From my privileged position as co-chair and session organiser I have a good view of the big picture at WorldComp in Las Vegas. It seems from the levels of attendance and the intensity of post-presentation discussions that two areas are standing out as hot topics at this year's Security and Management conference:
- Digital forensics is a field that is just transforming into a discipline with a substantial push towards process and procedure. Professor Erbacher from Utah State University explained the complexity of issues surrounding digital forensics and stressed that this is far from a solved problem. Interested parties are looking forward to his tutorial tomorrow evening.
- The second hot topic, represented in half a dozen papers, is the one-time password systems of which the theoretical discussion by the PINoptic team has been the best attended session thus far. Other researchers from the US and India have also addressed this area with an excellent review of related work presented by Kenrick Mock from the University of Anchorage in Alaska. Interested researchers in this area are using the conference to establish informal relationships to make sure the advantages of the approach are best utilised commercially. Definitely an idea whose time has arrived!
With a busy schedule of talks, discussions and technical meetings still to come there's plenty more to look forward to.
Signing off for now, Mark Bedworth CTO PINoptic Ltd.
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