Presenter:

Peter Cassidy

Anti-Phising Working Group (APWG)

Anti-Phishing Working Group Secretary General Peter Cassidy is a business development and product design consultant, director of research at TriArche Research Group <http://www.triarche.com>, an international collaborative of senior consultants engaged in business development and product research in the IT industry. His duties as Secretary General of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, exploit his knowledge and experience as an analyst, speaker, writer and commentator on industrial developments and public policy related to information security, financial crime and their myriad intersections. As research director at TriArche Research Group, Mr Cassidy has assisted in the development of communications and security related technologies and services (among them probabilistic modelling schemes for rationally pricing cyber-risk insurance policies; license management systems to control software usage; an identity theft predictive analysis engine; digital receipting schemes; network auditing services and watermarking systems for copyrighted digital media). Mr Cassidy is formally seated on the technical advisory boards, holds equity interest or advises a number of software and communications companies in the United States. Mr Cassidy has spoken and given presentations on electronic crime, copyright management, license management, consumer privacy, distance learning, US cryptography export policies and the underwriting challenges for Cyber-risk policies in the United States, Brazil, Canada, France, Australia, Japan, Great Britain and Singapore. As APWG Secretary General, Mr Cassidy has given formal lectures and presentations to the FDIC, the US Justice Department, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and a number of inter-governmental working groups investigating online financial crime. As a technology writer and commentator, Mr Cassidy has authored articles and opinion columns under his own byline for international business publications such as The Economist, ForbesASAP and WIRED. US-based and international journalists from such publications as the Washington Post and New York Times have interviewed and quoted him on such disparate topics as crimeware's evolution, electronic crime and cryptography export policy.

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