Jean-Louis DE TURCKHEIM
Director, Global Security Solutions, IBM EMEA
E -mail: jldt@fr.ibm.com



Profile:
Jean-Louis de Turckheim has been with IBM for 32 years. He has held several marketing positions in the Banking and Public Sector industries with national responsibilities, before being named Director of Large Systems Operations and before joining the US headquarters as a senior marketing consultant to the IBM Corporate Marketing Staff in Armonk, NY. Back to IBM-France in 1988, Jean-Louis became a member of the Executive Committee when he took the position of Director of Communications and External Programs. He returned to a field marketing job as Director of Sales Operations in 1992 before holding the position of Director of Public Sector, which included Government, Utilities, R&D, Telecoms, Transportation, Education and Health Care. This led him to launch in 1994 Sedit-Marianne, an IBM owned subsidiary of which he was the founding Chairman and General Manager, in charge of developing and distributing SW and Services solutions to the Local Government marketplace. In 1995, Jean-Louis became Director of Public Affairs, Deputy to the IBM France Chairman and Country General Manager. He moved to Brussels as Vice President, Government Programs, in charge of managing IBM’s corporate public affairs and standards policy in EMEA. Since then, he is the Vice Chair of EICTA, the European Federation of Information Communication Technology and Consumer Eelectronic Industries. Back to Paris in 2002, J-L de Turckheim was named to his current position of Director, IBM Global Security Solutions, with the mission of coordinating all IBM security and privacy related offerings to the EMEA marketplace.

Presentation:
“Make your Local Government Secure”
Regardless of the need for, and the availability of, technology and funding, many public organizations are luctant to pursue the opportunities presented by e-business and other information technologies (IT) to transform and streamline internal operations. This is often due to the belief that replacing or supplementing standalone mainframe systems with networked computers, and implementing automated reports and computer networks, will expose them to attacks by computer hackers. While use of networks can increase exposure to attacks on information systems, assets and databases, security threats can be faced effectively by gathering the proper Expertise, Software products and redesign of the Organization. The presentation discusses IT security with the intention of putting these threats into realistic perspective by identifying the areas that represent the most frequent threats, and providing solutions and strategies for planning IT security so that your organization’s information, communications and e-business assets are protected.

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