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Company: Hack In The Box / HITBSecConf

Release Summary: Chief Security Officers for Akamai, Andy Ellis and Facebook, Joe Sullivan, will keynote the 11th annual HITB Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur on the 16th and 17th of October 2013.

Date of Issue: 10th September 2013

Event Venue: Intercontinental Hotel Kuala Lumpur

Date of Event:  October 14th to 17th 2013

Security Heavyweights to Deliver Keynote at HITB Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, 10th September 2013: This October, both Chief Security Officers of Akamai and Facebook will be in Kuala Lumpur to deliver their Day 1 and Day 2 keynote talks at HITBSecConf 2013 (October 16th and 17th).Andy Ellis, Chief Security Officer at leading cloud platform provider Akamai will be delivering his Day 1 keynote address on “Cognitive Injection: Reprogramming the Situation-Oriented Human OS”. The following Day 2 keynote address will be delivered by Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer at Facebook who will speak on “Bringing Social to Security”.

Taking place at the Intercontinental Hotel Kuala Lumpur, this year’s 2-day, triple-track HITBSecConf Kuala Lumpur will also play host to over 40 of the world’s top computer security experts and is expected to attract hundreds of attendees from around the globe.

Akamai’s CSO Andy Ellis first spoke at HITBSecConf Amsterdam in 2012 where he had shared a behind-the-scenes look at how Akamai’s security program evolved through the collapse of the dot-com bubble, avoided being trapped below the security poverty line, and developed into one of the most trusted cloud platforms today.

“I’ve spent the year and a half in between doing further research into cognitive science and organizational psychology, and the talk I’ll be giving in Kuala Lumpur represents the third stage of the presentation (the second was given as a keynote at RSAC USA this year) that I started in Amsterdam,” said Andy Ellis, Chief Security Officer at Akamai.

“As I’ve studied, I’ve found many analyses of the way the human brain learns, operates, and responds to new inputs to be quite explanatory of some of the effects we, as InfoSec professionals, often observe in the field,” he added. “Rather than continuing to repeat our mistakes over and over, an understanding of how evolution has tailored the human brain to respond can be used as a tool to make organizations behave in ways we would find more pleasing”.

On October 17th, Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, will take the stage for Day 2 keynote address. Joe’s last HITBSecConf keynote in Amsterdam 2011 discussed the importance of innovation for security teams to survive with the evolving security landscape. This time, for HITBSecConf 2013 Kuala Lumpur Joe will share some recent examples of innovative security initiatives that leverage social engagement to improve security.

“I am excited to return to HITB to experience the Malaysia event because the Amsterdam conference was such a unique situation–where my keynote started a conversation that kept going until the end of the conference, as I met with and got to know the other attendees. It felt like every participant was an expert who brought great ideas to the dialogue”, said Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer at Facebook.

“When I spoke in 2011, I focused on the importance of security teams always innovating to keep up with the latest threats. I still believe that, and when I recently started documenting some of our newer home-grown innovations I noticed a trend: that we have injected a social aspect into our recent ideas. So in this keynote, I will share some of the ways we’ve successfully engaged socially, even in otherwise technical solutions, to increase the security of our social network”, he added.

Registration for HITBSecConf2013 – Kuala Lumpur is already open with prices for the 2-day conference increasing after the 25th of September. For further details and the full speaker list, please see http://conference.hitb.org/

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About HITBSecConf

HITB Security Conference or HITBSecConf is a community-backed, not-for-profit series of security conferences held annually in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The annual series has also previously been held in the Middle East with conferences in Bahrain and Dubai. The main aim of HITBSecConf is to enable the dissemination, discussion and sharing of deep knowledge network security information with a focus on groundbreaking attack and defense methods. HITBSecConf is endorsed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Malaysian National Computer Confederation (MNCC), Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), MSC Malaysia and the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MICCI). Our local partner in The Netherlands is ITQ.