of which are to be published
shortly. There will also be a presentation of
student prizes.
Open Source - the Real Alternative
Ian Stuart, Technical Director, CARISS
There are Open Source alternatives for virtually all commercial
software programmes. Ian will give a brief introduction to Open
Source Software, it’s philosophy, ethos and the benefits that it brings
to any organisation. Delegates will then have the opportunity to use
some software in order to experience the ease of moving to Open Source.
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Ian is the Technical Director of CARISS and has over 25
years of engineering experience. For the past decade he has
specialised in systems development and support for multi
national, medium and small organisations. He has a Master of
Science degree in Information Systems and is an expert on Open
Source Software. |
The Kent Community Network
Peter Banbury, ICT Project Manager, Kent County Council
This talk discusses the implementation of the Kent Community Network,
a WAN covering schools across Kent. This will give some technical
details, as well as an insight of what schools will be able to do with
the network in place.
Friday 28th July
Principles of Digital
Forensics as applied to Law Enforcement
Ian Kennedy BEng(Hons) CEng
MBCS CITP PGCE
Forensic Computer Analyst
Computer Crime Unit
Kent Police
Lecture Theatre,
Kent Police College,
Coverdale Avenue,
Maidstone,
Kent
ME15 9DW
A copy of the presentation
can be downloaded in PDF format by clicking
here (3.7 MB).
A presentation covering the principles of digital forensics as
applied to law enforcement in the UK.
Digital forensics is a newly emerged and developing field which can
be described as the preservation, acquisition, analysis and
documentation of digital evidence resulting from an incident. It is, in
effect, the digital version of an autopsy.
Unlike the traditional form, digital evidence is extremely fragile
and is even more difficult to form into a coherent argument suitable for
a court of law. Much of the work is based on reversed engineered
technology that aims to understand the behaviour of undocumented files
and technology in use today.
In a criminal investigation a forensic examination requires skills
that go beyond that of a conventional data recovery process. The success
of such an examination from a prosecution point of view depend not only
on the ability to uncover evidence of the act (the ‘actus reus’) but
also on the ability to prove the 'mens rae' or intent of the suspected
offender. Further to this there is a strict legal process in place for
the collection, handling, analysis and presentation of the evidence that
must be followed.
A forensic examination of a computer can be very revealing process
that yields the behaviour and habits of an individual. Internet browsing
habits, organisation of files on their disk, email conversations,
letters, diary entries, chat logs, holiday photos, home videos and
financial files all add up to make a "psychological profile" of the
computer user.
The presentation will cover the following topics:
- Background to digital forensics
- Guiding principles and their application
- Tools of the trade
- Finding the evidence - Actus Reus
- Finding proof of intent - Mens Rae
- Live demonstration
- Questions
Profile: Ian Kennedy BEng(Hons) PGCE CEng MBCS CITP
Ian graduated from an Engineering Systems, Computing and Control
degree in 1992 and would have found himself in a career in engineering
had BP not decided to restructure their global operations during his
degree finals! Following a stint in post graduate research at South Bank
University, London where he commenced his C++ programming experience in
a clinical radiotherapy context.
Three years later and with a sore head, he started his seven year
stretch in the world of the NHS taking on a variety of IT related roles
from application developer for in-house solutions to data management.
After a brief time working as a programmer on a US futures market
project he moved to System C Healthcare Ltd. in 1998 where he initially
took on a programming role and later progressed to implementation and
customer liaison roles. During this time he developed his interest in
computer security and jumped at the opportunity to join Kent Police in
2003 as a Forensic Computer Analyst.
In the Spring of 1995 Ian became a member of the British Computer
Society and subsequently went on to obtain CITP status. By the Winter of
the same year Ian had become a Chartered Engineer. Ian is also a
qualified teacher and has been practicing on a part-time basis since
1995 at a local education centre.
A copy of the publicity poster for this event is available in
Word
and PDF formats.
Please click on the appropriate link.
Wednesday 24th May 2006
Kent Branch AGM and
Planning for the Unexpected: Continuity for ITC Services
Carl Bradbury, Insight
Consulting
Please click
here
for a copy of the presentation. Acrobat Reader is required.
Canterbury Christ Church
University
(Lecture Theatre Pg06, Powell
Building)
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
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This event is open to those who are not currently BCS members.
The Kent Branch Annual General Meeting will start at 18:30, and will
be followed by the presentation, commencing at 19:15. This will
cover the following topics:
- IT Continuity, what it is, why it’s important, and today’s
challenges
- A typical environment, application, and recovery
- How we decide what is critical
- Addressing the two key questions (RTOs and RPOs)
- The value of data, the threats, and securing your data
- Ten key principles
- Summary
- Q&As
Wednesday 22nd March 2006
Security of Identity
Management
Professor Brian S Collins
Canterbury Christ Church
University
(Lecture Theatre Pg06, Powell
Building)
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
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This event is open to those who are not currently BCS members.
The management of personal identity has become one of the most
emotive IT discussion topics. There are concerns over the control and
ownership of personal identity data, who can access it, the possible
loss of identity through system failure or security breaches – and not
least the technology and system design issues surrounding national
schemes.
Will technology be robust enough to support identity schemes such as
that proposed by the UK government? Even if the technology is up to the
job, the human element raises concerns. People are involved throughout
the process - and people are difficult to control using technology. The
replacement of signed credit card slips with chip and PIN cards may be
creating a blind faith in the technology, and that faith may apply also
to identity management.
This talk will address the underlying security problems and highlight
those assurance issues that are different for identity information
management as compared with any other types of information.
Professor Brian S Collins Vice President, External Relations and
Chair, Security Forum, BCS.
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Professor Brian S Collins MA, D.Phil, FBCS, CITP, FIEE,
FIOP, FRSA, RCDS
Professor Collins is currently Professor of Information
Systems and Head of Department at DCMT, Cranfield University,
Shrivenham,. His current personal research interests centre on
the design and engineering of structured, secure and dependable
knowledge and information management processes and systems using
next generation information and communications technology,
particularly in the context of NEC. He was special adviser to
the Home Office Select Committee on ID cards, technical adviser
to the DTI on a Foresight Cybertrust and Crime Prevention
project, and is an Associate Fellow of RIIA Chatham House on
Future Global Security issues. He was International Director of
Information Technology at Clifford Chance, Head of Information
Systems at the Wellcome Trust and at GCHQ was Director of
Science and Technology. He is a graduate of Oxford University.
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12 December 2005
An Introduction to Open Source
Joint event with the BCS Open Source
Specialist Group and BCS Kent Branch to be held on 12 December 2005
entitled An Introduction to Open Source.
Location: The British Computer Society, Davidson Building, 5
Southampton Street, London W.C.2.
Full details can be found at
http://ossg.bcs.org/events/event_reg This promises to be a very
interesting evening with tracks being offered covering issues for
developers and for management/business.
IMPORTANT: Registration is required. To register, send an email to
padams@ossg.bcs.org stating
your name and which track you wish to attend (An Introduction to Open
Source for IT Managers and Procurers/An Introduction to Open Source for
Developers). This event is expected to be popular, so please book
early.
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