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Program Agenda

Show doors open at 9am. All times are US Eastern.

Opening Keynote Address
Turning IT Audit and Compliance into a Business Accelerator

11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. ET

Compliance with PCI, SOX, HIPAA and GLBA doesn't necessarily make your IT infrastructure more secure. However, savvy business managers can use compliance activities to dramatically lower operational costs while creating a well-managed network into the bargain. Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards and other regulatory mandates translate into audit and remediation actions that all businesses must undertake.

This keynote address will set the stage for changing security indicatives from costly impediments to daily business to practical projects that make IT less risky. When undertaken with even a modest amount of planning, conformance to external regulations can streamline business and reduce liability while also making future business growth easier by reducing unnecessary IT complexity. In many cases, no additional budget spend is required to make your enterprise more secure, agile and compliant.

You'll get a top-level view of how to position compliance activities so that costs are minimized and real security and business productivity are the outcomes. We will focus on technologies that are vital to the SME world, providing guidelines that will help you establish a technology priority list for your company.

Moderator: Michael Krieger, VP, Market Experts Group, Ziff Davis Enterprise
Speaker: Cameron Sturdevant, West Coast Technical Director, eWEEK Labs

Hot Button Panel One:
Endpoint Security

1:00 – 1:45 p.m. ET

Among the issues to be discussed is the role of the Web browser as a gateway into increasingly popular Software as a Service offerings in the SME market, as well as security strategies for shoring up client systems running Microsoft’s Windows operating systems.

Desktop and Notebook Hardening - The perimeter has dissolved. Precious corporate data rides around the world on multiple machines, connecting too many different networks. Businesses need to sort out what strategies to follow – to harden the machines to limit their exposure and to secure the data to keep out prying eyes.

Securing Your Browser - SaaS is ideal for many small and medium enterprises because the software provider handles the operation, maintenance, support and upgrades of commercial software programs. While SaaS applications hosted, they rely on the proper configuration of client-side Web browsers to operate securely.

Moderator: Joel Shore, eSeminars & Virtual Tradeshows Host, Ziff Davis Enterprise
Speaker: Jim Rapoza, Chief Technology Analyst, eWEEK Labs
Speaker: Ron Culler, Chief Information Officer, Secure Designs Inc.
Speaker: William Bell, Director of Information Security, EC Suite LLC

Hot Button Panel Two:
Managing Your Mobile Security

3:00 – 3:45 p.m. ET

In today’s world, your employees are no longer tied to their desks. They are making client calls, traveling on business and working at home — or at the nearest Starbucks. The flexibility to work anywhere, anytime rests on a foundation of mobility solutions, including laptops, tablet PCs, PDAs, cell phones and wireless networks, all of which present particular security challenges.

Wireless Network Security - Wireless networks are increasingly important for companies instituting new business initiatives - whether they are bringing online new mobile applications or restructuring the physical plant for flexible workspaces. The current wireless privacy standards are rock-solid nowadays, but what are the best ways to implement them to support the wide array of devices and platforms that compose a network?

Mobile Device Management - For many users, a smart phone is desk phone and laptop computer all in one - THE essential tool for conducting business both in and out of the office. Companies need to find the right tools to help them standardize their device fleet as much as possible - to maintain consistent and stable experience, to quickly perform necessary upgrades or troubleshooting wherever the user may be, or to efficiently nuke the device from orbit when (not if) it goes missing.

Moderator: Joel Shore, eSeminars & Virtual Tradeshows Host, Ziff Davis Enterprise
Speaker: Andrew Garcia, Senior Technical Analyst, eWEEK Labs
Speaker: Michael Voellinger, Vice President, Enterprise Mobile Solutions, Telwares
Speaker: Emmitt R. Wells CCIE, Consulting Practice Director, Getronics

Hot Button Panel Three:
Threat Modeling for the Rest of Us

5:00 – 5:45 p.m. ET

The idea of threat modeling as a risk assessment technique has been used to perfection by heavyweights to prioritize threats and use budgets (resources) to put mitigation strategies in place to address the most dangerous ones.

For SMBs and even SMEs, there is a perception that "threat modeling" is a bloated, labor-intensive process that costs too much and doesn't offer tangible ROI.

This perception is wrong! This panel will offer an approach to threat modeling for the rest of us, providing real-world examples of how asset evaluation and real-world threat scenarios can help with IT security spending decisions.

Moderator: Cameron Sturdevant, West Coast Technical Director, eWEEK Labs
Speaker: Steve Taylor, Chief Technology Officer, Plan B Technologies
Speaker: Dave Goldsmith, President and Co-Founder, Matasano Security
Speaker: Deepak Thadani, President and CEO, SysIntegrators, LLC
Speaker: Howard Gill, Senior Manager, MorganFranklin