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Tech-Security Conference 2011


Detroit Tech-Security Conference

Date: Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011
Location:

Embassy Suites Detroit - Livonia/Novi
19525 Victor Parkway
Livonia, MI 48152
p:734.462.6000

>>click here for directions

Overview

The Detroit Tech-Security Conference features 25-30 vendor exhibits and several industry experts discussing current tech-security issues such as email security, VoIP, LAN security, wireless security, USB drives security & more. There will be lots of give a ways and prizes such as iPods, $25, $50 and $100 gift cards, as well as cash prizes and lots more! This unique conference format will provide educational speaker sessions as well as tremendous networking opportunities. You'll come away with advice and knowledge you can start applying to your environment immediately. To register for this conference, click on the link in the left column. Your registration will include your breakfast, lunch, conference materials and entrance into the conference sessions and exhibit area. Scroll down to view the full conference agenda.

For information on participating as a vendor: sales@dataconnectors.com


Agenda:  
8:15am-8:45am Check-In and Opening Introductions
Data Connectors Data Connectors is proud to host the Tech-Security Strategies Conference.
8:45am-9:30am Session One

NitroSecurity, Inc.

Terry Stuart, Senior Security Engineer

The Trusted Insider Threat - Lessons learned from WikiLeaks

Protecting against and detecting potential data leakage is at the heart of the WikiLeaks controversy. However there is no "one size fits all" solution. It must be addressed at multiple levels with collaborating technologies, including SIEM, database monitoring and application monitoring, to provide the most complete prevention and detection strategy possible

Join Terry Stuart, Senior Security Engineer, NitroSecurity to understand the lessons learned from WikiLeaks and the strategies and technologies available today that can best address this multi-layered threat.

>>click here for the presentation

9:30am-10:00am Break/Vendor Booth Time
10:00am-10:45am Session Two

Cyber-Ark Software, Ltd.

Ron Zoran, Sr. Director

Privileged Passwords Management

 

10:45am-11:30am Session Three

Axway

Steve Jordan, Director, Supply Chain Solutions

Managed File Transfer: Insights and Best Practices

In this session you will learn about the many aspects of securing file transfers both internally and with partners and customers.

Learn what organizations have done in the past to transfer files

  • What is FTP, and why it is ubiquitous and a problem
  • Understanding Managed File Transfer
  • A look at things we do today to move files for differing reasons

Understand the reasons organizations transfer files through patterns of file transfer

  • Application integration
  • Multi-site integration
  • Business to business communication
  • Portal based file transfers
  • Human to human ad-hoc transfers

Discover best practices for creating solutions that securely satisfy your organizations file transfer needs

  • Creating architectures that provide confidentiality, integrity and availability for transfers
  • Building a flexible platform that satisfies multiple file transfer patterns
  • Providing governance of file transfers through visibility and control of transfers
  • Creating a solution that is operationally efficient

>>click here for the presentation

11:30am-12:00pm Break/Vendor Booth Time
12:00pm-12:45pm Session Four (includes lunch)

Top Layer Networks

Stephen Gates

Is your Network Really Protected? How to Proactively Protect Against Network Threats in 2011 and Beyond

Learn How to Protect Your Enterprise Network and Meet Compliancy Requirements

  • This presentation will discuss real-world network threats facing organizations in 2011 and beyond.
  • You'll learn critical steps to protect against the new generation of threats and help meet compliancy requirements.

Discover How Intrusion Prevention System Technology Can Fill the Gaps

  • Discover how traditional "Perimeter Defense" strategies can leave your network vulnerable to the next generation of threats.
  • Understand how Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) technology has evolved to protect against the newest threats.

See "Cyber Attack and Defense Demo" Showing the Power of IPS

  • Visual demonstration of how a system can be completely compromised while being "protected" by a Firewall.
  • How Top Layer's IPS 5500 can block the attack and subsequent compromise.
12:45pm-1:00pm Break/Vendor Booth Time
1:00pm-1:45pm Session Five

WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

William Larsen, Sales Engineer

Web is the Battlefield

Today, new Internet and social media applications are a common source of vulnerabilities. Join William Larsen for a discussion of the current threat landscape and how a defense-in-depth approach thoroughly protects networks from online attacks. With an emphasis on application control, see common Web 2.0 attacks and how to fight back.

