KUALA LUMPUR, 16 JUNE 2009 – Security aspects of e-government services are to come under scrutiny for the first time at HITBSecConf, an international security conference to be held in Malaysia.
“As governments around the world try to make the interaction between their agencies and people easier and more-efficient through a number of public services brought online daily, there is an ever-increasing need to critically examine the security of these new services,” said Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, founder and CEO of Hack In The Box, which is organising the seventh annual HITBSecConf series.
“This convention will see international mainstream and underground experts gather in Malaysia from 5-8 October,” said Kannabhiran. “For the first time in the conference series, the security experts will dissect not only the latest attack and defence methods for corporate networks, but those relevant to public security as well.”
Hack In The Box (HITB) is the owner and organiser of HITBSecConf, the network security conference in Asia and the Middle East. The event is endorsed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation & Management Planning Unit (MAMPU), Malaysian National Computer Confederation (MNCC) and the Malaysian Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).
Technology: Exposing us to rising risks
Kannabhiran said this year’s conference would feature four hardcore technical training sessions on the first two days and triple track presentations, hacking competitions and other complementing activities on the third and fourth days. “Renowned keynote speakers include Grand Idea Studio president Joe Grand aka Kingpin, hacker and activist Rop Gonggrijp, and InGuardians co-founder Ed Skoudis.”
“The very technology that is making our lives easier is also exposing us to various risks, from the threat of identity theft to leakage of confidential information,” he said.
“It is therefore imperative to carefully scrutinise the technological foundations for public services and share the findings not only with the organisations that develop them but with the governments that deploy them and the people who use them,” Kannabhiran said.
