Scandic Copenhagen
Theme: The Business of Security
Attendees: Professionals needing to integrate security and business
Speakers: Paul Kurtz, Pamela Fusco, Lars Mikkelgaard-Jensen
Secure Denmark 2008 brings some of the world’s best security thinkers to Copenhagen on October 7th, 2008 to discuss information security issues that are fundamental to our global economy. The theme of the one day conference is The Business of Security.
Attendees will learn about the latest thinking for developing world class information security programs and using quantifiable metrics to justify security investments. We will explore some of the most important emerging trends that will impact enterprise security and provide executive insights into how the security professional can be successful. This is the one event of 2008 that the Nordic security professional cannot afford to miss.
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Paul Kurtz
Partner, Good Harbor Consulting LLC; Former White House official
Paul Kurtz is the COO of Good Harbor, advising clients on cyber-security and homeland security issues. Kurtz joins Good Harbor, Kurtz after serving as the founding Executive Director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), an advocacy group dedicated to ensuring the privacy, reliability and integrity of information systems through public policy, technology, education and awareness. Prior to joining CSIA, Kurtz most recently was special assistant to the President and senior director for critical infrastructure protection on the White House's Homeland Security Council (HSC), where he was responsible for both physical and cyber security.
Pamela Fusco
Former Executive Vice President, CitiGroup
Pamela Fusco has accumulated over 20 years of substantial experience as an Information Security and Risk Management Professional. Her extensive background and expertise expand globally encompassing numerous facets of enterprise security inclusive of logical, physical, personal, facilities, systems, networks, wireless, compliance and auditing, risk management and forensic investigations.
Lars Mikkelgaard-Jensen
General Manager, IBM Denmark A/S
Since January 2004 Lars Mikkelgaard-Jensen has been General Manager for IBM Denmark. Lars Mikkelgaard-Jensen joined IBM in 1983 and has held a number of Management positions in IBM Denmark and IBM Nordic, including leading the Nordic units responsible for IBM’s large customers in Retail, Distribution and Transport. Previous to his current job, Lars Mikkelgaard-Jensen was responsible for IBM’s Business Partner Organisation in Nordic. In 1995 and 1996 he was based in Paris, working at IBM’s EMEA headquarter.
Robert Whitcher
Global Product Manager, BSI Management Systems
Robert Whitcher is an Information Security and IT professional with over 30 years experience within the IT industry and over 20 years experience in Information Security and Privacy. He is currently the Global Product Manager for IT Service Management (ISO/IEC 20000), Information Security Management (ISO/IEC 27001) and Business Continuity (BS 25999) within the British Standards Institution (BSI). Before joining BSI Rob was employed by BT Syntegra as a security consultant and primarily worked on the Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS) NHS project.
Ulf Munkedal
CEO, FortConsult
Ulf Munkedal started working with IT security in 1997, when he co-founded the Danish security company Neupart & Munkedal. Neupart & Munkedal grew successfully in Scandinavia and moved its headquarter to the US in 2000 where it established itself as VIGILANTe.com Inc. Ulf Munkedal was CEO of VIGILANTe until 2001 and raised more than $16 million from investors. He was very visible in both Danish and US media and in 2000 he was chosen as one of the Top30 CEOs in the US aged 30 years or below.
Here are some of the comments from the attendees of Secure Denmark 2005:
“I came to speak, but I was surprised at how much I learned myself.”
Dave Cullinane, President ISSA, award winning CISO
“One of the best conferences we have ever sponsored.”
Tracy Simmons, Vice President of Marketing, SPI Dynamics
“It was very good to compare our internal security program with what my peers are doing in Denmark as well as internationally.”
Ken Graversen, CISO Danfoss