Invited Speakers
The invited and guest speakers refer to those speakers who have been invited as keynote speakers. Such speakers are reputable speakers since they are experts in their filed of practice. Invited speakers, furthermore, talk about the international trends in information security products, methodologies and management issues. ISSA aims to balance talks from industry and academia, and therefore, invited speakers fulfil a key role in order to strike such a balance between industry and academia. These invited speakers are listed below in no particular order:
| Speaker | Topic |
| Prof Dr Steven Furnell | 21st-century threats facing and relating to end-users |
| Yvette du Toit | Using metrics to make sense of Security Assessment results for better decision making |
| Dino Covotsos | Sailing the Lulz Boat |
| Prof Alta van der Merwe | IEEE South African Section |
| Katherine Thompson | Content Wars |
| Andy Brauer | The Changing Dynamics of Cloud based Computing |
| Peet Smith | Privacy and Information Security – Is it supposed to be an integral part of you GRC Framework? |
| James Clarke | Building a long term strategy for International cooperation in Trustworthy ICT between EU and South Africa |
| Prof Basie von Solms | Trustworthy ICT and Cyber Security Research - Adding value from an African perspective |
| Neeraj Suri | Trustworthiness in Cloud Computing. A way forward for to engender global cooperation |
| Col Beaunard Grobler | Cyberspace - A growing underground economy |
| Aljosa Pasic | Future Internet in Europe: an overview of related initiatives and ICT trust and security challenges |
| Michel Riguidel | New models of communication and security for the Future Internet |
| Prof Jan Eloff | Technologies for Emerging Economies – Security? |
