ISSE 2010 Europe
Paper on Encryption and Key Management
October 5th - 7th 2010
Maritim Hotel Berlin, Berlin, Germany

This session will provide a primer / overview, and also explore the technical details of this discipline, to explain some basics, pitfalls, best practices and the current state-of-the-art of encryption and key-management. Using this information, attendees will be able to make more informed choices when using cryptography to protect sensitive data. Topics to be discussed include:

• Encryption and Key Management techniques
• Tokenization vs. Encryption - pros and cons
• What are companies doing wrong today
• Why sites like Heartland get hacked despite being PCI-certified
• What are the best practices for encryption and Key Management
• How do companies get from here to the best-practices, and how do auditors help them get there

Speaker Biography

Arshad Noor, is the CTO of StrongAuth, Inc., a Cupertino CA-based company that specializes in enterprise key management. He is the designer and lead-developer of StrongKey, the industry's first open-source Symmetric Key Management System, and the StrongKey Lite Encryption System - the industry's first appliance combining encryption, tokenization, key-management and a cryptographic hardware module. He has written many papers and spoken at many forums on the subject of encryption and key-management over the years.

For more information, visit http://www.isse.eu.com/