ISSE Partners With Leading Benelux Identity Conference For 2009

The Hague, The Netherlands, 6th – 8th October

eema, the European association for e-identity and security, has today announced that its annual Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) conference will this year be co-located with Identity 2009, Benelux’s largest annual platform for Identity & Access Management. The partnership promises an even more extensive programme of keynotes, debates and sessions delivering exclusive insights into the latest developments in security and identity management.

Owned and run by the Institute for International Research (IIR) in The Netherlands, Identity is in its sixth consecutive year and attracts over 200 experts and end users to share the most crucial updates and developments on new identity technologies. Running alongside ISSE on the 6th and 7th October, the conference will address high-level key issues such as governance, risk management, compliance and reducing costs associated with identity access management (IAM). 

ISSE 2009 is co-organised by The Municipality of The Hague, alongside regular eema partners, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and non-profit ICT organisation TeleTrusT, with support from the Netherlands independent association, ecp.nl. The event is aimed at IT, policy and decision makers, senior level management charged with protecting their corporate infrastructure, as well as government practitioners and legal/compliance/regulatory professionals.

“The partnering of the two events will provide the perfect environment for learning and exchanging experiences and best practice with security and identity peers,” comments Executive Director of eema, Roger Dean. “The Hague is the industry hub of The Netherlands and will attract a strong contingent of European delegates to the conference.”

ISSE is Europe's only independent, interdisciplinary, security conference. Now in its eleventh year, this three-day event will attract over 400 representatives from across Europe, providing an informal and stimulating environment for attendees to learn, share experiences and explore solutions with their European counterparts, focusing on security and related issues like cost of ownership, risk management and interoperability.

Both conferences will also see strategic supplier/end user partnerships honoured with the 11th annual eema Award for Excellence in Secure Electronic Business and the sixth annual IIR Identity Award. The eema Award for Excellence, which was won last year by SURFnet and Everett for their identity federation project for higher education and research, goes to a leading European organisation within the ICT security field. The IIR Identity Award is presented to the most innovative identity management implementation in The Netherlands.

For registration, delegate fees and further details, please visit the conference website at: http://www.isse.eu.com. Delegates registering for ISSE 2009 will also gain full access to all Identity 2009 conference sessions.

About eema – www.eema.org

For 22 years, eema has been Europe’s leading independent, non-profit e-Identity & Security association, working with its European members, governmental bodies, standards organisations and interoperability initiatives throughout Europe to further e-Business 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, Spam and e-mail Abuse Management, Role based Access Control – A User Guide, Password Synchronisation,  Secure messaging within and between 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-Identity or Security (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, Hoffman la Roche, KPMG, Magyar Telecom Rt, National Communications Authority, Hungary, Microsoft, HP, and the Norwegian Government Administration Services to name but a few.

Visit www.eema.org for more information or contact the association on +44 1386 793028 or at info@eema.org

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