WORLDCOMP'07: Keynote Lecture

Notebook Security: what encryption can and cannot do to safeguard user-data Selim Aissi, PhD, CISSP Chief Security Architect, Mobile Platform, Architecture Division, Intel Corporation, USA Date: June 26, 2007 Time: 1:40 - 2:40 PM Location: Ballroom 6

With the ever-increasing number of reports of embarrassing data breaches, and with the emerging set of stringent data privacy regulations such as HIPPS and SOX, there?s a sense of urgency for adopting encryption technology.

This presentation sheds some light on data-theft prevention from legal as well as technical perspectives. Differentiation between internal and external threats and attack methods will be explained. Also, methods for applying encryption strategically and for detecting and auditing data-theft will be described.

Biography

Dr. Aissi has over 15 years of computer industry experience, and was recently named by ITSecurity.com as one of the ?Top 59 Most Influential Security Experts of 2007?. His book "Security for Mobile Networks and Platforms" (with co-authors Anand Prasad and Nora Dabbous) was published in July 2006, and is widely adopted as a textbook.

Dr. Aissi is currently Chief Security Architect at Intel Corporation?s Mobile Platform Architecture Division, where he is responsible for defining security technologies for next-generation Intel platforms. At Intel, he held several management and senior product architecture positions for over 7 years. He also played several senior technical evangelist and chief architect roles on software, mobile, security, and IT-related technologies.

Before joining Intel, Dr. Aissi held senior engineering positions at General Dynamics - Land Systems Division (M1A2 Battle Tank Vehicle Electronics), General Motors Corporation (Embedded Software Center of Excellence), and Applied Dynamics International.

Dr. Aissi earned his B.S, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Senior Member of IEEE, and had served on the editorial and technical boards of several technical journals and conferences.

Dr. Aissi filed over 23 patents in the areas of mobile software and hardware, IT infrastructure and protection, wired and wireless networks security, identity management, mobile communications, and authentication technologies.