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Spotlight on eCommerce & Internet Security Date:��November
27th - 29th, 2000 Conference Agenda |
| Monday 27th November | |
| 14.00 onwards | Welcome desk open for registration |
| 19.00 | Welcome drinks & buffet, Les Ambassadeurs |
| Tuesday 28th November | |
| 07.00 - 08.00 | Breakfast 'Open Meetings', Les Ambassadeurs |
| 08.00 - 09.15 | Introduction
& Round Table 1 - "PKI: the time is now?",
Edouard VII - A NSS Group will introduce this session by providing an industry appraisal and update to last years PKI report launched at our Carcassonne event. PKI has been one of the up-and-coming security solutions for quite some time now. It is now mature enough to be available on a number of different levels but it still seems to attract the most basic and problematic questions: Is it necessary? Is it cost-efficient? How is PKI technology deployed across large organisations with a raft of non PKI-enabled applications? Do you do it in house, or outsource to one of the many managed PKI services? If you implement it now will you be sorry if in year or so when an entire batch of competing solutions surpass it? What is the value for money ratio for the PKI solutions available today? How easy are they to manage? All these and more will be explored by our panel of industry experts representing all profiles and levels of industry where it comes to PKI implementations and PKI-loathing. We expect a definite description of the developments in this field in the last year and the definite verdict for the future of this technology. |
| 09.15 - 10.30 | Round-table
II - "Intrusion detection: beyond the lock & key",
Edouard VII - A In networking and telecommunications security is the eternal frontier. We keep coming back to it and getting the same set of questions that are never answered, all based on what else needs to be done for systems to be truly secure. If the traditional firewall is the lock and key to your online house, the Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is the burglar alarm that reacts when somebody gets beyond the lock. How do the hackers counteract Intrusion Detection? Is Intrusion Detection just another layer of nuisance for them or is it a serious threat? This session will be hotly debated by professionals from all parts of the security universe discussing the issues surrounding Intrusion Detection and how efficient it actually is. |
| 10.30 - 10.45 | Coffee break, Belv�d�re Terrace |
| 10.45 - 12.30 | Three individually scheduled press briefing sessions for each vendor, Le Monte-Carlo |
| 12.30 - 13.45 | Lunch, Les Ambassadeurs |
| 13.45 - 14.30 | Round-table
III - "VPNs: So far, virtual indeed" Edouard VII -
A Infonetics Research introduces this session imparting new findings from their latest VPN Study. Virtual Private Networks have been at the top of the list of up-and-coming technologies for almost half a decade. But now that VPNs are actually here, there are serious questions to be answered about their implementation. Companies have to decide if it is better to build them in-house or to outsource them. Also, there is the question of choosing between network-based VPNs or CPE-based ones. These questions are intertwined, and to some degree have been the reason that VPN deployments have gone slower than many people in the industry expected. Also, a new breed of VPN service providers is emerging, which hopes to accelerate the VPN market by focusing on security, sorting out some of the complexity for end users, and providing assistance to other service providers looking to develop successful VPN services. All these issues are both stimulating the growth of the VPN market and hindering further, potentially explosive, growth. Our group of leading industry representatives will use this session to explore the future for VPNs. |
| 14.30 - 16.30 | Refreshments & final three scheduled one-to-one press briefing sessions with vendors, Le Monte-Carlo |
| 16.30 - 17.30 | Press 'Open Meeting' sessions continued, Le Monte-Carlo |
| 19.15 | Pre-dinner cocktails and dinner, Les Ambassadeurs, followed by an evening at the Monte-Carlo Casino |
| Wednesday 29th November | |
| 08.30 - 09.30 | Breakfast |
| 09.00 - 09.45 | Round-table
IV - "The promise of optimised infrastructure",
Edouard VII - A The vendors and Service Providers have been adding to the Service Provider infrastructure tirelessly for the last twenty year with scant regard for making the actual elements of the system work in harmony. At the time when even the most dramatic improvements in throughput and control can not fully eradicate the faults built into the infrastructure isn't it time we optimized how it all works together? Vendors and Service Providers will explore the proposed "Blueprint for an Optimized Service Provider Infrastructure" white paper and discuss the possible implications it might hold for the industry as well as outlining the best routes for implementing it. This debate will establish both what we missed in the past and what we must set in place for the future if we are to use fully the resources already embedded into the Service Provider infrastructure |
| 09.45 - 10.30 | Round-table
V - "Dotcoms: the year of living dangerously",
Edouard VII - A The previous year has been the most exhilarating for the dotcom industry and the most dramatic one at the same time. Where the first half of the year has seen unprecedented growth, the second half has resulted in massive accumulated failures and doubts for the future of the entire sector. At the same time, in contrast to the overall trend some obvious successes are shining through this gloom. Some specific factors have contributed both to the failures and success of this buoyant market. There's widespread feeling in this volatile industry that service providers have a significant role to play in fulfilling the dotcom success story. Our panel of industry representatives will try and establish why the dotcoms are failing and what the service providers can do to help them survive and succeed, at the same time analyzing just how are the vendors helping the service providers in achieving this. Their verdict should shed some light on just how can this shaky ground be dangerous for most and fruitful for some. Or, maybe they will establish that there are no real success stories after all in the year when dotcoms came tumbling down? |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break, Belv�d�re Terrace |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Press 'Open Meeting' sessions continued, Le Monte-Carlo |
| 12.30 - 13.45 | Lunch, Les Ambassadeurs Close of event |
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