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Tech-Security Conference 2012


San Jose Tech-Security Conference

Date: Thursday, February 2, 2012
Location:

Network Meeting Center
5201 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara CA. 95054
p:408-562-6111

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Overview

The San Jose 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
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8:45am-9:30am Session One

Bit9

Chris Ito
Robert Zamani

Bit9

Accuvant, Inc.

Protection Against Spear Phishing and the Modern Cyber Threats

Advanced threats target users through email, website, instant messenger, USB devices and social engineering. Traditional blacklist antivirus cannot keep pace with today's modern malware. Join Chris Ito &
Robert Zamani from Bit9 to better understand how hackers are outsmarting traditional security approaches with targeted attacks and spear phishing – the most common technique behind some of today’s most damaging cyber attacks.  Learn how these threats work and the most impactful things you can do to prevent targeted attacks from breaching your organization.

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

Quest

Gary Schick
Sales Director

Keeping Your Business Secure in 2012

If you think the information technology on which your business depends  is safe, think again: IT risks and vulnerabilities aren't going away — they’re multiplying.
Join Quest’s Director of Sales, Gary Schick , as he shows you the dangers your business IT faces in 2012 and what you can do to mitigate them. Gary will discuss:  

• What level of IT security is important to you
• What you need to worry about most—and why
• The good news for IT security in 2012
• 10 ways you can boost your business’ IT security

10:45am-11:30am Session Three

Aruba Networks, Inc.

Kia Baradaran
System Engineer

Get Your Wi-Fi Ready for the iPad

Apple has sold over 52 million iPhones and iPads in the first half of 2011. These employee-owned consumer devices are making their way to the workplace creating a new set of security and management challenges for IT departments. Aruba has developed a new solution to help customers scale their "existing" Wi-Fi network (including Cisco Wi-Fi) and IT helpdesk processes to support productivity enhancing bring-your-own-device initiatives. Aruba's clientless solution provides a mechanism to secure, provision and manage employee-owned devices while minimizing IT overhead.

11:30am-12:00pm Break/Vendor Booth Time/Lunch
12:00pm-12:45pm Session Four

Cyber-Ark Software, Ltd.

Berenice Jacobs, CISSP

Securing Administrative Passwords

Learn the latest strategies and technologies for securely managing privileged identities such as admin, root, sys admin, or any shared ID's as well as applications with embedded passwords.

Privileged Identity Management solutions address these common requirements:

  • Frequent and automated password changes of shared privileged accounts
  • Compliance with FISMA, SOX, PCI, HIPAA, NERC and other federal regulatory mandates 
  • Strong auditing of privileged passwords usage to ensure accountability 
  • Secured long term storage and automatic failover to eliminate risks of loss and to ensure availability during disaster recovery
  • Removing clear text passwords embedded in scripts and applications, and automatically changing them according to corporate policy
  • Automated process to change admin passwords when IT Administrators leave a company or when a contractor is finished with a project
12:45pm-1:00pm Break/Vendor Booth Time
1:00pm-1:45pm Session Five

Varonis Systems

Scott Truchot

ELIMINATING DATA SECURITY THREATS

Unstructured and semi-structured data presents unique challenges to IT organizations when it comes to identifying who has access, who is accessing and most importantly, who should have access to shared Windows, NAS and UNIX folders, SharePoint sites and Exchange mailboxes and public folders. Information Security organizations have traditionally struggled with the overwhelming manual process of enforcing authentication, authorization and accountability controls on these resources as well as identifying data owners who should be making these decisions. Varonis Systems, a global leader in data governance presents new solutions for helping meet these challenges both today and into the future.

Scott Truchot brings over 14 years of technology industry experience to his role as Senior Regional Consulting Engineer at Varonis Systems, a software company specializing in Data Governance.    As a former Director of IT, Scott struggled with the overwhelming manual process involved with enforcing authentication, authorization and accountability controls.  Since joining Varonis in 2007, Scott has helped many companies design, build and maintain flexible, robust and secure information technology systems.

1:45pm-2:30pm Session Six

Centrify Corporation

Darrell Sturdivant
Senior Systems Enginner

Centralizing Identity, Policy and Privilege to Simplify Data Center Security and Compliance

Find out how to prevent insider attacks, simplify internal and external audits in mixed data centers comprised of Windows, UNIX, Linux systems, and control access and policy on Macs, iOS and Android devices. Learn how to protect systems and applications, manage user access and privileges, and audit and report on rights and privileges using an IT asset you already own - Active Directory.

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

WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

Coy Thorp
Security Sales Engineer

Securing the Virtual World

Virtualization is part of an overall trend within IT to centralize administrative tasks while improving scalability and workloads. Questions have arisen around security within virtualized environments and if they are as safe as physical environments or even perhaps safer. This presentation addresses the challenges that are faced and how to tackle them successfully.

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3:30pm-4:15pm Session Eight

paloalto Networks

Darren Rogers
Sr. Sales Engineer

Breaking the Lifecycle of the Modern Threat

Network attacks are becoming both more sophisticated and more common, with all types of enterprises and all types of information being targeted by attackers. In this presentation we will shine light on the lifecycle of a modern network attack to understand how the threat landscape has changed and what is required from us as security professionals to protect our networks and users today. 

4:15pm-5:00pm Session Nine

Axway

Dave Butcher
Director, MFT Product Marketing

Understanding Managed File Transfers: Moving from Chaos to Control

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

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Event Sponsors/Exhibitors

Accuvant, Inc.
Actiance
Aerohive Networks, Inc.
Alert Logic
ArcMail Technology
Aruba Networks, Inc.
Apollo Information Systems Corp.
Axway
Beyond Security
Bit9
Blue Coat Systems
Bradford Networks
Centrify Corporation
Cyber-Ark Software, Ltd.
Cymtec Systems, Inc.
Dimension Data
eEye Digital Security
ESET, LLC
Exinda
F5 Networks, Inc.
Gigamon
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Infoblox Inc.
Interface Masters, Inc.
ISSA Silicon Valley Chapter
Latus Solutions
M86 Security
Meru Networks
Nasuni Corporation
Network Computing Architects Inc.
NEVTEC
nSolutions, Inc.
paloalto Networks
Protegrity Corporation
Quest
Radware Ltd.
Riverbed Technology
SafeNet
Security On Demand™
Sims Recycling Solutions
Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
Sophos PLC
Sourcefire, Inc.
TalariaX Pte Ltd.
Tenable Network Security
Varonis Systems
WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Wave Systems Corp.

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