Keynote presentations
Security Intelligence - Forensics and Big Data; can we be intelligently proactive?
Scott Ainslie
Principal Consultant, Global Technology Services, IBM Australia
In the last ten years we have witnessed significant change in the threat landscape, both from an adversarial awareness to a consumer driven technology maelstrom. The commoditisation of technology coupled with significant workload prioritisation and mobility demands has created an environment of enormous data production and storage. An outcome of threat awareness and increased criminal activity has seen an unprecedented need for a proactive forensic capability that must operate in near real time providing a significant challenge for large and medium sized organisations alike. The ever increasing number of breaches reflects the growing list of vulnerabilities that confront security barriers mandating a need for techniques that provide smarter, faster and intuitive analysis in an intelligent manner.
Brief Biography:
Scott Ainslie has an outstanding career record of over 20 years with government and industry organisations where he developed and acquired the majority of skills for which he is sought today. His extensive experience with the Defence intelligence and government security community is still recognised by the close association which he currently maintains through participation in its outreach and research programs. Scott brings considerable information security risk management knowledge garnered across both government and corporate sectors in a global context. He has developed a broad knowledge of regulatory compliance and key control requirements specific to the governance of information security across diverse and complex enterprise environments. Whilst moving to a more strategic environment he maintains technology insight through his PCI DSS qualification as a QSA and global connections with the forensic community. Scott is a member of multiple security, risk, intelligence, and information security related organisations in Australia and overseas, including a current role as the President of the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO). His active membership in these wide ranging communities provides an ideal platform for applying a multi-domain risk based approach to information security management across industry and government sectors.
The Battle-Line between “Cyber Libertarians” and “Cyber Cops”: The Changing Face of Canadian Cyber Law
Dr. Barry Cartwright
School of Criminology and International CyberCrime Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
This presentation contemplates two recent legislative initiatives by the Canadian federal government—both intended to meet the challenges posed by the rapid expansion of cyberspace and the concomitant increase in cybercrime—and the debate between “cyber libertarians” and “cyber cops” that has been set in motion by these legislative initiatives. The first piece of legislation, the Copyright Act of 2012, revamped Canadian copyright law in an effort to address copyright issues in cyberspace. The legislation introduced concepts such as digital networks, digital memory, digital copies and digital locks, clarified the liability of ISPs, and broadened the definitions of telecommunication, publication, public performances and performer rights. It enabled courts to award statutory damages ranging from $100 to $5,000 for non-commercial copyright infringement and $500 to $20,000 for commercial copyright infringement, and required ISPs to provide copyright holders with the electronic location of individuals or commercial enterprises who had engaged in copyright infringement. The second piece of legislation, known as Bill C-13, the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, is presently before parliament. The thrust of Bill C-13 is to update the Canadian Criminal Code and the Canada Evidence Act, creating a number of new criminal code offences, including “sexting;” manufacturing, importing, possessing or selling devices designed to facilitate theft of telecommunications signals; obtaining or intercepting a computer service; gaining unlawful access to a computer system; and recording, storing and disseminating child pornography or hate propaganda. The proposed legislative changes would create a new series of indictable offences, some carrying potential sentences of between two and ten years of imprisonment. It would also enable judges to issue warrants to seize digital publications, representations or recordings of intimate images, and to order the deletion of intimate images and hate propaganda. These recent legislative initiatives have been endorsed enthusiastically by politicians, police and other government officials, who argue that greater policing and enforcement powers are necessary to deal properly with new variants of cybercrime, or old variants of crime that have migrated to cyberspace. On the other hand, these initiatives have met with scepticism and dismay on the part of cyber libertarians and the denizens of cyberspace, who view the Internet as an intellectual commons, and advocate for a “hands off” approach.
Brief Biography:
Dr. Barry Cartwright is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, and a member of the university’s International CyberCrime Research Centre. His areas of interest include cyber-research, cyberbullying, and digital copyright law.