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A pessimist's view of the Security "industry": A fireside chat

Steve Moyle ( Global Identity Foundation )

Steve is an alumni of the Oxford CS department (well -- the Computing Laboratory) where his primary research was the theory and application of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) - a machine learning technique that is comfortable learning patterns in symbolic logic.

One application of ILP was a collaboration with a "computer-hacker" interested in detecting intrusions.  After a "Eureka" moment in the lab, the results were spun-out into a Database Security Company -- Secerno -- which built database firewalls that learned how to protect Relational Databases.  Secerno was acquired by Oracle Corporation.

His entrepreneurial journey has taken Steve through all aspects of the IT security sector and he has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly.  He remains pessimistic about IT security.

In this fire-side style discussion, he will propose a list of topics for the audience to select from and he will give his views on the topics as time permits.

Speaker bio

Steve has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Adelaide and a DPhil in Computation from the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He has worked in heavy industry including an aluminium smelter, and installing computer control systems in not normally manned north sea gas platforms. In 2003 he founded Secerno, and developed the product, company, and market for the Database Firewall until the company was acquired by Oracle in 2010. Since leaving Oracle in 2012 he has been working on projects in a wide range of sectors.

 

 

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