Boston Tech-Security Conference

Nick Lantuh
President

How to Stop Serious Threats from Evading Detection

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Jon Friedman
Director of Marketing

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

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Jim Shaeffer
CEO

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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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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Lisbi Abraham

Data Loss Prevention: The Enemy Within

A recent study by the Ponemon Institute revealed that insiders were behind about 75 percent of all breaches in the U.S. This exposes a major vulnerability, one which most companies are embarrassed to admit exists.

While IT departments are concentrating on keeping hackers out, trusted employees may be hooking their iPods up to computers, downloading and walking away with corporate information. Employees have the potential to cause the most damage. They know their company's potential weaknesses. They also know what to do with confidential information once it gets out. One important way to combat this unfortunate situation is for companies to find ways to lock down data and keep track of employees' access.

This session is designed to not only focus on the importance of protecting your company from internal threats, but on preventing this devastating crisis from occurring and understanding your options once such an event has occurred.

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Mike Paquette
V.P. & Chief Strategy Officer

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)
• Addressing PCI, GLBA and HIPAA compliance requirements
  

Mike Stewart and John Feeks

Data Sustainability on a Budget

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Sandy Hawke
Senior Director of Product Marketing

Taking the Cost, Complexity, and Hassle Out of Endpoint Security Compliance

Preparing for an audit is time consuming and costly. The consequences for failing an audit are even worse. But, worst of all is the ongoing cost in time and money ensuring your systems stay in compliance AND you're still meeting existing IT security, availability, productivity, and cost reduction goals.

Unfortunately, shrinking IT budgets won't give organizations a free pass when it comes to compliance with information security regulations. Organizations must find ways to cut costs and still maintain compliance with configuration requirements - for a variety of regulatory requirements and corporate governance programs.

Attend this session to find out how to:

• Gain real-time visibility into endpoint configuration
• Achieve continuous compliance
• Perform assessment and remediation from a single point of control
• Do all the above - faster, and with less resources

BigFix®, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise systems and security management solutions that revolutionizes the way IT organizations manage and secure their computing infrastructures. Based on an a single agent, single console architecture that distributes management intelligence directly to the computing devices themselves, BigFix is radically faster, scalable, more accurate and adaptive than legacy management software.

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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