ISSE is a European ICT security conference - now in its 8th year, it presents and explores the technical, commercial, organisational, legal and political issues in information security. Delegates come from across Europe, from business, academic institutions and European governments to hear high-level presentations from a choice of over 80 across 3 days and share their experiences with other delegates.

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A conference to discuss the challenges facing local authorities in choosing software platforms to enable them to deliver e-government programmes and transform service delivery will be held on February 6 at Glaziers Hall, London Bridge, London.

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The DTI has announced a conference on Trusted Computing

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eema, the independent European association for e-business, has announced it is bringing together key industry players to review, debate and plan for the future of eID cards for EU member states. At The European eID Card Conference in 2006, eema will drive the delegates and speakers to debate the issues, challenges and solutions facing industry as electronic identity card (eID) schemes proliferate across governments and organisations.

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Government and business must work together and across borders to tackle spam, said the OFT today at a summit of international spam enforcement agencies in London.

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The Sixth Annual Symposium of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC) will be held on 20 October and will see the launch of IAAC's work on Identity Assurance. Speakers at this year's Symposium include, Alan Jebson, COO, HSBC Holdings, Katherine Courtney, Identity Card Programme Director, Home Office, Peter Sommer, LSE, and Andrew Miller, MP, Chairman, PITCOM.

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The innovative Smart Card Centre, part of the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway University of London hosts its open day on 20th September 2005 to bring together industry, staff and students.

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Europe has proven to be particularly welcoming to open source projects and innovators. Widespread adoption by European governments and organizations has signaled strong support for open source technologies and has put that part of the world squarely in a leadership position in the open source space. Recognizing this, and to continue championing open source in an international forum, O'Reilly Media has launched its first O'Reilly European Open Source Convention (EuroOSCON), which will be held at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on October 17-20, 2005.

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The growing demand for secure, smart devices, crypto-modernization in government, and new financial applications are driving the adoption of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), whose combined efficiency and strength make it the ideal public-key technology to meet these security needs.

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The CARTES 2005 trade fair will celebrate its 20th anniversary by launching the IDentification area, which will be totally dedicated to identification technologies. For the three days of the exhibition and conferences, to be held from 15 to 17 November 2005 at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, the CARTES trade fair will host leading figures in the smart card sector from all over the world.

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