TCF 2nd Professional Conference
Management & Technology Track
Data Security - Issues & Answers
Abstract : Protection of a computer system's data is integral to its security. Data can be viewed as any information contained or transmitted by the computer, including programs, text, and numeric values. Many system attacks are directed at modifying, deleting, obtaining, or impeding access to data. This seminar will describe four important criteria of data (integrity, reliability, accessibility and confidentiality), as well as its inherent vulnerabilities due to technical and sociological threats. Relevant legislation (such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.) and compliance aspects will be discussed. Real-world examples will be used as illustrations. (This is an important session for anyone who manages or supervises managers of electronic information or writes data-critical applications.) Bio : Dr. Rebecca Mercuri is the President and CTO of Notable Software, Inc. www.notablesoftware.com, a company she founded in 1981. Her present work involves defense, plaintiff, and court support in a broad range of civil, criminal and municipal cases, patent reviews, claim evaluations and security assessments. She has performed data collection and forensic investigation in murder, child pornography and child endangerment for the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, and in business funds misuse for the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics and also as a court-appointed expert.As one of the leading researchers in electronic voting matters, Dr.Mercuri's testimony and opinion has been requested by the U.S. House Science Committee, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the U.K.Cabinet, and in various recount disputes, including Florida 2000's "Bush v. Gore." The election auditing methods she detailed have been implemented in federal and state voting system standards and legislation. Rebecca serves as a Contributing Editor for the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, where she also pens the Security Watch column. |