SCIENCE

Denim Group has announced that John Dickson, CISSP will be delivering a keynote address to the first-ever Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. The conference, organized by the Institute for Cyber Security (ICS) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), will include many leading worldwide scholars in the field of privacy and security.

The keynote, titled “Software Security: Is OK good enough?” will address the existing state of application security and the struggles for business justification when securing software applications. “I want to convey to this gathering of top academic talent the genuine state of software security in enterprise clients,” said John Dickson, Principal, Denim Group and keynote speaker. “The reality is that most buyers do not demand their software to be secure, and many suppliers are focused purely on features and functionality - we need to look at different justification models to enhance the perceived need of security in software.”

The conference will include top researchers in security and privacy in academia today. “We are excited to host this group of world-wide leaders who are advancing the state of security for applications and privacy,” said Jeff Reich, CISSP, the Director of Operations at UTSA’s ICS. “San Antonio is the perfect backdrop for this ACM Conference given the heightened level of security activity in the region associated with the Air Force and San Antonio’s emerging recognition as a cyber security center of excellence.”