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 |
| Keynote address: Prof. Dr. Sylvia Osborn | Role-based access control: is it still relevant? |
| Keynote address: Prof. Dr. Steve Marsh | Trust and Security - Links, Relationships, and Family Feuds |
| Mark Eardley, SuperVision Biometric System | The Identity Crisis in corporate IT: how fundamental failures in user authentication are fuelling modern cybercrime |
| Kamil Reddy, Manager, Deloitte's Risk Advisory division | Data Privacy Compliance - What You Get Along The Way |
| Daniella Kafouris, Manager, Deloitte's Risk Advisory division | A Guide to Conducting a Legal Audit of the Cloud |
| Phillip Gerber, MD of Magix Security | User behaviour monitoring - practical case studies |
| Kris Budnik, Partner/Director, PwC, South Africa | The Future of Information Security |
| Russell Opland, Associate Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers | Why Privacy is not Information Security |
| Craig Rosewarne, Director, Wolfpack Information Risk | The 2012 SA Cyber Threat Barometer |