>>click here for the presentation

1:45pm-2:30pm Session Six

Centrify Corporation

Louise Popyk, Senior Systems Engineer

Centralizing Data Center Security to Simplify Compliance

Join this session to learn how to prevent insider attacks and more easily pass audits in mixed system data centers comprised of UNIX, Linux and Mac systems. Learn how to protect systems and data, manage user access and privileges, and audit and report on rights and privileges using an IT asset you likely already own - Active Directory.

>>click here for the presentation

2:30pm-2:45pm Break/Vendor Booth Time
2:45pm-3:30pm Session Seven

AmeriNet

paloalto Networks

Patrick Urwin, Regional Sales Manager

Ethan West, Systems Engineer

Threats, “You don’t know what you don’t know”

Today’s threat landscape is constantly evolving and new threats are popping up every day. How can you protect your organization from today’s threat landscape and those threats you may not even know about yet?

Patrick Urwin, Regional Sales Manager at Palo Alto Networks, brings a wealth of networking and security experience with over 22 years of practical knowledge. Patrick started his career in the late 1980’s as a systems programmer and developer. Patrick spent 10 years as a systems integrator architecting and designing secure routed networks for customers primarily in the Columbus, OH area. For the past 9 years, Patrick has worked directly for security manufacturers – RSA Security, Blue Coat Systems, and Trend Micro. Patrick draws on this experience of networking and security in representing the next-generation firewall technology at Palo Alto Networks.

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3:30pm-3:45pm

Break/Vendor Booth Time

Prize Drawings For All In Attendance

3:45pm-4:30pm Session Eight

Fortinet, Inc.

Jim Overbeck, Central US Director, Fortinet

SunTel Services

Got Security Consolidation?

  • NGFW vs UTM: Security consolidation defined
  • Debunking the “eggs all in one basket” myth
  • Performance advantage: Why less is more
  • Finally an ROI without fuzzy math
  • Enterprise class security across the WAN
  • Unlocking the consolidation combination that’s right for your company

Jim Overbeck manages a highly skilled team of enterprise sales and engineering talent. Jim’s team consults with, designs and deploys Fortinet’s market leading solutions to major accounts in the Central US. Jim has over 13 years of technical and sales experience in the networking and information security industry including the last 8 years at Fortinet. He earned a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration at Miami University in Oxford, OH.

Prize Drawings For All In Attendance

4:30pm-5:15pm Session Nine

Entrust

Jennifer Binet

Leveraging the Platform: consolidating your authentication processes

 

 

>>click here for the presentation

  Prize Drawings For All In Attendance
   

Event Sponsors/Exhibitors

Top Layer Networks
Network Critical Solutions Limited
Ping Identity Corporation
Cyber-Ark Software, Ltd.
Arcot Systems, Inc.
WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Infoblox Inc.
Discovery Solutions, Inc.
Management Communication Services, Inc.
Alert Logic
NitroSecurity, Inc.
Protegrity Corporation
Sophos PLC
Axway
Jacadis, LLC
Centrify Corporation
AmeriNet
paloalto Networks
M86 Security
Novell, Inc.
Gigamon
ShoreNet Solutions LLC
Shavlik Technologies, LLC
SunTel Services
Fortinet, Inc.
Vormetric
Imperva
Safend
Enterasys Networks, Inc.
AlgoSec, Inc.
Voltage Security, Inc.
Certes Networks, Inc.
NetClarity, Inc.
SafeNet
CentraComm
St. Bernard Software Inc., dba EdgeWave
LANDesk Software
Endace Limited
Nexum, Inc.
Varonis Systems
Damballa, Inc.
Guidance Software Inc.
Accuvant, Inc.
Entrust
 

 

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