Today in Rome at the ISSE (Information Security Solutions Europe) 2006 conference, eema, the independent European association for e-business and owners of ISSE revealed that Warsaw, Poland will be the host nation for ISSE 2007, 25th – 27th September. The announcement follows the most successful ISSE conference to date, with more than 350 delegates from 35 countries taking part in over 70 panel debates, discussions and workshops discussing the opportunities, challenges, and progress that is being made in information security internationally.

Highlights for ISSE 2006 delegates have included keynotes from best selling author, founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security Inc, Bruce Schneier, who introduced four core principles of economics in IT (The network effect; High fixed costs, Low marginal costs; Switching costs and the market for lemons) and Michael Howard of Microsoft who gave delegates exclusive insight into the security challenges and functionality of the forthcoming operating system, Microsoft Vista.

As a direct result of the success of ISSE 2006 platinum sponsor Microsoft, WISeKey, silver sponsor BlackBerry, Sharp Digital Documents, Applications Security Inc. (AppSecInc) and SafeBoot have all increased their commitment and support to ISSE. VP Corporate Communications at Geneva based specialists in identification and authentication, WISeKey, Daniel Ybarra states, “We have enjoyed a productive conference and look forward to a long relationship with ISSE. WISeKey is proud to be associated with eema and shares its philosophy of networking and information sharing to educate, inform and meet the requirements of the international security community.”

Head of Special Projects at eema, Roger Dean comments, “eema would like to thank all ISSE 2006 sponsors and exhibitors for their involvement, expertise and dedication to working with eema and its partners, ENISA and TeleTrust, to make the 8th annual ISSE conference the most significant independent information security event in Europe.”

Dean continues, “We look forward to welcoming even more people to Warsaw in 2007 where we will continue to confront the issues that affect IT professionals and users including biometrics, PKI, identity, trust computing, compliance and governance, and of course the hotly anticipated Microsoft Vista that has generated much discussion this year.”

For details about ISSE and the benefits of eema membership please visit http://www.eema.org. Further information concerning ISSE sponsors and exhibitors can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com; http://www.wisekey.com; http://www.blackberry.com; http://www.sharp-eu.com; http://www.safeboot.com and http://www.appsecinc.com.

About eema

For 18 years, eema has been Europe’s leading independent, non-profit e-Business association, working with its European members, governmental bodies, standards organisations and e-Business initiatives throughout Europe to further e-Business technology and legislation.

eema’s remit is to educate and inform around 160 Member organisations (and over 1,500 Member contacts) on the latest developments and technologies, at the same time enabling Members of the association to compare views and ideas. The work produced by the association with its Members (projects, papers, seminars, tutorials and reports etc) is funded by both membership subscriptions and revenue generated through fee-paying events. All of the information generated by eema and its members is available to other members free of charge.

Examples of papers produced recently are:- Towards Understanding Identity, An Introduction to Instant Messaging, Spam and e-mail Abuse Management, Wireless Deployment Guidelines, Secure e-Mail within the Organisation and PKI Usage within User Organisations. eema members, based on a requirement from the rest of the Membership, contributed all of these papers. Some are the result of many months’ work, and form part of a larger project on the subject.

Any organisation involved in e-Business (usually of a global or European nature) can become a Member of eema, and any employee of that organisation is then able to participate in eema activities. Examples of organisations taking advantage of eema membership are Unilever, Volvo, Shell, Royal Mail, KPMG, Magyar Telecom Rt, National Communications Authority, Hungary, IBM, Microsoft, HP, and the Norwegian Government Administration Services to name but a few.

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