Transition Security & Application Forum (TSAF)

Program [1:30 PM - 6:00 PM]

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1:30 PM	Registration & Welcome Coffee
2:00 PM	Opening Address: Transition Speaker: Jonathan Juay, Regional Managing Director, Transition Systems Pte Ltd
2:15 PM	Keynote Address: GIS: Which is the bigger culprit - Ignorance or Incompetence? Speaker: Sanjay Bavisi, President, EC Council
3:00 PM	F5: Balancing Act on Application Delivery Speaker: Lim Chin-Keng, Director of Field System Engineering and Partner Enablement, F5 Networks
3:45 PM	Coffee Break \| Viewing of showcase
4:00 PM	Panel Discussion: Defending the Frontier with The Gates, The Guards, and The Guns (The 3G of Defense) Moderator: Sanjay Bavisi, President, EC Council
4:45 PM	Palo Alto Networks: The Role of Next-Gen Firewall in Application Delivery Speaker: Mr. P.K. Lim, Vice President of Sales for Asia Region, Palo Alto Networks
5:15 PM	Net IQ: Making Information Security Matter in a Harsh Economic Climate Speaker: Haf Saba, Senior Solutions Specialist, APAC, NetIQ
6:00 PM	Close \| Lucky Draw

Program Details

Keynote Address:
GIS: Which is the bigger culprit - Ignorance or Incompetence?

Synopsis:
One common flaw in most organizations today is the challenge in countering the gaps in the information security (GIS). Both ignorance and incompetence are major contributing factors of “GIS”, often exists primarily due to the mismatch between IT security expenditure and IT security posture of the organization. The session briefs the target audience on the state of the information security industry by taking into consideration the inputs from the past, looking at the present and forecasting the future. It highlights how some of the most common defensive tactics deployed by many organizations, often deemed as adequate, can be easily breached. This presentation intends to ring alarm bells about the high level of ignorance and incompetence of many organizations when it comes to information security.

Panel Discussion:
Defending the Frontier with The Gates, The Guards, and The Guns (The 3G of Defense)

Synopsis:
This session aims to discuss the 3 main defensive components for any network. There can never be a secure network, but there are measures that can be adopted and strategies that may be deployed, that can minimize threats and breaches. Panelist will give a good insight to each component, and explain the co-relation between each other.

Speaker:
Sanjay Bavisi,
President of EC-Council

Biodata:
Mr. Sanjay Bavisi is the Co-Founder and President of EC-Council which was formed post the 9/11 incident where issues of cyber terrorism were raised in the forefront of security of nations at large.

Jay, as he is popularly known, is an Information Security Evangelist and Architect, and regularly shares the platform with law and policy makers at various international conferences and seminars. His key expertise is in the area of Ethical Hacking, Information Assurance and Computer Forensics with a special focus in the government space internationally.

His audiences include executives of multinational corporations like Dow Jones, Lloyd’s, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Shell, HSBC, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Standard Chartered, American Express, MCIS – Zurich, Schipol Airport Authority, KPMG, Deloitte Consulting, Trend Micro, IDC, S.E.A. Insurance, Sara Lee Philippines, American Express Bank Philippines, Makati City Hall, Philippine Airlines, Royal Australian Air Force, Government of Zhuhai, China Mobile, A&T Solutions, and many more.

Sanjay is a distinguished and popular speaker on Information Security, and presents regularly at Interop Las Vegas, CSI, RSA, Techno Security, and Techno Forensics. Jay was also the Chairman of the Keynote Hackers Panel at Infosecurity Europe 2008, the Closing Keynote Speaker for ITWeb Security Summit, South Africa, and also the combined Keynote Speaker for Techno Security/ Hacker Halted USA 2008. He has also keynote MEITSEC, SX2008 Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, Hacker Halted Japan, and Secure World DC. He had previously been invited to speak at various international events in the United States of America, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Mexico, France, Greece, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia, Thailand, India and China.

Sanjay was also the keynote speaker at the National Information Technology Conference in Bangkok, Thailand and at the International Computer Hacking and Forensics Symposium in Hong Kong and Chairman of Asia Pacific Roundtable Forum on Cyber Terrorism & Cyber Crime in Malaysia. He has been invited to present to professionals by the Institution of Charted Accounts in England and Wales, Deloitte London and also to speak at Microsoft France and the University of Miami, to name a few.

He has appeared regularly on several local and international television shows and print media. His views have been sought by internationally acclaimed publications including The Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Gazette and The Economic Times. His views were also featured by ABC News, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston and Gulf News.

Having always championed Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures, Sanjay is also a prolific writer, having contributed regular articles, and currently a contributing author for an information security handbook due this year by El Selvier.

