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The 2nd Southeastern Europe Broadband Conference and Expo is following up on the successful first event that gathered world leading vendors, regional operators and service providers, regulatory agencies, channel partners and corporate customer sector in the extensive coverage of the Southeastern Europe telecommunication industry transition in the internet era. This year event will continue strong coverage of technology, infrastructure deployment and regulatory developments and extend into the broadband communication industry investment trends, opportunities and best practices The retrospective of the broadband infrastructure and services in the light of the regional economic initiatives will also be covered.

The conference will cover the broadband technology advances and deployment status in Southeastern European (SEE) countries and their geo-strategic neighbors, focusing primarily on Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldavia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Slovenia. This fast growing market is attractive to incumbent vendors as well as to an increasing number of players focusing on emerging markets of Eurasia regions.

InfoSecurity in Broadband communications

Speaker Name: Aleksandar (Alex) Solomonovic
Organization: Bullzi Security
Title: Vice President and Chief Security Officer

This workshop will discuss the impact of affordable high-speed Internet access on Information Security. Ubiquitous high-speed Internet access is driving up consumer expectations of services accessible via the Internet.  This trend is forcing banks, on-line retailers, and even the government to offer new, previously unavailable, services over the Internet.  Very often, the convenience of conducting financial and other transactions from home carry significant underlying risks.

The international criminal community is well aware that the average at-home user does not have a high level of security awareness.  Most home users are unable to recognize sophisticated threats in the form of phishing, malware, rootkits, etc.

In addition to compromising home user systems to obtain personal and financial information, Internet criminals are taking advantage of high access speeds, and are using home-user systems as a stepping stone for attacking other targets.

Government aside, the financial industry is usually most sensitive to security issues and the first to respond and mitigate new threats.  Due to increasing on-line based ID theft and financial fraud, major credit card companies have developed information security guidelines for any company or organization that process cardholder data.  Over the last few years these guidelines have evolved into globally recognized PCI Data Security Standards (DSS).

This workshop will discuss PCI DSS requirements; namely how these requirements can be achieved and maintained.