[Wylug-discuss] Re: West Yorkshire BCS - Next Meeting

[Robert Speed]

For anyone who's interested;

This might be an interesting take on M$'s ability to
secure systems...

In truth, they are getting better (based on my quick nosey at the numbers
of security warnings/month) at securing systems.

Rob S.



On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, malcolm wrote:

> The next meeting of the West Yorkshire BCS will take place on
> Monday 31st January 2005, 1830
> Details below
>
>
> "Building Secure Systems"
>
> *Speaker:* Dr. Nick Efford, Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Computing,
> University of Leeds.
> *Venue:* Hotel Metropole Leeds.
>
> The increasing use of computer systems in many areas of business and
> government brings with it the risk of unauthorized access to and manipulation
> of these systems with all the consequences that can ensue.
>
> Tonight's talk will look at the principles involved in building secure
> systems and will include discussion of ways that intruders and hackers might
> seek to attack computer systems, together with the methods that can be
> employed to prevent this. Some of these principles will be explained using
> demonstrations.
>
> Dr. Nick Efford has a number of years experience researching and teaching in
> the areas of distributed systems, secure computing and software engineering.
> He is currently developing, in conjunction with Microsoft, course material on
> secure computing for inclusion in taught courses with the School of
> Computing.
>
>
> If you wish to attend this free meeting then please reply to this email so we
> can arrange sufficient refreshments.
>
> Thank you
> Malcolm George
> Publicity Officer
> WYBCS
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