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Smart Defenses: Managing Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Security Information. A free 1-day seminar designed to leverage technologies and policies to protect the enterprise.

Many organizations take a "reactive" approach to threats and vulnerabilities--an outdated approach that leaves high-value data and intellectual property exposed. This virtual seminar explores how to build and maintain a more agile, proactive defense model that reduces the risk of malware, application attacks and emerging Web 2.0 threats. Attend and learn about layered defenses, integrated security, threat/vulnerability correlation and how to bring it all together within an intelligent security information management framework.

Benefit from four key sessions focused on:

How to Make Your IDS Useful

Log Management meets SaaS: Marriage of Convenience or Match Made in Heaven?

Case Study: How SIMs Saved the Day

Endpoint Security Suites: New Features, New Value?

Five Myths of Threat Management

Know Your Roles: Log Monitoring at the Application Level

Live Q&A with Ed Skoudis

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Session Descriptions

Session 1: How to Make Your IDS Useful

The areas of intrusion detection and intrusion prevention have changed in the past few years. In some ways, they have merged into a single offering. Intrusion prevention tools are often deployed in a monitor only mode with actual blocking and prevention coming after extensive testing. However, intrusion detection as pure network packet capture for historical investigative and awareness purposes has evolved into its own separate market. In this session Joel Snyder explores the multi-faceted intrusion detection and prevention markets and dives into:

• Dynamic learning and anomaly detection
• What's worse? Virus outbreak or business shutdown?
• The intrusion detection/prevention convergence
• Host-based and network-based Intrusion detection/prevention systems
• Content filtering and data leak prevention
• Capturing the packets for audit and troubleshooting
• Identity based approaches
• Integration with SIM or SEM
  

Session 2: Log Management meets SaaS: Marriage of Convenience or Match Made in Heaven?

Understanding the activity that occurs on your company's network is critical for overall security, making log management an essential aspect of protecting confidential assets. These security solutions have traditionally been software and application based, but SaaS tools are beginning to offer options with enhanced features that are affordable alternatives for many organizations. Attend and get a comparison of SaaS log management solutions and traditional software and application packages and examine the ways that SaaS tools will continue to affect the information security market.

Session 3: Case Study: How SIMs Saved the Day

Security information management systems automate the process of looking through logs to help produce effective reports, issue alerts and provide a bird's eye view into the network. In this session Interval International CISO, Sasan Hamidi explains the reasons he opted for a SIMs and reviews his lessons learned. Gain first-hand advice on:

• How to make a business case for SIMs: successfully sell the project to upper management
• RFP process, test and perfect the offerings
• Integration and deployment: successes and setbacks
• How to manage the technology and customize reports to best meet your needs
• Message rates, man hours spent on tuning, filtering messages and number of false positives

Session 4: Endpoint Security Suites: New Features, New Value?

Despite their potential, the market for endpoint security suites is only now coming into its own. A number of products have yet to mature and many enterprise security managers are struggling to understand where endpoint security suites fit into their overall network defense strategies. Attend and get an overview of the current and emerging features in today's endpoint security suites, and how to best make use of those features for improved host security. You'll learn:

• How endpoint security suite features compare to those in standalone products
• Deciding if the level of maturity in current products justifies the investment
• The ways that rapid industry consolidation is affecting the market
• Planning and preparing for an endpoint security suite implementation
• And more
  

Session 5: Five Myths of Threat Management

There are many common misconceptions thrown at you everyday about how to protect your organization. In this dynamic session, Joel Snyder, senior partner, Opus One, helps to demystify these defenses and gives you the straight answers. He takes a look at:

• Intrusion Defense
• Malware protection
• Application layer threats
• How to deal with upcoming threats
• Budget issue

Session 6: Know Your Roles: Log Monitoring at the Application Level

You've rolled out hundreds of applications, from packaged ERP to legacy to Web. Perhaps you've also installed identity and access control systems on top of these. Now you have hundreds of user roles accessing multiple systems and generating millions of events per day. How will you connect the dots and determine which events are risky? For example, will you know when a Sales employee accesses revenue data within your homegrown financial app in the middle of the night, and then prints out a large number of files? Do you have a monitoring system in place to catch events across multiple systems and devices? Attend and learn:

• How application monitoring allows you to connect the dots across systems and assess business risk
• How to manage users getting information outside of the scope of their role or group membership
• Why custom applications don't have to be an easy target for malicious insiders
  
  

Session 7: Live Q&A with Ed Skoudis

Ed Skoudis is a founder and senior security consultant with Intelguardians, a Washington, DC-based information security consulting firm. He is standing by, ready to answer any questions you have relating to hacker attacks and defenses, the information security industry, and computer privacy issues. Take advantage of this opportunity to ask our expert questions to ensure your organization is taking all of the necessary precautions to prevent an attack.

 

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