He was the conference Chairman for the Inaugural International “Hacker Halted” Conference which was officiated by the Honorable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Malaysia.

Sanjay Bavisi is a law graduate from the University of Wales, College of Cardiff, having an LLB (Hons), Barrister – at – Law from Middle Temple, London.

F5: Balancing Act on Application Delivery

Synopsis:
Application delivery delays, inefficiencies, and failures can cost millions of dollars in terms of wasted budgets, damage to company reputation, system and application downtime, legal liability, and lost opportunities.

Application delivery networking provides the most intelligent and adaptable solution to secure, optimize, and deliver applications, enabling organizations to effectively and competitively run their business. A unified application delivery infrastructure delivers total control, vision, and flexibility into application security, performance, and delivery. The result? Greater business agility and successful outcomes for the lifeblood of today's organization -- the application itself.

Secure - It's not just about stopping attacks -- it's also about simultaneously serving legitimate users.
Fast -Improve their application performance, increase the capacity of their existing infrastructure, lower infrastructure costs, and accelerate their applications.
Available - Rich static and dynamic load balancing methods, including Dynamic Ratio, Least Connections, and Observed Load Balancing, which tracks dynamic performance levels of servers in a group. This ensures that all sites are always on, more scalable, and easier to manage than ever before.

Speaker:
Lim Chin-Keng,
Director of Field System Engineering and Partner Enablement, F5 Networks

Biodata:
Chin has more than 17 years of experience in IT, eight of those years in IT consulting. With keen understanding of distributed computing, he has architected complex applications using open technologies like Java, CORBA and Web Services, for wireless, internet and intranet services. He has also expounded these ideas at events such as IDC, Intel, XML One, Computer World Conference, Sun Technology Conference, HP Developer Conference and BEA User Conferences. Chin specialises in enterprise architecture for efficient delivery of applications, and network infrastructure design.

Currently in F5 Networks, he is responsible for adoption of application and data delivery solutions in APAC.

Chin came from Borland Software where has took on Director of Borland’s Product Sales Management for APAC. The Borland solutions managed include application lifecycle management and middleware.

Prior to this role, Chin led a team of solution managers and consultants in BEA and helped companies to define and architect distributed application infrastructure. Chin is also a technology evangelist and key spokesman for BEA in the region.

Chin played Project Manager and Solution Architect in HP Consulting and Integration. Some of the key systems he implemented include high-speed campus LAN/WAN infrastructure, security and firewall, server and network management, multi-tier application development, and enterprise collaboration.

Chin holds a B. Eng in Computer Engineering (First Class) from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Palo Alto Networks: The Role of Next-Gen Firewall in Application Delivery

Synopsis:
The Internet now accounts for the majority of traffic traversing enterprise networks. And it's not just web surfing. The Internet has spawned a new generation of applications being accessed by network users for both personal and business use. Many of these applications help improve user and business productivity, while other applications consume large amounts of bandwidth, pose needless security risks, and increase business liabilities.

Traditional firewalls are unable to identify or effectively control any of these Internet applications. That's because legacy firewalls classify traffic based only on ports and protocols and no longer an effective security solution to manage the risks and rewards of today's Internet applications in the enterprise.

Find out how Palo Alto Networks offers real innovation in the firewall, enables unprecedented visibility and control of applications and content - by user, not just IP address - at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation.

Speaker:
Mr. Pun Kok Lim,
Vice President of Sales for Asia Region

Biodata:
With more than 20 years of successful sales and management experience in the Asia Pacific region, PK has developed an excellent network of major SI resellers and customer bases across the Asia Pacific region. He fully understands and appreciates diverse cultural behaviors and business mentality of different countries and therefore has the ability to breach cultural barriers and successfully penetrate market opportunities in these countries. PK previously held sales management positions at RSA and Fortinet and is well respected among regional channel partners.

Net IQ: Making Information Security Matter in a Harsh Economic Climate

Synopsis:
As a Senior IT Professional in the current economic climate, you are probably being asked to achieve increased business efficiency with less budget and head count. Attend this session and find out how security processes and tasks can be integrated and automated within the operations framework to reduce operating costs, and free security and operations staff to focus on efficient and effective information management that adds value to the organisation.

Speaker:
Haf Saba,
Senior Solutions Specialist, APAC, NetIQ

Biodata:
Haf Saba joined Attachmate/NetIQ in August 2004 and is currently responsible for NetIQ Systems & Security Management technical sales, product planning, implementation and customer support in the Asia Pacific region. He has worked with the company in the US, Australia, and is now based in Singapore. Haf is a regular contributor to IT industry magazines and speaks publicly across Asia Pacific on both Systems & Security Management.