Paul Watters: Government Data Loss - A Bounty of Credentials for Organised Crime? (click to view the video)
Date: Monday 14th June, 6pm
Location: Lecture theatre, M405, James Weir Building, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow G1 1XJ
Abstract
Governments are vested with a deep responsibility to manage identifying information about their citizens, to assist in service planning and provision, and revenue collection. However, there is strong evidence that governments often fail to implement and audit rigorous data protection practices to safeguard this data from falling into the hands of organised crime. In this talk, I will present some UK examples of government data loss, and provide some basic guidance on how these incidents could have been prevented.
About the speaker
Associate Professor Paul A. Watters is Research Director of the Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) at the University of Ballarat. The ICSL undertakes world-class research into securing internet commerce systems, processes and practices, and receives generous funding from the State Government of Victoria, the Australian Federal Police, Westpac and IBM. Prior to taking up his role with the ICSL, A/Prof Watters was Head of Data Services at the Medical Research Council in the UK, securing the data records of the 5,362 participants in the oldest longitudinal study in the world (the National Survey of Health and Development). He has also worked as an Associate Professor at Macquarie University, as a researcher at the CSIRO. A/Prof Watters is a Chartered Information Technology Professional, and received his PhD in Computing from Macquarie University, and an MPhil in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge.