Steve Armstrong to present at 44con
Steve Armstrong will be presenting at the inaugral 44con to be held 30 Aug - 2nd Sept at the Grange Hotel London. (http://44con.com/conference/talks.html#armstrong)
Steve's presentation will look at how good communication can make individuals more effective when communicating with managers and senior execs.
Communicating with the Boss - don.t talk S, its BS that the C.s understand.
Synopsis:
Business Executives don.t speak security; many don.t understand technical concepts or computer abbreviations so why keep pushing reports full of them?
This light-hearted presentation will demonstrate how technical and security professionals need to learn a new language, .C level BS. (Business Speak), if they are to get their messages across and critically understood by management. In this presentation we will examine traditional countermeasures and demonstrate how hard it is to convey security facts to people that don.t know and often don.t care about information security. We will have examples and tips for communicating difficult and complex issues with the boss; so they not only .get it. but so they actually do something with it.
The author recognises the presentation is up against some cool technical presentations; he can guarantee this presentation wont get you root on a remote server, own every phone at the con or even be able to drink more beer at the bar, but it might help you keep your job....
Biography:
As well as establishing the .Certified Digital Security. standard for SMEs in the UK, Steve also has contributed to the OSSTMM and he rewrote the technical aspects for the worldwide anti-piracy security standard (CDSA) for the film and music industry (someone had to do it).
18 years in Technical Security and a former CESG Listed Advisor, Steve is a Certified Instructor at SANS and is currently the senior Incident Responder and wireless penetration tester at Logically Secure. These roles have him regularly working at all levels from SysAdmins to CISOs as he supports them communicating their concerns, documenting their issues and ultimately dealing with their risks.