Seminars to Counter Cyber Crime Announced

June 5, 2006; 07:18 AM

Specialist cyber crime fighters SSRI, and their European partners, are holding a series of ‘Security Summit Europe 2006’ seminars in Germany, the UK, France and Cyprus throughout June, for key IT specialists. The schedule for these seminars is:
• 14th June 2006: Koln, Germany (Train and Consult: www.trainandconsult.de)
• 15th June 2006 Hamburg, Germany (New Horizons: www.NewHorizons.de)
• 19th June 2006 Frankfurt, Germany (New Horizons: www.NewHorizons.de)
• 20th June 2006 Paris, France (GED Systemes: www.gedsys.com)
• 21st June 2006 Dortmund, Germany (New Horizons: www.NewHorizons.de)
• 22nd June 2006 London, UK (ASG Training: www.asgtraining.co.uk)
• 23rd June 2006 Larnaca, Cyprus (Computrain: www.compu-train.com)
• 26th June 2006 London, UK (ASG Training: www.asgtraining.co.uk)

The seminars, based on enterprise security strategies from SSR-I, in association with the New York-based International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultant (EC-Council) – the international organisation driving standards and skills for e-Commerce Consultants – cover:
• Ethical hacking myths
• Intellectual property theft
• Corporate espionage
• Common blunders in a high-tech world
• Habits of highly malicious hackers
• Security solutions to avoid the breaches
• The implication of hacking
• Legal considerations
• Risk to web enabled application and web services
• Risk mitigation strategies
• Live hacking demo including applications hacking

The Summit aims to highlight the risks and exposures that all organisations face with regard to unauthorised intrusions and theft on their business systems. Not only offering an insight into the tools and methods used by unethical hackers (‘crackers’), the seminar outlines when and why an organisation can become a victim - and explains the counter-measures available.

“The seminars make delegates aware of the potential dangers to their systems’ security. They also provide the knowledge and skills that help to prevent security breaches or, if they occur, trace and then secure them,” said SSRI’s Rajive Kapoor.

According to Sanjay Bavisi, president of the EC-Council, losses from cyber crime are increasing because of improvements in automation, increasing the speed of attacks; increasingly sophisticated attack tools, and the increasing permeability of firewalls, among other things.

He stated: “Organisations’ greatest losses because of cyber crime are now greater than those posed by systems being attacked by viruses or worms. Among these are identity theft and computer-generated fraud.”

SSRI programmes are delivered via 38 delivery locations throughout Europe in association with its group of European partners including Training Camp, IT Security Training, Net security, BT Britannia and ASG training in the UK; New Horizons, Train & Consult, and Training Camp in Germany; Upgrade and GED Systemes in France; New Horizons and GKN in the Netherlands and Denmark.

About SSRI
SSRI has been formed as the master distributor in the UK and Europe for the products developed by the EC-Council – the international organisation driving standards and skills for e-Commerce Consultants.

The launch platform in the UK is the Licensed Penetration Tester programme that allows organisations to test their networks using the approaches and techniques that hackers would use. This program develops skills for Ethical Hacking, Forensics and Penetration Testing that will identify weaknesses and plug them – before malicious hackers get to them.

SSRI programmes are delivered via 38 delivery locations throughout Europe in association with its group of European partners including Training Camp, IT Security Training, Net security, BT Britannia and ASG training in the UK; New Horizons, Train & Consult, and Training Camp in Germany; Upgrade and GED Systemes in France; New Horizons and GKN in the Netherlands and Denmark.

About EC-Council
The International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultant (EC-Council) has developed a certification program that combines relevant education with an examination assuring professional competency. The Internet’s rapid evolution into electronic commerce and full-featured information delivery system has meant that IT professionals need a new range of skills.
The EC-Council has defined those skills in terms of internet security and this, in turn, means that organisations can use their firewalls, encryption and other security technologies to the maximum effect. These programs extend to website marketing, and other electronic commerce issues such as internet law, intellectual property rights, domain names, and copyright law.
EC-Council conferences allow professionals to work together to learn the latest news and counter-measures on security and network with other members from around the world.

The mission of the EC-Council is to:
• Foster professional standards
• Provide for communication among all E-commerce professionals, including corporate e-commerce consultants in government, business, and education, independent consultants, and aspiring e-commerce professionals such as students
• Provide for education through the development of curriculum, publishing of articles and books, professional papers, and the sponsoring of seminars and conferences
• Provide accreditation for E-Commerce certification and training programs

The EC-Council is a member-driven organisation whose members include practitioners from all levels of various fields and in a broad range of industries. Some of these members include Erik Laykin Pacific Rim, FBI/Infragard and Eric Yocam, Microsoft Corporation. The EC-Council also has had some high profile testimonials from Novell (Canada), the Ministry of Defence (UK), the Royal Navy (UK), the US Army (Germany), Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia) and the National Bank of Kuwait (Kuwait).

SSRI Rajive Kapoor Rajivek@SSR-i.com 0845 430 9981 07973 114057 http://www.SSR-i.com