Meet 360is At InfoSecurity Europe 2015

Three Sixty Information Security Ltd will be at InfoSecurity Europe, Olympia, London, 2nd to 4th June 2015. We'll be meeting clients, partners, and friends among the 12000 expected visitors and 330 stands at the show this year.

If you want to discuss the results of a penetration test, arrange a confidential meeting about a  breach, or just need advice on how your organisation should handle the latest bug disclosures, get in touch. We will have technical consultants at the show.

High Performance Computing Advisory Council Conference, CSCS Switzerland, March 23rd - 25th

Lugano, Location of the 2015 HPCAC Conference

Three Sixty will be attending the 2015 High Performance Computing conference held in Lugano, Switzerland from March 23rd to 25th.
The conference brings together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry partners for cross-training and to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements. This year the topics will be:

High Speed Networks
High Performance & Parallel I/O
Communication libraries: MPI, SHMEM, PGAS
GPU computing, CUDA, OpenCL
Big Data 

There will be practical workshops for clustering, networks, troubleshooting, tuning, and optimisation.

Will we see some British companies there this time?

Three Sixty helps UK organisations adopt new, high performance computing technologies and methods. To find out why it is vital that UK organisations do this, talk to us.

Join 360is at PETEX 2014

Come and meet 360is at PETEX where we will be talking about Virtualisation & Cloud, Cyber Security, and High Performance IT projects delivered to the Oil & Gas industries. If you are an IT manager or analyst working in the sector, the conference program will include sessions and seminars on a range of topics:

• 3D workflows
• Corporate data management
• National data repositories
• Modelling at continental scale
• 4D data processing, storage, and visualisation

The Petroleum Exploration Technology Exhibition is in it’s 25th year and runs from Tuesday 18th November to Thursday 20th November this year at the ExCel, London. For more information and to register go to www.petex.info. If you'd like to chat about a project or requirement and are going to PETEX then let us know via info@360is.com, @three_sixty_is, or in the comments section below.

360is at Infosecurity Europe 2014

London Underground Backup Plan

Three Sixty Information Security Ltd will again be at Earls Court, London for the Infosecurity Europe show, 29th April to 1st May 2014. We'll be meeting clients, partners, and friends among the 12000 expected visitors and 329 stands at the show this year.

If you want to discuss the results of a penetration test, arrange a confidential meeting about a  breach, or just need advice on how your organisation should handle the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, get in touch. We will have technical consultants at the show.

London Underground are still running a District Line service during the 48 hour tube strike, but remember you can always take a bus!

360is London Counter Terror Expo

Three Sixty will be present at the 2012 Counter Terror Expo, held at at The Grand Hall, Olympia, West Kensington. Between the 25th and 26th April we shall join with our clients and partners in the exhibition hall, briefings, and break-out sessions.

The event is open to the security industry, armed forces, government, equipment procurement organisations, specifiers, operators / end-users, trade media, and research establishments. There will be 9000 delegates and hundreds of exhibitors. Of the many streams and seminars to attend, we recommend that our clients and partners check the following:


Cyber Security & Electronic Terrorism
26th April 2012 (day 2)

08:00 - 08:45 Coffee/Registration
08:45 - 09:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
09:00 - 09:30 Securing Cyberspace - Challenges and Consequences
09:30 - 10:00 Security and the Cyber threat
10:00 - 10:30 Cyber Attack Analysis
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee / Tea / Exhibition time

11:00 - 11:30 Policing Criminality in Cyberspace
11:30 - 11:55 Social Media - Friend, Foe, or Terrorist threat?
11:55 - 12:20 Corporate Espionage and Cyber Security
12:20 - 12:45 Cyber Security and the Threat to Information
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch / Exhibition time

14:00 - 14:25 Addressing Evolving Cyber Challenges
14:25 - 14:50 Multidimensional threats in the Mainstream
14:50 - 15:15 Smartphone Security Risks and Exploits
15:15 - 15:40 Countering Evolving and Emerging Cyber Security Threats
15:40 - 16:05 Cyber Security Preparedness in the UK
16:05 - 16:30 Panel Discussion
16:30 - 16:45 Close of Cyber Security Conference

Counter Terror Expo is a secure event and all visitor applications must pass through the security vetting procedure to assess their eligibility to attend. If you are unable to attend and would like to speak to one of our consultants about your information security project then please get in touch.

Update 25-04-12: We'll be wearing a red carnation and carrying a copy of the times.

360is at DSEi 2011

Three Sixty will be present at the 2011 Defence & Security Equipment International, held at at the Excel Center, East London, between City Airport and Canary Wharf. Between the 14th and 16th September we shall join with our clients and partners in the exhibition hall, briefings, and break-out sessions.

Just as in 2009, the 2011 the conference will be attended by a range of military, intelligence, government, and private organisations. There will be 25000 delegates and over 1200 exhibitors. Of the many streams and seminars to attend, we recommend that our clients and partners check the following briefing:

Intellect Cyber Security Briefing
Briefing Room Two
15th Sep 2011
14:00 - 16:00
Agenda:

• The threat landscape 
• The impact on the Defence industry
• How SMEs can protect themselves and the supply chain
• Virtual Task Force (industry response to cyber threats)
• Reactions to the UK Government's Cyber Security Strategy

DSEi is a secure event and all visitor applications must pass through the security vetting procedure to assess their eligibility to attend. If you are unable to attend and would like to speak to one of our consultants about your information security project then please get in touch.

Where have all the Products gone?

Today we have a guest blogger! Steve has been a long-standing friend of the company and has been involved in the IT security industry since the early 1990's, where he managed the European Operations of CheckPoint. We caught up at one of Europe's busiest events, the Infosec Show at London Olympia.

Here's what he had to say.

Being the first day of the Infosecurity Show in London my eye was caught by the comments of Security Industry guru, Bruce Schneier, now CEO of BT Counterpane.

Bruce reports hearing an increasingly familiar comment at the RSA conference in San Francisco. "I can't figure out what these security companies do!". I would go further and suggest that, if he could figure out what they did he probably wouldn't want them anyway, because often they are not a solution to a problem he will recognise. Because he is unlikely to be the actual customer. As the recent rash of acquisitions shows, for many IT security vendors their "product" is just a future feature, of another vendors products.

It's like the evolution of the automobile; Bodywork, Lights, Speedo's, Rev counters, Disk brakes, Radios and SatNavs were once all retrofit products now they are standard features.

Here are a few security related examples

• SSL VPN: Unlike MPLS, this was absorbed into the Firewall business, with Firewall vendors selling VPNs and vice versa.
• Hard-disk encryption: A "no brainer" for laptops and Seagate now bundle it (though I still recommend Pointsec).
• TCP/IP for PC's: Not security but I like the example; FTP Software, SUNsoft, Wollongong - all distant memories.
• PKI: Baltimore... need I say more?

In some cases the solutions are so esoteric no one could justify the expense, or so invasive to deploy, the CIO cannot build an ROI anyone really believes.

So, for general business and consumer consumption, IT Security products will further become features; Firewalls in routers, encryption on desktops, PKI & SSL VPN capability built into everything and Antivirus/SPAM increasingly dealt with in the cloud, and so it will continue even applications will become more secure by design.

Saying all this, the next SatNav-like feature will probably still surprise us, maybe not as critical as brakes, but certainly meeting a customer need they didn't realise they had.

IT Security is an enabler, but it is not the application that drives the business. So, I will be at Infosec over the next few days looking for new security "features" that will eventually become part of business solutions. Things that will contribute to my customers bottom line, things like: Virtualisation, Unified Communications, and Smoother Transaction Processing.

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More of Steve's postings are to be found here.