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e-Crime Mid Year Meeting - 5th October, 2010 - London UK - More details
e-Crime Middle East - 29th November, 2010 - Abu Dhabi, UAE - More details
e-Crime India - 22nd & 23rd February, 2011 - Mumbai, India - More details
e-Crime Congress - 16th & 17th March, 2011 - London UK - More details
e-Crime Middle East Mid Year Meeting - 26th May, 2011 - Dubai, UAE - More details
e-Crime Cloud Security Forum - 8th June, 2011  - London, UK - More details

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Event Overview: 

The key themes for this forum are based on the results of the annual e-Crime survey which, in 2009 revealed

1. The number one external threat that security strategists are currently most worried about, in terms of their ability to defend against it and the impact on their organisation is; “Attack on the network aiming to compromise customer data or business sensitive data”
2. 50% of IT security professionals do not believe their organisation is sufficiently protected against malware when considering internal Internet usage trends, attack vectors, potential targets, security update procedures, and the risks associated with compromise to your business.

This event welcomes in excess of 175 senior decision makers from private sector industries that include Banking, Insurance, Real Estate, Telecoms and ISPs, Retail, Media, Legal, Gambling, Pharmaceuticals, Transport and Logistics, Defence, Manufacturing. For further information on speakers, sponsors, and delegates click here.

The agenda at a glance:

• Optimising IT security and risk management processes
• Adopting effective e-Crime countermeasures
• Eliminating weak points and protecting key targets
• Limiting inherent business technology risks; Enhancing protective capabilities 

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Date: 29th November, 2010 Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE Web: www.e-crimecongress.org/middleeast

• Developing security and compliance strategy
• Ensuring frameworks continue to defend against a changing threat
• Maintaining data security and meeting compliance requirements 

 
Key Facts:

The combined economies of the Middle East have continued to grow. Rapid broadband expansion and eager adoption of the latest that technology has to offer, particularly in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) has led to substantial e-commerce growth. 

Today organisations are relying on their information systems more than ever and information security is gaining major importance. Some estimates place the Middle East region’s annual information security expenditure second only to the to that of the United States.

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Event Overview: 

e-Crime India serves the needs of decision makers working within global business and government, providing targeted information to the market on how best to manage threats and overcome challenges during the development of an e-enabled economy and digital business environment.

This event brings together 250 delegates responsible for IT, security, risk, fraud, and investigations from a cross-section of industries including finance, telecommunications, and manufacturing - as well as heads and directors from leading regional and international law enforcement agencies. For further information on speakers, sponsors, and delegates click here.

The agenda at a glance:

• Introducing greater information security efficiency at enterprise level
• Ensuring incident response are structured to deal with emerging threats to business reputation
• Reducing risk of data loss posed by business processes, network, and employee focused threats
• Managing the use and spread of always‐on, network ready devices including smart phones, large capacity removable media, USB sticks and other business tools 

 
Key Facts:

There are 81,000,000 Internet users in India – a rise of 1,150% since 2000. India has the third largest number of Internet users in Asia after China and Japan. The website of India’s ICICI Bank is the fourth most visited banking services site in the world and the website of India’s HDFC Bank is the fifth most visited banking services site in the world. On average India is adding 12 million GSM subscribers a month taking the current total of mobile users to in excess of 391 million. 

Both domestic and international organisations operating within India are relying on their information systems more than ever. As a result information security is gaining major importance. Organisations in India perceive cyber crime as a greater threat to their business than physical crime. Executives indicate that loss of revenue ranks as the highest key cost associated with cyber crime, with loss of market capitalisation as their second-highest cost. Other costs for Indian businesses include damage to their brand and reputation, loss of current and prospective customers, and the cost of restoring services.

Vendor Opportunities: 

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Event Overview: 

Now in its 9th year, Europe’s leading event on cyber-crime offers authoritative content from an international perspective on how global businesses, government, and law enforcement agencies are tackling electronic threats.

Over 550 delegates attend from the public and private sector, with over 40 countries are represented annually making this the premier networking event for security, IT, fraud, investigations, CERT, audit, forensics, and compliance professionals working in business, government and law enforcement. For further information on speakers, sponsors, and delegates click here.

