Organizations still have perimeter-based systems that need attention; everything from your Web presence to your email system to file transfer servers and network infrastructure devices. This session explores the dangerous assumptions and oversights related network perimeter security along with what you can do to find the critical flaws and ensure your most critical systems are protected from the elements.
Patching, system hardening and related security management practices seem trivial but with so many flaws still present in any given network environment they can not be overlooked. This session explores the common security vulnerabilities found at the OS level and shows you what malicious insiders can do to make your life difficult with nothing more than free tools and little to no technical skills. In addition our expert speaker offers some simple methods for plugging various security holes to keep your internal network environment locked down.
Whether they're used inside or outside your physical environment, mobile devices create what are arguably the greatest IT-related risks in business today. This session covers widespread security oversights related to smartphones, mobile storage devices and wireless networks and outlines technologies and business process tweaks you can use to get your mobile workforce under control once and for all.
Understanding the value of any asset in your organization will help determine the risk of its loss. This track by details the importance of using a formal system to determine the value of each asset and the liability that comes with losing it. Having a risk analysis process in place will help IT organizations prioritize systems and put better data protection plans in place.
Data loss protection ranked among the top solutions IT security pros were investing in during 2010, according to a TheInfoPro Heat Index survey. This session explores what companies are most commonly using data loss/leakage protection for today. The specific benefits that companies have experienced from implementing data loss / leakage protection solutions are also illustrated.
Through encryption and digital rights management, IT organizations can centrally manage users and their encrypted data, devices and email. It also creates a system to manage internal security policies. This session provides more detail around the benefits of encryption and rights management and what this means to your overall data protection strategy.