As manager of a new operation in futures markets on the Singapore Monetary Exchange (SIMEX), Nick Leeson was soon making millions for Barings by betting on the future direction of the Nikkei Index. His bosses back in London, who viewed with glee his large profits, trusted the whizzkid. Leeson and his wife Lisa seemed to have everything: a salary of £50,000 with bonuses of up to £150,000, weekends in exotic places, a smart apartment and frequent parties and to top it all they even seemed to be very much in love.
 

Nick Leeson is one of the world’s most sought-after speakers. Curiosity, intrigue and sympathy have been the various reactions to this man's incredible life story. The collapse of Barings and Nick Leeson's role in it is one of the most spectacular debacles in modern financial history.

Nick talks frankly about what happened with Barings, the lack of accounting safeguards, his capture and confinement for 9 months in a Frankfurt prison and being sentenced to 6 years by the Singapore court for forgery and cheating.

In order to properly protect your information, it is vital that the three areas of security, namely physical, information and personnel security are considered together and are integrated. If each of these three disciplines are taken in isolation, then there will be gaps for the terrorist, criminal or a hostile competitor to exploit. Building a secure business must have integrated security. A incident management plan and a business continuity plan all linked together. These plans must be tested or they won't work.

Chris Phillips, former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office, will take participants through each of the key areas and how important they work, and are planned,  together.

fakeFCKRemove Organizations often use third-party vendors today to help accomplish their goals and objectives cost effectively, however effective vendor oversight requires ongoing due diligence for existing providers to adjust for changing market and organizational risks.

Many organizations struggle to maintain their contracts and meet regulatory guidelines for due diligence because they don’t follow key steps. Join Margaret Millet from eBay, as she discusses how to:

• Establish standards and processes for monitoring and reviews
• Assign responsibility for the service provider performance management.
• Ensure the process of monitoring outsourced service provider relationships are structured and well defined

Motivation is not about inspiration. There is too much talk about inspirational leaders. There are some inspirational leaders out there, but most of us are not natural inspirers. We can do many basic things well, which will motivate people, and we may even inspire people if we do the basics well enough. But if we set off in search of inspiration we are likely to find ourselves in the land of men in white suits waving their arms on stages, whipping massed audiences into a frenzy of excitement.

Motivation is not about influencing skills, which are largely transactional. They are a one-off event aimed at getting agreement to a specific task or idea. Motivation is much more about building a sustained relationship. You want motivated people to do the right thing consistently without always having to cajole and persuade them. Motivation takes more time and investment but pays high dividends in the long run.

Join William Montgomery as he shares key insight into how the top leaders foster motivation over time.

Cloud computing offers to change the way we use computing with the promise of significant economic and efficiency benefits. The speed of adoption depends on how trust in new cloud models can be established. Trust needs to be achieved, especially when data is stored in new ways and in new locations, including for example different countries.

In this session we will discuss why trust, reliability and security decisions are central to choosing the right model.  Consider for example:

• How easy would it be to lose your service if a denial of service attack is launched within your cloud provider?
• Will you suffer a data security breach when an administrator can access multiple stores of data within the virtualised environment they are controlling?
• Could you lose your service when an investigation into data loss of another customer starts to affect your privacy and data?
• This session aims to stimulate discussion and will consider three areas:
• What is different about cloud?
• What are the new security challenges cloud introduces?
• What can be done and what should be considered further?

As mobile devices increase in complexity, so does managing the information coming in and out of them (and the people who use them!)

Join Nader Henein of RIM, as he leads the conversation of what issues we face both today and possibly tomorrow. Topics of discussion will include, but not be limited to:

• Managing a diverse ecosystem of devices from a central console consistently,  IT policies and the rise of  BYOD (Bring your own device)
• Privacy on the individual level:  urging a move from vendors to build security into their devices and solutions to protect the individual
• The concept of Independent certification to ensure a product does what it says on the box. If a product claims to encrypt, does it do so and if so, does it do so properly.

Perceived as blockers and not adding value, IT and information security is becoming increasingly important as business recovers from the economic turbulence of the past two years. 

This provides Information Technology professionals with a platform to become listened to all the way up to the Board. Key to recognition as "value-add", is the existence of a business aligned strategy, yet many CISOs seem unable to embrace this challenge and deliver success, concentrating on policy based tick-box compliance. Therefore, is our industry not at an inflection point that requires a change in thinking of the modern CISO?