Baltimore Tech-Security Conference

Manu Namboodiri
Vice President of Marketing

Slashing security costs and complexity : An information-centric approach to data protection

Organizations are investing heavily in multiple products to protect sensitive and personal data. These include device-based defenses (such as disk encryption), network-based defenses (such as VPNs and Firewalls) and application-specific defenses. What do they all have in common? They are, in fact, all trying to protect the data - not the device, not the network, and not the port. Taking a piecemeal, device or network-centric approach to data protection only increases costs and complexity. Trends point to an information or data-centric approach - that is, one that truly focuses on protecting the data itself - at all times. This logical approach reduces costs and complexity and will serve as the security & privacy paradigm of tomorrow.

This session will investigate the top 5 security myths of today, the evolving nature of data and why current approaches to protection are swiftly becoming obsolete. We will further delve into the promise of an information-centric approach, the essential requirements of a solution, and the roadmap of how this can be achieved.

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Seven Steps to Delivering a Secure USB Drives Strategy and Policy!

Jim Shaeffer
President

Developing, Implementing and Enforcing an Internet Acceptable Use Policy (IAUP)

The Internet can be a wonderful source of information that can enhance employee productivity and increase the bottom line of your organization.

It can also provide access to a vast amount of purely entertainment-related materials that can threaten your organization.

Find out how you can easily develop an Internet Acceptable Use Policy, communicate that policy to your employees and monitor their use of the internet.

A baseline Network Quality Assurance Assessment is the first step to providing clear, empirical metrics that will allow you to develop a policy for your organization.

Productivity will increase with an IAUP in place, coupled with enforcement using PC and Internet activity Employee Monitoring Software.

With an IAUP backed by effective PC and Internet activity monitoring software, employees will be more focused and on task, arrive to work earlier and stay later, take fewer breaks during the day, and rarely - if ever - use PCs for frivolous or inappropriate nonwork-related activity.

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Paul LaPorte
Global Marketing Solutions Marketing Manager

Lower Your TCO: Email Security in the Cloud

Learn how "in the cloud" email security solutions can greatly reduce up-front investments, minimize ongoing administration costs and minimize time-to-value. Advances in cloud computing and SaaS hold the key to achieving the lowest TCO and maximizing your ROI, while providing the anti-spam, anti-virus, DLP, archiving and encryption features you need to meet today's email security challenges.

In this session, we'll discuss:

• What features - beyond availability, effectiveness, and scalability -- you should consider when evaluating email security solutions
• How "in-the-cloud" and hybrid solutions can solve more unique business problems than on-premises solutions alone
• How the latest innovations in email security in the cloud, deliver more flexibility, control and security than ever before
• How Total Cost of Ownership for in-the-cloud and hybrid solutions stack up to traditional, on-premises email security solutions
• Why now might be the right time to switch to a next-generation, SaaS email security solution to minimize your TCO
  

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Ken Pappas

How to Proactively Protect Against Next Generation Network Threats - Meet Security and Compliancy Requirements and Keep Your Network Safe in a Down Economy

This educational session will focus on:

• The next generation of network threats and increased risk in a depressed economy
• Automating strategies to defeat threats
• How to proactively protect your network from threats including malicious content, undesired access, and rate-based attacks using the latest network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and Network Access Control (NAC) technologies
• Addressing PCI, GLBA and HIPAA compliance requirements
  

Matt Walsh and Jesse Fuquay

10 Data Protection Myths Dispelled

Fact or Faction: Companies only need tape backup for optimal data protection. Not sure? When it comes to managing your company's storage environment, it's hard to make good decisions without the proper insight. This presentation will outline the top 10 data protection myths and provide the tools you need to make the best decisions for data protection optimization. We will discuss common storage myths like "Won't clustering protect my company in the event of a disaster?" and "Isn't replication too expensive and complex for our server system?" and explain why these ideas are unfounded. We will also outline alternatives to clustering and illustrate how companies can use technologies like asynchronous replication in their storage environments to effectively protect important data and information.

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Dave Butcher

Understanding Managed File Transfer - Insights & Best Practices

As IT departments continually adopt new technologies to improve the performance of their systems, productivity of their end users and relationships with trading partners, they are faced with numerous challenges. One such challenge companies face today is securing and automating large file transfers. Traditional file transfer systems and mediums no longer meet the needs of most organizations or their trading partners, especially when data exposure is a concern. Many organizations have developed in-house solutions that are difficult to manage, lack the ability to track and audit file transfers, and expose the organization to security breaches. A Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution should be secure, easy to manage, and have the flexibility to integrate with existing technologies.

In this presentation, you will:

• Gain a better understanding of the business challenges and drivers of file transfers.
• Identify the security concerns around traditional file transfer systems and mediums.
• Learn best practices to develop security architectures for file transfers.
• Understand how a MFT solution can meet the needs of your stakeholders

Marc Solomon
Senior Director, Product Management

The New "Insider" Threat - Extending Device and Data Protection to the Mobile Workforce

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Dan Berr

The greatest threat to data and corporate reputation comes from inside the organization, from authorized users