The agenda at a glance:

• Assessing the implications for security strategy of evolving breeds of crimeware including trojans, bot-nets, rootkits
• Ensuring exiting practices and policies are leveraged as effectively as possible to maximise efficiency
• Identifying where existing processes need to be improved in order to remediate against emerging attack patterns
• Prioritising investment in tactics and technologies that respond to both the changing e-Crime landscape and regulatory requirements
• Measuring the bottom-line impact of cyber-attack profiles and build suitable and repeatable proactive response mechanisms

  
Vendor Opportunities: 

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Event Overview: 

e-Crime Middle East is specifically designed for senior professionals, strategic decision makers, and technical specialists from global businesses and government departments across the United Arab Emirates.

This event brings together 150 delegates from global and regional businesses, as well as heads and directors from leading regional and international law enforcement agencies. For further information on speakers, sponsors, and delegates click here.

The agenda at a glance:

This Mid-Year Meeting delivers valuable insights, critical analysis, and timely solutions on a range of important issues. The agenda provides delegates with practical information on how best to enhance e-Crime prevention, detection and response frameworks in 2010, answering the questions:

• How are cyber criminal tactics changing, and what does that mean for customers' and employees' security in the year ahead?
• From hardware to software, how are bleeding edge attacks targeting enterprise digital assets and e-commerce operations - and how can they be stopped?
• What key challenges are emerging for current security architectures and threat mitigation frameworks, and how can the gaps be closed?
• More details

 
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Event Overview: 

In response to market demand the e-Crime Cloud Security Forum has been established to provide critical advice and guidance on risk mitigation and security assurance in virtualised, as-a-Service, and cloud computing environments. 

A recent in-house survey of over 130 industry contacts has revealed that over 75% of these are either moving, or planning to move, aspects of their IT to 'the cloud'. With an urgent requirement for advice and guidance concerning the consequent security, compliance, and legal requirements that arise when adopting new technology paradigms this forum delivers unrivalled insight and practical information on how best to mange the key issues relevant to both the enterprise and the IT infrastructure.

This event will bring together 200 CFOs, CIOs, strategic business unit leaders, heads of IT security, IT managers, and other key stakeholders from a cross section of global businesses, government departments, and military defence. For further information on speakers, sponsors, and delegates click here.

The agenda at a glance:

• Infrastructure, risk, continuity, and resilience: Frameworks for managing the 'business as usual' implications of cloud platforms and their operational models
• Compliance, legislation, and data in the Cloud: Dealing with the double-edged sword of meeting regulatory requirements and avoiding unwanted access to information
• Subcontracting and accountability: Assessing the critical gaps and 'grey areas' in contractual obligations when working with 3rd party suppliers
• Audits, e-discovery, and investigations: Data dynamics and their impact on corporate governance - the key considerations from IT logs to the help-desk
• Processing data and information in the Cloud: Models for the effective integration of provider and customer security, and holistic risk mitigation
• Technological evolutions and risk impact: The implications of emerging standards and capabilities for interoperability and portability of data between cloud systems
• More details

 
Key Facts:

The benefits of the cloud have brought software investment into sharp focus at a time when IT project budgets have come to a standstill.  Storage requirements are growing. Purchasing departments are under pressure to cut costs. Spending is restricted. Justifying investment in proprietary software is increasingly difficult. The Total Cost of Ownership is being scrutinised more than ever before. The days of seeing software as an asset, some suggest, are over.

Against this backdrop, the opportunity to reduce capital expenditure and move to dynamically scalable maintenance-free, managed services that can deliver rapid innovation to end-users is hugely attractive. However, cloud adoption raises significant questions for security, risk, compliance and regulatory departments. 

Vendor Opportunities: 

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PCI Frankfurt - 12th October, 2010 - Frankfurt, Germany - More details
PCI Europe - 25th November, 2010 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - More details
PCI Abu Dhabi - 29th November 2010, Abu Dhabi, UAE - More details
PCI Dubai - 26th May, 2011 - Dubai, UAE - More details
PCI London - 11th July, 2011 - London, UK - More details

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Event Overview:

For the second year in a row, PCI Frankfurt returns to assist the payment card community in Germany by providing a comprehensive analysis of how best to meet requirements for protecting cardholder information. In addition to providing solutions and innovative techniques for reducing the risks of fraud, identity theft, and security breaches, the event will also look at how security compliance can help defend against evolving threats rather than just answering single requirements. By providing strategies which help delegates approaching IT and transaction environments in the most intelligent way, this event helps matching solution paths to wider business goals. 

