Invited Speakers

The invited and guest speakers refer to those speakers who have been invited as keynote speakers.  Such speakers are reputable speakers since they are experts in their filed of practice. Invited speakers, furthermore, talk about the international trends in information security products, methodologies and management issues.   These invited speakers are listed below in no particular order:

Speaker
             Topic
Dario Forte - CISM, CFE, Founder, DFLabs Italy and Adj.
Faculty University of Milano (click for info)
Advances in Digital Investigations: Research, open source and commercial tools.
Mark Craddock - Director  - IT Advisory at KPMG (click for info) "Security is dead! Long live security!"
Pria Chetty - Founder: Chetty Law (click for info) Conducting an Organisation Healthcheck on Information Security Legislative Compliance
Karin Höne - Senior Information Security Consultant, Exponant (click for info) SIM/SEM
Kris Budnik: Director, Deloitte (click for info) Managing Technology Risks: Enabling an “Assess Once, Test Once and Satisfy Many” approach
Yvette du Toit - Manager, Technology & Security Risk Services, ERNST & YOUNG®  Advisory Services Ltd  
(click for info)
Penetration testing - What The Hack?
Dr Annamart Nieman - Director, Forensic & Dispute Services, Deloitte & Touche (click for more) Cyberforensics: A Means to an End
Frans Triegaardt - Director at KPMG Forensic (click for more info) The Enemy Within (Pty) Ltd
Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche - Department of Informatics, University of Fribourgd Security Issues of Electronic Voting

In the past ISSA has secured many highly acclaimed international speakers, including:

  • Karin Badenhorst, Ernest & Young, Risk and Advisory Services, South Africa

  • Joss Bernstein, Investec Group Operational Risk, South Africa

  • Kris Budnik, Director: Deloitte Security Services Group, South Africa

  • Rick Cudworth - Partner, KPMG LLP, International Service Leader, Security and Business Continuity - Europe, Middle East and Africa

  • Olaf Du Randt, owner and CEO of Custom-made IT Solutions (CITS), South Africa

  • Flip Erasmus, Business Connexion, South Africa

  • Lynette Flaxman, Telkom, South Africa

  • Leon Fouche, KPMG, South Africa

  • Craig Grieve, KPMG, South Africa

  • Rut Laubscher, Faculty Military Science, Stellenbosch University South Africa

  • Dennis Longley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

  • Buks Lourens, Executive, Group Risk Services, Nedbank Group Limited

  • Mark Lowe, Information Risk Management, KPMG, South Africa

  • Haroon Meer, Sensepost, South Africa

  • Ian Melamed, Principal Consultant, Shaya InFoSec, South Africa

  • Maiendra Moodley, South African Reserve Bank

  • Mervin Pearce, CEO Security Audit & Control Solutions

  • Tana Pistorius, Department of Commercial Law, UNISA, South Africa

  • Rich Schiesser, Senior Technical Planner at Option One Mortgage, USA, Founder and President, RWS Enterprises, Inc. USA

  • Paul Strauss, Manager: Information Security, ABSA, South Africa

  • Alice Sturgeon,  Senior Director, Architecture Domains, Chief Information Officer Branch, Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat, Government of Canada.

  • Graham Teare, Information Risk Management, KPMG, South Africa

  • Stephanie Teufel: Director of the International Institute of Management in Telecommunications (iimt). Fribourg University, Switzerland

  • TC Ting: University of Connecticut, and fellow of the Computing Research Association, United States

  • Charl van der Walt, Sensepost, South Africa
  • Gareth Warner, South African Office of Home Affairs and Treasury

  • Alf Zugenmaier, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH