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What is Information Assurance?

Declan O'Riordan

10:00-10:45 CEST Thursday 9th June

You know how to test if something works, but would you like to do more to test and reduce information risks? Do you know the difference between general risks and information risks? Welcome to the world of Information Assurance, or ‘IA’ (not to be confused with AI).

IA work includes IT Health Checks (specialised tests), supply chain risks, security, information management, use of legal expertise, setting policies, and delivering plain-language briefings to senior leadership. In fact, it’s everything from A for Authentication to Z for Zero-trust, with help and hinderance from various intelligence services (the modern spies) in-between. IA requires detective work and making decisions on fuzzy problems. It’s like testing, but rounder.

One of the significant challenges we face is the global shortage of IA specialists to meet the increasing workload, especially since our perimeters moved into the cloud. My career journey over the last decade has been from ‘ordinary’ testing into IA. I’d like to convince more testers to acquire IA skills, and apply them in the workplace.

What you will learn

  1. A practical understanding of Information Assurance
  2. Pointers to IA learning material
  3. An opportunity to improve IA in your workplace

Session Details

  • Introductory
  • 45 Minutes
  • Includes 15mins Q&A
  • Organising, Performing and Exploring
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Check out this video from Declan O’Riordan to hear more about his talk, ‘What is Information Assurance?’

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2022.

Session Speaker

EuroSTAR 2022 speaker Declan O'Riordan

Declan O’Riordan

Head of IA, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom

Declan O’Riordan is currently acting Head of Information Assurance (IA) for Government Digital Services, a part of the UK Cabinet Office. In 2014, he won the EuroSTAR prize for best conference paper and his debut talk was voted the ‘do over’ session. In 2015 Declan won the best conference paper prize at STAREAST, and was on the EuroSTAR programme committee. In 2016 he was a joint EuroSTAR best paper prize winner (with Zeger van Hese), and implemented the UK’s first real-time Interactive Application Security Testing solution. In 2017 he was co-chair of the first UKSTAR, and a contributor to the EuroSTAR ‘Little Book of Testing Wisdom’.

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