NEXT eClub TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

The next eClub;

TOPIC: security debate: are we all Villains and victims?

Debating Panel:

Journalist: Simon Sharwood Journalist: Patrick Gray

MessageLabs: Andrew Gordon Sophos: Paul Ducklin

Macquarie Bank:Tim Atkinson Australia Post:Michael Durie

Moderator Craig Allen

In this cutting edge highly connected virtual world, are you a hacker or a pirate? Has someone stolen your identity? Used your credit card? Have you downloaded or burned movies or CDs? How about copying a customer database or business plan before you resign? Are there really high tech gangs hell raising on the Internet super highway? Is there a better brave new world? Does it all start with the letter “i”? Where is this all heading? What can or should be done about it? What will it be like as the Internet gets faster and becomes move pervasive? Let’s see what our panel has to say.

WHEN: WEDNESDAY AUGUST 27th

WHERE: HOTEL CBD, Club Bar, Level 3/ 52 King Street

TIME: 4pm - 6pm

WANT TO ATTEND?
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Previous eClub Events

TOPIC: IT AND THE CARBON ECONOMY

Speaker: Dave Sag, Founder and Executive Director of Carbon Planet

Dave Sag is a frank, fearless and passionate advocator for leadership in the IT industry. His work with Carbon Planet is aided by years of experience in the industry and he is able to articulate how innovation in IT can make a positive contribution to responsible environmental governance.

A semi-finalist in the GII Information Infrastructure award in 1996, recipient of the Australia Day Council award for services to Australian business in 1998, Dave has experience in online retailing and was recently involved in a software-quality pilot project for the European Patent Office.

Dave addressed:
§ Leadership in the IT community, why what you do matters
§ E-Commerce and C-Commerce - The role of IT in emerging economies
§ How IT can benefit from the Carbon Economy
§ What is Carbon Trading anyway?

Download the March Survey Results

Link to the Skit Video
Link to Highlights of the March eCllub Video

TOPIC: WHY DO SOME PEOPLE GET PRESS COVERSAGE

Speaker: Phil Sim, Founder of MediaConect

Phil Sim is a high-profile and respected technology journalist. He developed a reputation as a hard-hitting news journalist during his time at Computerworld Australia where he rose from a graduate position to become news editor by the age of 23. Then appointed as editor of another IDG masthead, Network World where he moulded the publication into one of the country's most-respected IT titles, and in the process was recognised as the Most Controversial Journalist at the 1999 IT Writer's Awards.

He addressed;
• Why some people get press coverage and others don’t !
• How has the media changed
• Who's more important, who's less important
• What has been the impact of the move to online, blogs, web 2.0 etc
• Why its even more difficult to get the media's attention now.

TOPIC: HOW ON-LINE E-COMMERCE FRAUD IS DONE

Speaker: Alisdair Faulkner, Products Director of ThreatMETRIX

Alisdair reviewed the current use of botnets and compromised hosts in on-line e-commerce fraud. Current statistics show that suspect orders are rejected at 2-3 times the actual fraud rate, which means merchants are potentially losing good business. Alisdair looked at past and current fraud detection best practices, such as cookies and geo-location and show how Device Intelligence and Fraud Networks make a significant difference to a merchant’s bottom-line.

In 2006 there was:
•    Over US$3Billion in fraudulent credit card transactions.
•    Ameritrade lost USD$4m,
•    E-Trade lost USD$20m where users stock-trading accounts were broken into.
•    Phishing incidents increased 30%.

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