This symposium aims to bring together knowledge from many different domains in order to create knowledge exchange and collaborative infrastructures, which address the key risks that Scotland faces. The focus on this symposium is security risk, cybercrime and the protection of critical infrastructure, with a key focus on:

• Collaborative networks within Scotland and links to the EU and the UK.
• knowledge networks related to computer security, cybercrime and in risk analysis.
• Security and Cybercrime risks of the Cloud.
• Training requirements for Scotland related to Computer Security and Cybercrime.
• Emergency response infrastructures, and risk within critical infrastructure.
• Criminal risks and new attack vectors.
• Risks to privacy and identity theft.
• Intelligence-led activities.

There will also be a wide range of prizes for students, which will be announced soon.

Speakers

There will be a wide range of speakers from academia, the business community, law enforcement, and so on.

An outline of the range of speakers include:

• Prof Merabti Madjid, Liverpool John Moores University.
• Finmeccanica Cyber Solutions.
• Don Smith, Dell SecureWorks.
• Ian Whittaker/Neil Logan, Amor Group.
• Richard Nethercott, Logica.
• Scott Chase, Raytheon Cyber.
• IBM Ltd.
• Scottish Government Lead
• ACPOS Lead.
• John Howie, Microsoft