Title:

A Short History of Information Security Technologies

Speaker: Mike Small
Date: Tue 19th January 2016
Time: 17:30
Location:

The Conference Centre. Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Manchester. M3 4FP

 

About the seminar

Since oldest times information has been recognized as a valuable commodity. Technology to store and share information has developed from Babylonian cuneiform tablets to present day digital media. However as the technologies have evolved so have the threats and each of these technologies has vulnerabilities. This talk will provide an overview of what information security means and how securing information has evolved to meet the challenges of todays interconnected and always on world.