Over 200 delegates tasked with implementing and managing compliance within payment card security will attend this event, bringing together large national and multinational merchants, acquirers, payment service providers and card schemes.

The agenda at a glance:

• Reinterpreting the PCI DSS requirements to extract business value beyond compliance
• Reducing the scope and complexity of compliance to facilitate a risk-based and security-led approach to storing credit card data
• Integrating compliance programmes into your security strategy to reduce unnecessary expenditure
• Thinking about security on an enterprise-wide level and securing data assets beyond credit card data
• Building effective frameworks of communication between key stakeholders
• Understanding the evolving roles of QSAs and acquirers

 
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Event Overview: 

Launched in 2007, this pan-European event provides invaluable guidance to those tasked with implementing and managing security compliance programs such as the PCI DSS. This year it takes place one month after the Euro PCI Council meeting in Barcelona.

Over 300 delegates attended the forum in 2008 from merchants, acquirers, payment service providers and card schemes. For further information on speakers, sponsors, and delegates click here.

The agenda at a glance:

• Ensuring that security compliance defends against evolving threats rather than just answering business requirements.
• Approaching IT and transaction environments to reach ‘security’ in the most intelligent way Matching solution paths to wider business goals.
• Taking a risk based approach to limit the scope of compliance

 
Vendor Opportunities: 

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Date: 29th November, 2010
 
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Web: http://www.pci-portal.com/pci-middleeast/

For the thrid time, PCI Abu Dhabi returns to assist the payment card community in the Middle East by providing a comprehensive analysis of how best to meet requirements for protecting cardholder information. In addition to providing solutions and innovative techniques for reducing the risks of fraud, identity theft, and security breaches, the event will also look at how security compliance can help defend against evolving threats rather than just answering single requirements. By providing strategies which help delegates approaching IT and transaction environments in the most intelligent way, this event helps matching solution paths to wider business goals. 

Over 150 delegates tasked with implementing and managing compliance within payment card security will attend this event, bringing together large national and multinational merchants, acquirers, payment service providers and card schemes. For further information on speakers, sponsors, and delegates click here.

The agenda at a glance:

• Implementing best practices in information security compliance and vulnerability management
• Integrating compliance and security strategy to increase efficiency and decrease risk at enterprise level
• Reducing the scope and complexity of regulatory requirements by taking a risk-management approach to storing and handling sensitive data
• Creating business value from compliance standards such as the PCI DSS and ISO 27001
• Ensuring the security of card payments and limiting card fraud through e-commerce and related payments channels
• Minimising the risk of data loss posed by business processes as well as threats that target the network and employees
• Maximising efficiency during the audit process across databases, applications, systems and networks for compliance and vulnerability assessment
• Preparing for the implications of new payments technology including e- and m-commerce platforms
• Building effective frameworks for communication between key stakeholders internally and externally
• Understanding the evolving roles of QSAs and external auditors in order to meet PCI DSS audit requirements on time and within budget
• More details

 
Vendor Opportunities:  

Speak in plenary session, host an education seminar, or take an exhibit stand. Request a sponsor pack for more details.

For the thrid time, PCI Dubai returns to assist the payment card community in the Middle East by providing a comprehensive analysis of how best to meet requirements for protecting cardholder information. In addition to providing solutions and innovative techniques for reducing the risks of fraud, identity theft, and security breaches, the event will also look at how security compliance can help defend against evolving threats rather than just answering single requirements. By providing strategies which help delegates approaching IT and transaction environments in the most intelligent way, this event helps matching solution paths to wider business goals. 

Over 150 delegates tasked with implementing and managing compliance within payment card security will attend this event, bringing together large national and multinational merchants, acquirers, payment service providers and card schemes. For further information on speakers, sponsors, and delegates click here.

The agenda at a glance:

• Implementing best practices in information security compliance and vulnerability management
• Integrating compliance and security strategy to increase efficiency and decrease risk at enterprise level
• Reducing the scope and complexity of regulatory requirements by taking a risk-management approach to storing and handling sensitive data
• Creating business value from compliance standards such as the PCI DSS and ISO 27001
• Ensuring the security of card payments and limiting card fraud through e-commerce and related payments channels
• Minimising the risk of data loss posed by business processes as well as threats that target the network and employees
• Maximising efficiency during the audit process across databases, applications, systems and networks for compliance and vulnerability assessment
• Preparing for the implications of new payments technology including e- and m-commerce platforms
• Building effective frameworks for communication between key stakeholders internally and externally
• Understanding the evolving roles of QSAs and external auditors in order to meet PCI DSS audit requirements on time and within budget
• More details

 
Vendor Opportunities:  

Speak in plenary session, host an education seminar, or take an exhibit stand. Request a sponsor pack for more details.

