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Executive Alliance Invites Nominations for the Information Security Executive of the Year Northeast Awards 2008

Achievements by Information Security Executives and Project Teams to be Recognized

ATLANTA - May 11, 2008 - Executive Alliance, creator and provider of premium leadership-recognition forums worldwide, announced the official Call for Nominations for the Information Security Executive (ISE) of the Year Northeast Awards 2008 and the new Information Project Security Executive of the Year Award.

The coveted ISE Northeast Awards is presented to a chief security officer or executive in an equivalent position who has made a positive impact in the industry through risk management, data asset protection, regulatory compliance, privacy, and information security.

Brand new in 2008, the Information Security Project of the Year Award honors the team behind the project. This accolade is presented to a project team that has successfully completed an information security project in the past 12-18 months that greatly impacted an organizationfs risk management or information security posture.

Achievements will be highlighted in the government/academic and commercial categories. Eligible nominees are selected from the Northeast region, including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Nomination forms, eligibility criteria and other details for this prestigious award are currently available at www.infosecaward.com. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, August 22, 2008. The winners will be named at the celebrated ISE Northeast Awards Gala on Thursday, October 16, 2008 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City, NY.

The ISE Northeast Nominees and Project Teams are invited to participate in the Executive Forum comprised of cutting-edge forums, speakers, and presentations in a relaxed environment that allows industry leaders to interact and network with their peers.

"The ISE Northeast Awards brings together an impressive representation of security leadership from a cross-section of industries in the Northeast region," said Marci McCarthy, CEO of Executive Alliance. "The program will be rich in content and provide opportunities for these leaders to discuss their challenges and solutions and also recognize the outstanding contributions of their peers in this industry."

Registration for the Executive Forum and tickets for the Dinner and ISE Northeast Awards Gala will be available Monday, July 14, 2008 at www.infosecaward.com.

About the Sponsors

The Executive Alliance Leadership Summit Featuring the ISE Northeast Awards 2008 is the property of Executive Alliance, Inc., and is brought to the business community by the following: Gigabyte Sponsor - Aveksa; Megabyte Sponsors - Agilysys, ArcSight, Fortify, Ounce Labs, Symantec; Kilobyte Sponsors - Apani, Brabeion, Cenzic, ChosenSecurity, Courion, nCircle, Passlogix, Protegrity, Reconnex, Secerno, Stonesoft, and Websense. IT Education Sponsor - Security University. Media Sponsors - InformationWeek Magazine and Infosecurity Magazine US Edition.

Aveksa was founded by a team of identity and access management pioneers, whose successful track records include Netegrity, Banyan Systems and PowerSoft. They recognized that businesses are struggling to achieve good security governance across the enterprise and to manage the risk of inappropriate access to enterprise information assets.

To help security teams and business managers collaborate on these objectives, Aveksa has focused on the automation of the many critical, yet manual tasks associated with access governance, risk and compliance management across the enterprise. We believe that in order to rapidly respond to security and regulatory demands, organizations need Enterprise Access Governance - robust, auditable business processes that enable policy-based automation and deliver visibility into who has access to what; how they got that access; whether they should have access; and whether security and compliance objectives are being met.

About Executive Alliance

Executive Alliance is recognized worldwide as the premier organization for creating leadership recognition forums that honor and celebrate outstanding achievements of executives in different industries. These forums facilitate deep relationships and provide visibility for executives and their companies while offering access and insight to the key people leading these industries.

Recognized by Morgan Keegan as the largest most widely recognized awards program for IT security executives, the Executive Alliance ISE Award Program Series includes these regions and cities, Southeast/Atlanta; Central/Dallas; Mid-Atlantic/Washington, DC; United Kingdom/London, England; West/San Francisco; Northeast/New York City; and North America/Washington, D.C. Included in the Executive Alliance series is the Data Center Executive of the Year Awards (DaCEY). For more information, visit www.infosecaward.com or www.datacenterawards.com.