Security technologist and author Bruce Schneier, and creator of the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) e-mail encryption protocol, Phil Zimmermann, will deliver the opening keynote addresses at the ITWeb Security Summit on 23 and 24 May.
Recognised as a "security guru", Schneier is founder and CTO of BT Counterpane Internet Security, author of eight books on security, as well as the author of Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms.
His keynote, "The Economics of Information Security: Ten trends you should know about", addresses questions such as: Do we spend enough on keeping hackers out of our computer systems? Do we spend too much? Are we spending our security budgets on the right things?
Zimmermann - better known by security stalwarts as Mr PGP - will focus on secure voice over IP (VOIP) communications in his keynote talk, "From PGP to solving VOIP security".
Zimmermann will also provide details about his latest project, Zfone, a prototype program that he has been developing for encrypting VOIP. He will explain the origins of his ideas and how his VOIP encryption protocol achieves security without reliance on a public key infrastructure, key certification, trust models, certificate authorities, or key management complexity that bedevils the e-mail encryption world.
<B>ITWeb Security Summit 2007</B>
More information about the ITWeb Security Summit, which takes place from 22 to 25 May at Vodaworld, is available online here.
ITWeb ran its first Security Summit in March last year, when the keynote was delivered by former hacker turned security expert Kevin Mitnick.
At the 2007 Security Summit, Schneier and Zimmermann will be joined by close to 30 local and international security experts and practitioners.
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