150 delegates
Intro by Matt Deacon, Chief Architect Advisor, Microsoft UK
- OpenXML is an ECMA standard and MS wants it to be an ISO standard
- Signatures will be submitted to the british council for approval
Ed Gibson, Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft UK
- X-Files, he is part of the conspiracy...
- Please keep out of my world
- It's all about the money, who would think in using an XBox to target children?
- The internet is not like the television: one-way street
Lord Errol
- We must take security seriously, Ed Gibson is right
- Walk on his work and some photos and jokes
- Some talk about working groups and legislative process
- He is concerned about: over-regulation and increasing power of the executive
- The citizen and the state: we must help citizens for their own good - light touch regulation
- Regulations are for your enemies
- Laws often fail to prevent what they probid
- Rules cannot control a complex system
- A complex system is not deterministic
- Rules only affect a few nodes and links: the law of unintended consequences
- IT Architects have a serious responsability
- We must protect the individual
- DPA
- Chinese Walls
- Abnormal access
- Unauthorized access
- Social engineering
- Transformation Government:
- Data sharing
- Identity Management
- Shared Services (procurement)
- Prevention Of Crime
- Other Issues:
- Personal Safety
- Critical National Infrastructure
- CMA - Hacker Tools
- Compliance
- Osborne Haxley
- Political priorities
- Identity is on the political agenda
- e-Crime is climbing steadily
- What is the purpose of I.D
- To help you and keep you safe
- To facilitate business
- Central Government - Control - Unique ID
- Local Authorities - Delivery - Federated ID
- Internet - Assurance -
- Globalization
- Web 2.0 and SaaS
- Location of Data Store (Patriot Act, RIPA pt3 keys)
- Mobile working and de-perimeterisation
- Flexibility will give competitive advantage
- Professional Standards: who decides who should be qualified? It's hard to define the qualifications. People get obsessed with qualifications.
- The Architect: your insight will determine the acceptability and success of the interface between:
- The Citizen
- The SME
- The Corporate
- Governments
- Globally
- Merlin Hay, Merlin Errol, www.lorderrol.com, www.secretsommelier.org, e@hay.org
- Works, works, what do you mean, governments do not work!
Matt Deacon
Architectural Role Capabilities:
- Call yourself and architect?
- Strategic Architect
- Enterprise ARchitect
- Infrastructure Architect
- Solution Architect
- In several areas:
- Generic
- Consultancy
- Corporate
- Vendor
- There are capabilities that we share in common, we will discuss it