KEYNOTE & PLENARY SESSIONS

COSAC Keynote & Plenary speakers are consistently among the most prominent and respected Executive Practitioners, Patent Holders, and Researchers in the business, or are specially selected to deliver a unique perspective through case studies. For many COSAC participants being present at COSAC Keynotes is bettered only by the unique opportunity to spend time exchanging ideas with and learning from some of the most experienced people in our field. COSAC 2007 will be no exception.

• Jim Gamble, Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre brings with him over 25 years in UK policing most recently tackling organised crime as the Deputy Director of the National Crime Squad. He set up the National Crime Squad's specialist response cell - the Paedophile Online Investigation Team (POLIT) - and was instrumental in forming the first international law enforcement partnership to combat child abuse online - the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT).
• Brian Collins is the Department for Transport's Chief Scientific Adviser and Professor of Information Systems at the Defence College of Management and Technology (DCMT). A graduate of Oxford University he has been Deputy Director of RSRE and then Chief Scientist at the Government Communication Headquarters. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a past Vice President, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and a past Vice President, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Design.
• John O'Leary, Director of Education for the Computer Security Institute, has been a computer security practitioner since the mid-1970's. A visiting lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas Graduate School of Management, John has preached the value and methodologies of computer security to tens of thousands of practitioners around the world. He was the recipient of the 2004 COSAC Award.
• Lynn Griffin was called to the Bar in 1991 since which time she has developed a practise in all levels of criminal courts centered on the prosecution of intellectual property crime, fraud, hi-tech crime and professional discipline/regulation. Lynn leads the Intellectual Property Crime team within 23 Essex Street. She has extensive experience of public and private prosecutions and her current cases include prosecution in an alleged conspiracy to defraud with 12 defendants being prosecuted privately on behalf of the film and music industry.
• David Lynas is the founder and chair of COSAC, Managing Director of the David Lynas Consulting Group, the co-author of SABSA, and Director of the SABSA Institute. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the only professional from outside North America ever to be honoured with the Computer Security Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award.