DR. CLAUDIA NATANSON
CEO, Security Practitioners Ltd.
Chair, CEP

Dr Claudia Natanson is the Chief Executive Officer of Security Practitioners Ltd and focuses on global SMEs, implementing security business agendas. Claudia’s experience and expertise covers over 15 years in the Security arena. She was responsible for setting the strategy, policy and information security programme for Diageo’s 180 global markets in 85 countries. She has worked with British Telecommunications where she set up the UK’s first commercial CSIRT, and BT’s Secure Business Services. She is involved in European security research and commercial initiatives. She is currently chair of the Corporate Executive Programme. Claudia holds B.Sc. in Nuclear Chemistry, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Ph.D. in Computers and Education. She is a Chartered IT Professional, Fellow of the British Computing Society and a CISSP.

BEN CHAI

 CEP Media and Communications

 Ben Chai was one of the first UK engineers to receive both the prestigious Microsoft MCSE and Novell MCNE qualifications and qualify as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. For a number of years Ben Chai was Technical Marketing Director of a leading UK Microsoft partner where he lead a team of consultants and engineers providing Windows business solutions to the financial and oil industries such as Citibank, Natwest, United Bank of Switzerland to name a few.

He has been the managing and technical editor for many of the original major UK Windows magazines such as NT Channel, NT Explorer and Back Office magazine (now ESM magazine).

Ben wrote the MS Press book on Migrating from Windows NT to Windows 2000 and was on the team of writers who put together the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. In addition he was co-author of the Official Microsoft Operations Manager training course.

As a trainer Ben has taught for many of the Microsoft training partners and for Microsoft themselves predominantly on operating systems, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SMS.

Ben currently trains the following courses for Learning Tree International:-

• Persuasive Business Writing
• Technical Writing
• Windows 2003 Security
• Powershell Scripting
• Windows 2003 Optimisation and troubleshooting
• Windows Vista

He is also the editor and security writer for a number of on-line sites and often writes special reports and produces podcasts for both the end-user and vendor aspects of the security and learning industry.

Ashleigh Porter, BSc(Hons), AMBCS

Information Security Awareness Specialist, InfoSecIQ Ltd

CEP Programme Co-ordinator

Ashleigh has a Computer Science degree from Greenwich University, London and is an associate member of the British Computer Society.  Having a keen interest in addressing ‘the human factor’ with Information Security, Ashleigh has specialises in end user awareness and training.  Her consultancy InfosecIQ Ltd specialises in embedding security awareness into company culture, people, functions and processes; providing relevant training and metrics necessary to measure ROI.

 Ashleigh has worked as a Global Information Security Awareness Manager at Diageo plc. responsible for, and reporting to the CISO on, the global awareness programme.  

 Ashleigh is responsible for CEP’s member and sponsor services and is only too happy to answer any queries you may have in regards to this – contact aporter@globalcep.com

CONFERENCE & PUBLICATION SERVICES, LLC
Association, Conference & Event Management Team

 Conference & Publication Services LLC, was formed in 1979 to meet the conference planning, execution and publication needs of business, government, academia and non-profits. Since 1979, CAPS has worked with a variety of clientele both domestically and internationally, creating and managing unique meetings, workshops, conferences and corporate events.

 We are an innovative team of conference and event consultants committed to our clients' success. Each of our consultants stands by the work ethic that our team is your team.

 CAPS is a true single resource for conference and event management. Our team of expert consultants provide personalized end-to-end conference and event management solutions. We focus on client objectives and then strive to go above and beyond expectations.

Thanks to parent company Apogee Strategies LLC, CAPS has been set apart from the pack with our technical ability that includes online registration, online speaker and presentation management, and our virtual headquarters setup.

Past & Current clientelle include:

•  U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC)
• The Executive Women's Forum (Alta Associate's EWF)
• Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, Inc. (FIRST.Org)
• Governor's Office, State of Illinois
• Northwestern University, Department of Information Technology Network Services
• Risk Assessment Corporation (RAC)
• XBRL International, Inc.
• XBRL US, Inc.