The Public Security Colloquia Series have been successful since their inception, and a full programme has run since 1994. They are held at the LSE and attract both professionals and researchers and students specialising in information security.

The purpose of the security colloquia is to allow practitioners and academics the opportunity to discuss current topics in information security and related subjects at greater depth than is possible within the confines of the regular commercial conference. Practitioners can consider long term trends and review some of the newer ideas emerging from academic research. Academics can discover new concerns emerging within the industry.

Admission is free this academic year, but non-LSE members are asked to express their intention to attend by E-mail to csrc@lse.ac.uk
A map is available on the main LSE page.

Security Colloquium Series
The following were held in the academic year 2002/03:

19th February 2003 - Peter Sommer (Visiting Research Fellow CSRC)
The future for Digital Evidence - Law, Technology and the Organisation
Increasingly evidence of crimes will be digital in nature, throwing up issues for organisations about how to manage systems that can produce reliable evidence, that the courts will value.

26th February 2003 - Bernard Dyer (Visiting Research Fellow CSRC)
The place of standards and codes of practice in information management
Bernard has written a number of codes widely used in fields such as banking and finance for ensuring compliance with Best Practice in the industry. He will review the value of standards and codes for information managers concerned with security and legal admissibility of evidence.

5th March - trying to rearrange the postponed Colloquium
12th March 2003 Maria Farrell OECD Paris (member of CSRC Advisory Board)
IS security post 9/11 - private affair or public policy?
Maria will consider the issues of whether security policy can be purely a private or public matter where Critical National Infrastructure is concerned. In the light of the post 9/11 events this issue has come increasingly to the fore of concern for national security.

19th March 2003 Robert Willison (Copenhagen Business School)
Situational Crime Prevention - can criminology support security management? The case of Barings Bank.
Robert will discuss the usefulness of adapting a criminological framework developed for the UK Home Office to deal with street crime for focusing on the perpetrators of computer based crime prior to its commission.