Al Barwani is keynote speaker

MUSCAT — Tariq bin Hilal al Barwani, President of KnowledgeOman.com and an IT expert, will be a keynote speaker at the first international conference on security, privacy and confidentiality issues in cyber law to be held in Egypt in June.  Al Barwani’s keynote presentation is titled, ‘penetrating and hacking into security through people’ illustrating the humanistic skill that every elite hacker uses to penetrate into a person, computer, businesses and organisation as a whole in an attempt to breach security.

The Computer Crime Research Centre (CCRC), the International Association of Cyber Crime Prevention (AILCC) in France, The High Tech Crime Institute (HTCI) in the United States, Ain Shams University in Egypt and St Mary’s University School of Law — Centre for Terrorism Law in the United States, are organising the conference. The conference is an opportunity for academics and consultants to exchange ideas and discuss the most recent topics focusing on cyber law.

Bringing together leading academics from all over the world, the conference will explore comparative approaches to intellectual property and discuss privacy, information technology and other cyber law issues. Experts will present papers focusing on security, privacy and confidentiality in cyber law, including: cyber crime, E-signature, E-commerce, freedom in cyber space, E-government, conflict of laws, E- arbitration, Internet jurisdiction, theory of cyber law, law of domain names, telecommunication law, E-transactions and E-payment, human trafficking, digital evidence, cyber terrorism and other subjects focusing on cyber law.