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The American University in Dubai organizes the 11th ISSAF Conference

  • United Arab Emirates: Sunday, October 26 - 2008 at 15:28
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The 11th Information Systems Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF) conference was held on Thursday, the 23rd of October, at The American University in Dubai (AUD) in the presence of the University's faculty and student bodies, along with prominent dignitaries and local and international company representatives from within the Information Technology sector.

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  • Dr. Ghassan Kbar, Associate Professor of Information Technology at AUD and ISSAF Security Conference Chair.
    Dr. Ghassan Kbar, Associate Professor of Information Technology at AUD and ISSAF Security Conference Chair.
Dr. Ghassan Kbar, Associate Professor of Information Technology at AUD and ISSAF Security Conference Chair, organized this year's security conference with Open Information Systems Security Group (OISSG) to demonstrate a real security hacking scenario.

The ISSAF conference highlighted the critical issues for hacking email and wireless network by presenting a live demo on hacking executive email, hacking a wireless network, and hacking competition, as well as identifying fraud in System Application Product (SAP) Environment.

Those live demos were presented by key note speakers Balwant Rathore, Vice President of Research at the OISSG (United Kingdom) and Jagadeesh Palanivelu, IT Manager at The Emirates Trading Agency (ETA).

On the indispensability of such conferences Dr. Kbar commented,

"Personal and business email application running on wired and wireless network becomes a prime target for hackers. Protecting these network applications against attacks and preserving the integrity of your information and business information would require a proper network security setup. Attending the security conference organized this year with the OSSIG at AUD, along with observing the live demos on how to hack email and wireless networks, would make the security awareness program for users and organization very fruitful."


It is important to note that the awareness program first commenced at AUD in 2006 and has been triggered since then by a running series of security conferences and seminars held at the University on a regular basis.
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