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SECURITY INNOVATION DELIVERS KEYNOTE AT SECURIT SUMMIT
Herbert H. Thompson, Ph.D., Offers Corporate Security
Guidance to Executives
SecureIT Summit - Wilmington, MA—September 19, 2006 -
Security Innovation, the independent authority on application
security development and assessment, today announced that its Chief
Security Strategist Herbert H. Thompson, Ph.D., delivered a keynote
on “How to Break Software Security” at the SecurIT Summit 2006 in
Monte Carlo, Monaco on September 18. With IT security problems
impacting the corporate world at the rate of once a week per
company, Dr. Thompson’s presentation will arm executives and IT
security staff with guidance on how to develop a corporate security
strategy and uncover security vulnerabilities in software before
these vulnerabilities can be exploited.
The SecurIT Summit is geared toward offering IT security guidance to
executive decision makers, addressing current corporate security
challenges such as hacking attacks, virus outbreaks and misuse of
systems. In his presentation, Dr. Thompson discussed tools and
techniques that companies can employ to help uncover security
problems before applications are deployed and vulnerable. Dr.
Thompson introduced a fault model that security testers can use to
conceptualize the types of bugs they are likely to find in security
testing, and he lead the audience through a set of proven software
attacks that have been effective at exposing security bugs.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Who: Chief Security Strategist, Herbert Thompson, Ph.D., Security
Innovation Inc.
What: “How to Break Software Security”
Where: SecurIT Summit 2006, Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort, Monte
Carlo, Monaco
URL: www.securit-summit.com
“Security crime costs companies millions of dollars in lost
business and major company disruption each year, but executives are
unsure where to turn to improve their IT security. They should begin
at the beginning. It is dramatically less expensive to select secure
software at the outset than it is to take a risk with insecure
software, and the vulnerabilities it may contain,” said Dr.
Thompson. “Responsible companies are taking steps to ensure that
their software is as secure as possible, and in order to do this,
executives and IT staff must know how to select secure software
based on the features built in during its development process. If
they can recognize the way that software attacks operate, they can
select software that has been designed and built with security in
mind by anticipating problems before they arise.”
About Security Innovation
Security Innovation, Inc. is an independent application security
firm that offers education, risk assessment and risk mitigation
solutions to Fortune/Global 500 and enterprise IT organizations.
Leading companies such as Adobe, Cisco, Fidelity, IBM, ING, HP,
Microsoft, VISA, SAP, Symantec, VeriSign and government agencies,
rely on Security Innovation’s expertise to gain confidence in the
security of applications they build and/or acquire, and facilitate
the technology, process and management change necessary to mitigate
security risk. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Mass.,
with offices in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Seattle, Wash. For
more information about Security Innovation, visit
www.securityinnovation.com or call +1.978.694.1008.
Contacts:
Davida Dinerman or Sadie Anderson
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(781) 684-0770
sisecure@schwartz-pr.com
