Eoin Keary

Well I attended the ISC2 Dusseldorf conf on identity management. Most of the attendees were are German friends, which I personally like the German way of doing things. They also have nice beer.

The confrence itself was not  a “life event” by any means.

It had a number of presentations, the most interesting was the presentationsgiven by a guy called Tom Koehler, a director of security @ microsoft, he talked about TRUST. Another presentation was by a guy called Rainer Rehm on federated identity management and the use of the mobile phone to access all of ones accounts.

The Panel discussion was a discussion amongst the panel (boring) with not much opportunity for the audience to get involved, I blame the chair on that count.

Also the discussion was about “Is there a Need for Security Breach Disclosure Law for Data Subjects in the EU?” but the panel interchanged the idea of information theft and security breach too much for my taste.

Dusseldorf = Nice + Beer.

SecureDüsseldorf Conference = Not so nice. They have much to do to get to the RSA/BH/OWASP level