Security Professionals: Plumbers of Trust

March 22, 2012 (at 1:30 p.m.) in Defense & Management

Trust is a foundation of security, so that it is often overlooked. The presentational analyses trust from the perspective of information security professional. It discusses what trust is, how it is structured and what can be done about it, beyond the familiarity of trust assessment or trust management. As a result, participants will develop professional insight into trust.

Piotr Cofta

Dr Piotr Cofta is managing Security Transformation, having moved from his role as a Chief Researcher, Identity and Trust. Before that, he has been working for many years for Nokia and for Media Lab Europe, concentrating on the relationship between trust, risk, technology and society.

Dr Cofta is a contributor to several international standards; he publishes and speaks frequently. He is an author of several patents and publications, from areas such as trust management, identity and privacy, digital rights management and electronic commerce. He is a CISSP and a senior member of IEEE.

Website: piotr.cofta.net