Date: 11th July, 2011

Location: London, UK

Web: www.pci-portal.com/pci-london/

Event Overview: 

PCI London provides critical advice for senior decision makers on how to ensure information security compliance and implement payment security best practices in order to minimise complexity, reduce risk, create value, and keep costs low. Offering practical insights on how best to protect customer and payment data in a constantly changing business environment, this event is specifically designed to help meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving landscape.

PCI London is designed specifically for professionals who are responsible for managing key functions within global and national organisations that include banks, merchants and acquirers, such as information security, IT, risk, compliance, fraud, audit, QA, policy, and governance. This community meeting brings together an exclusive audience in order to discuss the most efficient and cost effective solutions for overcoming the key security and compliance challenges faced today.

The agenda at a glance:

• Approaching IT and transaction environments to reach ‘security’ in the most intelligent way
• Matching solution paths to wider business goals in order to ensure ‘security’ does not mean answering single compliance or business requirements
• Understanding issues created by ‘grey areas’; avoiding delay to, and increased expense of, compliance programs
• Managing technical audits; understanding the depth necessary to reach compliance
• Creating wider business value for internal customers and integrating compliance into existing enterprise programmes.

 
Vendor opportunities: 

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Event Overview: 

Now in its 6th year, The IP Risk and Security Congress is the acknowledged forum for intellectual property risk and security management online. The event has a reputation for providing cutting edge solutions in the area of contemporary intellectual property risk in the electronic environment.

Over 200 delegates, from Heads of Intellectual Property to Internet Investigations specialists, attend each year from the world’s largest brand owners in order to learn about the latest IP risk management strategies. For further information on speakers, sponsors, and delegates click here.

The agenda at a glance:

• Best practice for IP custodians when dealing with challenges across a broad spectrum of online platforms including social networking sites, blogs, and virtual worlds
• Proactively defending online presence through a consistent and repeatable strategy
• Dealing with specific threats including brand impersonation, click fraud, domain-jacking, and web site traffic diversion divert revenue to illegitimate sales channels 

 
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Event Overview: 

Inevitably, requirements to provide relevant and responsive data to internal and external parties will increase. 

Given the rising tide of complex international litigation, increased regulatory scrutiny, mounting data privacy and compliance requirements, the impact of these factors on cross-border investigations, and the rapidly expanding data universe, it is no exaggeration to say that large organisations are under more pressure than ever to get e-discovery right from the very start. 

It is clear that the issues and challenges inherent in producing targeted information are really just indicators of far wider problems - at the root of which is the collision between business processes, commercial imperatives or requirements, and enterprise data sets.

Each year this event welcomes over 200 key stakeholders from global businesses and legal firms including senior managers of legal, technical architecture, commercial dispute resolution, global compliance investigations, electronic case management, computer and data forensics, counter fraud, IT security, IT operations, risk management, audit, investigations, litigation, and corporate governance. For further information on speakers, sponsors, and delegates click here.

The agenda at a glance:

• How can challenges posed by the creation of, storage of, and need to retrieve data be met to ensure that information can be controlled and accessed in a way that meets relevant, and potentially conflicting, internal and external requirements?  
• How can a solution reduce inherent business risks by taking into account information that is created now as well as in the future by existing and emerging technology platforms?
  

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Publication Overview:

Payment card fraud has developed rapidly in the past few years. Criminal techniques are evolving quickly and efficiently to evade detection. It's critical that organisations and individuals recognise that attackers are changing techniques and launching targeted attacks. 

For the first time AKJ Associates will be surveying the 3,000 conference attendees from PCI events in order to ascertain the challenges they face. This will provide key information for experienced professionals that is of strategic and practical use and reflects the concerns of key stakeholders in the global 21st Century economy.

International survey audience: 

Related senior professionals representing large organisations with job titles including: IT managers, IT security mangers, PCI DSS programme managers, QSAs, Merchants, acquirers, and payments service providers.

Vendor opportunities: 

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