IQPC IT Security Exchange, March 10-12, 2013

I wanted to wrap up the IQPC IT Security Exchange that I attended this week in St. Pete, Florida. This was a good solid conference, covering trends and technologies. There were about three dozen security executives from all industries, and most of the talks were given by CISOs, regarding the topics that we are all concerned about: Big Data, BYOD, Cloud, CoIT, Breaches, Threat Intelligence… There were about 6-10 vendors sponsoring the event, and most of them were ones I had not been aware of. This is the kind of event where costs are kept low and you spend 2 days of discussing security with peers, over three days.

I gave my talk, Big Data: Big Brother or Big Deal? on Sunday. Find links below to the presentation.

SlideShare presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/nullsession/bigdata031013b

You can also download the presentation as (PDF) or with notes (PDF).

Here are some of the interesting topics that I found useful:

• Communicating Risk to the Board
• Risk Management
• Security Awareness (and metrics!)
• BYOD and moving IT to the cloud
• Maturing the Security Program