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Along with receiving expert advice, free breakfast and lunch, all related seminar materials and a complete PowerPoint presentation with all our speakers' notes and slides, you'll also have the chance to return home with a Canon Powershot Digital Camera when you attend!

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Data Protection: Preventing Data Theft and Loss

Applications, databases, email systems and the Internet may manage and distribute a great deal of enterprise information, but unstructured 'file' data still runs the world. User generated documents, spreadsheets, files, etc. are created and leveraged on the 'front lines' and play a critical role in organizations of all sizes.

User created data is often undervalued by IT organizations and viewed more as a nuisance than a business asset. Data access controls are completely inadequate to address data leakage, data content and data management issues in the enterprise.

The challenge is that information is everywhere, and trusted insiders can access and transfer it from multiple applications and devices. This free 1-day seminar explores both security and storage technologies that address data leakage, data protection and data governance. We offer essential practices and technology solutions for protecting data in three basic states: at rest, in motion and in use.

Constructed in a two-track format, you benefit from essential seminar sessions:

Key Principles of Protecting Your Data

Managing Information Risk: Using Controls & Policies to Prevent Information Leakage

Tools & Techniques for Clobbering Data Leakage

Data Protection Strategy Panel

Enterprise Files & Data Leakage Risks

Technology Trends for File Data & Risk Management

Double Jeopardy - Creating a Data Protection Program

Admission is FREE but seating is limited. Apply today.

Session Descriptions

General Session: Key principles of protecting your data

Many enterprises are not attuned to the larger, strategic issues required to protect the lifecycle of data - in motion, in use and at rest. Join our speakers as they explore the foundational principles for data protection, discussing key enterprise-wide requirements for policy, process and technology. Co-lead by our security and storage experts the session is designed as a "level-set" for the breakout sessions that follow. Topics include:

Data as an asset
Attributes of data
Enterprise data protection policies
Data classification schemes
Compliance and standards
Data governance frameworks
Information lifecycle management (ILM)
Essential practices for technology selection
Intersection between data and identity

Track One: Securing Data in Motion

Session 1: Managing information risk: Using controls & policies to prevent information leakage (10:40 a.m.)

Information can escape from your organization through every end point and device, and it's your job to make sure that data doesn't get into the wrong hands that could cause your company's trade secrets to become public knowledge. Even worse, your customer's data could leak out and next thing you know, you are facing a law suit. In this session, our Burton Group expert shows you:

How a layered defense aligns with content management, role management and applications
The critical non-technical controls that also help to keep data confidential
When you should encrypt, rights management, network content filters, endpoint agents and other vendor solutions be deployed

Session 2 : Tools & techniques for clobbering data leakage (1:40 p.m.)

Do you cringe when you read about a lost laptop? Are you nervous that your Internet connection might be a giant intellectual-property sieve? Despite widespread regulatory and contractual stipulations for data protection, chances are that your organization hasn't developed a wholly effective architecture for thwarting sensitive information leakage. It's even less likely that you've dovetailed defense in depth with a holistic content management strategy that addresses confidentiality alongside additional security objectives such as the retention concerns brought on by e-discovery requirements.

In this session, our security guru from the Burton Group evaluates various protection technologies and strategies within the framework of a comprehensive information risk management strategy. Attend and discover:

Why data loss protection is part of a larger information risk management problem that also encompasses data retention (e-discovery), integrity and other concerns
What protection technologies make sense in various security layers - perimeter, identity and access, point-of-use and repositories

Panel Discussion

Session 3: Data protection strategy panel

In this session we'll get the perspective of industry vendor experts who advise numerous customers on how to tactically solve data security challenges. Panelists will be joined by seminar speakers/moderators to explore how to leverage IT security tools to address security intelligence imperatives. Topics include:

From the front lines: Vendors relate common customer problems and solutions via case studies
Tips on how to select the right solutions for your enterprise without breaking the bank
Explore both security and storage technologies that address data leakage, data protection and data governance
Technology must-haves for all security-focused tools for data protection in three basic states: at rest, in motion and in use

Track Two: Procedures for Storage Security

Session 1: Enterprise files & data leakage risks (10:40 a.m.)

In this session, our GlassHouse Technologies expert reviews how organizations depend on and use file data. He discusses why traditional Information Risk Management (IRM) models are failing to address the risks of data leakage and loss and how emerging Information Classification & Management technologies apply. He also covers:

Why the risk is real - data leakage examples
The critical role of files
Emerging technologies - Information Classification & Management (data management, security and search)

Session 2: Technology trends for file data & risk management (1:40 p.m.)

Our storage expert explores a new breed of data-loss prevention technology vendors. He outlines how organizations can successfully adapt traditional IRM models and close critical gaps in information control. During this hour, he gives you information on:

Emerging technologies - Data loss prevention
How to identify your gaps and priorities in information risk technology frameworks
How to adapt traditional IRM frameworks to address data leakage

General Session: Double jeopardy - creating a data protection program

During this very dynamic session, we bring both our speakers on stage for an interactive quiz. Review what you have learned throughout the day, and take this opportunity to ask any remaining unanswered questions. Even better? The session reviews some key points from the sessions you could not attend, ensuring you don't miss a beat. Test your knowledge on: