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Alliance and Sophos at Data Connectors Security Conference on March 10th
- from Alliance Technologies webpage
link: http://www.alliancetechnologies.net/news/alliance-and-sophos-data-connectors-security-conference-march-10th
Posted on February 18, 2011
Please join Alliance Technologies and Sophos at the Data Connectors Tech-Security Conference in Des Moines on Thursday March 10th 2011.
Alliance Technologies and Sophos, the security experts, team up to provide customers with added value and security for their IT budgets.
Sophos protects against known and unknown threats transmitted via email, the web, and removable storage devices. We control the use of unwanted applications such as file sharing, instant messaging and VoIP; and prevent data leakage with easy-to-use file encryption technology to protect confidential and sensitive data.
The Des Moines Tech-Security Conference will feature 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.
Tech-Security
Conference Dramatizes Problem of Data Leakage
Security News - Solutions/Issues
Written by Dennis Fletcher, Fletcher Marketing
Friday, 01 February 2008
Thousands of laptops are reported stolen annually,
but industry is doing little to protect the data that
may be compromised after the loss.
For the seventh time in as many years, the Tech-Security
Conference returned this week to Southern California
as part of a cross-country tour in which attendees heard
both technical presentations and saw the latest in Internet
security products. Those who attended were there because
they needed to keep their employers’ or clients’
networks safe from threats, external as well as internal.
Topics at the conference, held at the Marriott Hotel
in Woodland Hills, covered ways to strengthen incident
response, email security, threats and countermeasures,
secure business solutions, end-point security solutions,
LAN security, the security landscape, and data loss
and leakage. A final indicator of how interested an
attendee was in the overall conference might have been
measured by whether she stayed until the day's final
talk by IBM’s Will Irace describing the holistic
approach that IBM is taking in addressing security threats.
IBM's presentation introduced a new data protection
model to guard against data loss. It employs roadblocks,
password protected ZIP files, visible monitoring, just-in-time
education, full disk encryption, network forensics,
and network appliances.
Among the sobering statistics to emerge from the conference
were:
· Some 673,000 laptops were lost in 2005
· An estimated 11,000 were left behind in taxis.
· The eventual whereabouts of all the laptop
data is anyone's guess!
IBM’s ISS division claims that stopping data leakage
requires a comprehensive suite of security software
and services that begins with an assessment/discovery
process and includes security training prior to installation
of the solutions required.
Others at the conference concerned with data leakage
prevention (DLP) included Carlos Sanz of Lumension Security
(www.lumension.com) who said DLP is a huge issue today
and noted that in California, a loss of data in the
financial services industry requires immediate public
disclosure.
Sarah Jacks of Sendio (www.sendio.com) was there to
show how the company's anti-spam appliance does battle
with the world's purveyors of malware. Like many other
point solutions, the Sendio ICE Box is a separate server
that houses the software products and provides a safe
and stable environment from which to fight malware flooding
the Internet and nosing into companies' email servers.
Dyntek’s Clancy Barham (www.dyntek.com) was demonstrating
how unique each person's keyboarding style is. Think
we all type alike? The company's Bio Password software
can detect the difference between your entering your
ID and password and someone else typing in the exact
same phrases.
Chris Bramhall at TippingPoint (www.tippingpoint.com)
spoke about the firm's Intrusion Prevention System (IPS),
saying that compliance is driving many activities in
network security today and that California has a record
for stronger compliance measures than most.
Pete Elliot and Sandy Nannini of Key Information Systems
(www.keyinfo.com) demonstrated the breadth of IBM/ISS’
network security solutions and stressed the importance
of Key’s assessment process as a critical first
step in initiating an analysis of an enterprise’s
network security needs.
Finally, Don Wisdom of Datalink Networks (www.datalinknetworks.net),
a reseller of security, network, server and storage
solutions, identified what he believes today's preeminent
security issues are as the following:
1. What are effective ways to secure wireless networks?
2. The convergence of data, wireless, and VOIP networks
3. The trend toward security point-products being absorbed
by larger end-to-end solution providers
4. The emergence of network forensics
What did this reporter leave with from the conference?
First, I concluded that the little guys (single product
point solutions) are being gobbled up by those offering
bigger end-to-end solutions. Second, many of the point-solution
ISVs prefer to offer their software in an appliance.
Among the miscellaneous bits of trivia from the show
that suggest malware is a problem growing costlier by
the day are the following:
· It costs $113 per employee per year to find
email erroneously stopped by spam filters (Source: Sendio).
· Some 36 percent of firms in one study lost
business because email went astray.
· One law firm was fined by a district court
because a critical message was lost in a spam filter.
The Data Connectors-sponsored conference moves on to
Nashville Feb. 6, then San Jose on Feb. 20. For the
full schedule, visit http://www.dataconnectors.com/.
Last Updated ( Friday, 01 February 2008 )
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