Managing Risk: The Challenges for Companies

Managing Risk – A Computing web seminar series in association with BT

This webinar is now archived.

Managing Risk is programme of content focusing on the increasingly critical discipline of risk management, a topic that is rapidly moving up the priority list for senior IT decision-makers.

The programme is based around two web seminars looking at the challenges facing the private and public sectors.

Thursday 13th March at 3pm
Managing risk: The challenges for companies

Thursday 17th April at 3pm
Managing risk: The challenges for the public sector

Event Overview

Web seminar 1: Managing risk: The challenges for companies

Senior executives – and their shareholders – are increasingly aware of the risks that affect the achievement of corporate objectives, and the complexity of putting plans in place to mitigate those risks. For IT leaders, an understanding of these issues is essential to supporting the business.

The potential concerns are multiple and varied. Vital information is at risk from technological threats such as viruses and hackers, and human elements such as errors or insider fraud. The growing regulatory burden makes risk management a central part of good corporate governance. And external threats, such as floods, natural disasters and even terrorism, make business continuity a critical part of any strategy.

This Computing web seminar, in association with BT, examines the best practices in managing corporate risk and how they relate to IT. Our panel of experts will discuss the emerging tools and technologies to help companies plan, prepare and overcome the risks to their business, and a real-life case study will look at how one leading organisation has developed a risk management strategy to deliver genuine business benefits.

Who should attend from the private sector?

CIOs, IT directors and IT managers
Risk managers
IT security managers
Governance and compliance managers
IT infrastructure managers
Business continuity managers
Data protection managers

Why you should attend

Learn what constitutes corporate risk and the impact it can have on your organisation
Understand the business benefits that can be achieved from a risk management strategy
Learn from experts how to manage risk in your organisation
Put your questions to our expert panel
Hear a case study of how one leading organisation approached its risk management challenges
Understand the emerging best practice in risk management
Understand the role of IT in supporting and delivering corporate risk management strategy
Understand the legal, political and ethical implications of risk in the public sector
Understand the benefits that can be achieved from a risk management strategy
Learn from experts how to manage risk in your organisation
Put your questions to our expert panel
Hear a case study of how one leading organisation approached its risk management challenges
Understand the emerging best practice in risk management
Understand the role of IT in supporting and delivering risk management strategy in the public sector

Speaker Profiles:

Raj Raj Samani
Raj has been involved in Information Security for over ten years, working for and within some of the largest private and public sector organisations in the world. He is currently working in the Capgemini UK Security consulting practice, having previously worked in the Deloitte UK Security consulting practice, as well as previously working as the EMEA Technical Manager for Vulnerability assessment company Qualys.

In addition, Raj is currently the Vice President for Communications in the ISSA UK Chapter, after previously working as the Mentoring Chairman for the UK Chapter for two years. In addition he is also local SANS mentor, has had numerous security articles published (Computerweekly, CSO-Central, ISSA Journal, etc), participated in the RSA Wireless survey for 2006, and recently appeared on ITV local news discussing wireless security threats.

Next to his work Raj has also obtained;

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE – in NT4, Win2k, Win2003), Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA in NG and 4.1), Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE - NG), Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA), QualysGuard Certified, RSA Certified Systems Engineer (SecurID), Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA), as well as a BA (Hons), and MSc.

Mark Hughes
Mark is the Director, BT Group Security, a position he assumed in October 2005. He is responsible to the Board for all aspects of day to day security and continuity in BT. This involves ensuring that BT has the right policies and procedures to keep BT’s assets –whether physical, logical or information - secure from attack; to counter fraud and also to minimise disruption in the event of an incident. This includes BT's civil resilience obligations.

Mark joined BT in 2002, assuming responsibility for a number of ventures including the partnership with Government for the Criminal Records Bureau in Scotland and other Government contracts. He then ran the operations for a sales division in the Major Customer market sector, focussing on BT’s core services. Prior to BT, Mark was the Commercial Director of MWB Business Exchange. He was also a Captain in the British Army for seven years.

He is a non executive board member of the National Security Inspectorate, a member of the Senior Stakeholder Group of the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and the co-chair of the Security Information Service for Business Overseas (SISBO). He also sits on the board of trustees of the Hammersmith Hospital Charity in London.

Mark’s interests outside of work are mainly focussed on his family. However, he is also a keen sailor, skier and diver and has run four marathons, and is currently training for the London Marathon 2008.

John Walker - CTO Secure-Bastion LTD
John Walker is the owner and CTO of Secure-Bastion Ltd, a specialist Contracting/Consultancy in the arena of IT Security and Forensics. He is also activity involved with supporting countering eCrime, eFraud, and on-line Child Abuse.

John a practicing Expert Witness in the area of IT, and is a Visiting Professor of Science and Technology at the School of Computing and Informatics at Nottingham Trent University.

In the academic arena, John is the originator, and author of a CPD/MSc Module covering Digital Forensics, and Investigations.
John is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), a Chartered Information Technology Practioner (CITP (BCS)), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM (ISACA)) and Full Member of the Forensics Society (MFSoc , and holds the appointment of Director & Chair of the ISSA UK Expert Technology Panel advising both Public, and Private Sectors.