2016 SSP 38th Annual Meeting
Concurrent 1C: Cybersecurity and the Scholarly World
Global Challenges/Collaborative Solutions
Concurrent 1C: Conficker; Stagefright; Apache Struts; SQL Injection; Sony; Talk Talk; Ashley Madison; The US Office of Personnel Management; Good old fashioned content theft (ahem Sci-Hub) whether it’s Malware coming through hijacked web advertising systems or the seemingly never— ending vulnerabilities that are being discovered in both the hardware and software that powers the Internet or the applications that we build or use, security is fundamental to our businesses. We are going to talk about the issues that face us and we want to talk with you about what needs to be done in our world.
Moderator: David Smith, The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Twitter Handle: @drs1969
Speakers
Peter Katz, Elsevier
Peter Katz is currently VP, Customer Lifecycle Solutions Support. In this role, he leads the development and implementation of strategies for pre- and post-purchase customer experience improvement programs. He is also responsible for working with Elseviers customers to identify and mitigate content theft.
He joined Elsevier in 1999, and previously held a number of sales, marketing and customer service leadership positions. His publishing career started in 1978 at Human Sciences Press; Katz subequently held positions at Academic Press, Thomson, Standard & Poor’s and John Wiley & Sons.
He joined Elsevier in 1999, and previously held a number of sales, marketing and customer service leadership positions. His publishing career started in 1978 at Human Sciences Press; Katz subequently held positions at Academic Press, Thomson, Standard & Poor’s and John Wiley & Sons.
Rick Anderson, J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah
Rick Anderson is Interim Dean of the J. Willard Marriott Library and University Librarian at the University of Utah, where he has ppreviously served as Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and Collections. He earned his B.S. and M.L.I.S. degrees at Brigham Young University, and has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and is a regular contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen blog, as well as writing a regular column for Library Journal’s Academic Newswire His book, Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman. In 2005, Rick was identified by Library Journal as a “Mover & Shaker” one of the “50 people shaping the future of libraries.” In 2008 he was elected president of the North American Serials Interest Group, and he was named an ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow for 2009-10. He is a popular speaker on subjects related to the future of scholarly communication and information services in higher education.
Christian Kohl, Christian Kohl Consulting & Project Management
Christian is an independent Consultant and Project Manager for Digital Publishing and IT. Before that, he served as “Director Information and Publishing Technology” at De Gruyter for nearly 11 years.
Christian has worked extensively with service providers all around the world, leading many RFP processes, system migrations, system implementations, and consolidations as well as shaping and implementing the digital strategy of the company. Christian holds a masters degree in Computational Linguistics and has worked as project manager, software developer, server administrator, event manager, and researcher in previous lifes.
Christian has worked extensively with service providers all around the world, leading many RFP processes, system migrations, system implementations, and consolidations as well as shaping and implementing the digital strategy of the company. Christian holds a masters degree in Computational Linguistics and has worked as project manager, software developer, server administrator, event manager, and researcher in previous lifes.