Some comments about cyber security in Africa with special reference to South Africa
Professor Sebastiaan von Solms ( University of Johannesburg )
- 17:00 9th October 2013 ( week 0, Michaelmas Term 2013 )Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
This informal talk will address a number of aspects, including:
* Parliamentary Oversight over Cyber Security
* Ways to provide better cyber security for home users and SMMEs
* The risk of home users for CIIP
* Cyber Security Capacity Building
Speaker bio
Professor Sebastiaan (Basie) von Solms is a Research Professor in the Academy for Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Johannesburg in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also the Director of the Centre for Cyber Security at the University of Johannesburg. Professor von Solms specialises in research and consultancy in the area of Information and Cyber Security, Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, Cyber Crime and other related cyber aspects. He has written more than 100 papers regarding this field - most of which have been published internationally. In addition, he has supervised more than 100 postgraduate students in the ICT field. Professor von Solms is the immediate Past President of IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing (www.ifip.org). He is a Fellow of the Computer Society of South Africa, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP).Share this:
