Virtualization - Going Beyond the Hype - What it Really Means to the Enterprise

Today's IT infrastructure has more data to store and manage, more applications to run and an IT infrastructure that seems to get more complicated by the minute. In the press, we have heard beyond the potentially dramatic cost savings, virtualization can greatly enhance an organization's business agility. And companies that employ clustering, partitioning, workload management and other virtualization techniques to configure groups of servers into reusable pools of resources are better positioned to respond to the changing demands their business places on those resources.

IT departments everywhere are being asked to do more with less, and the name of the game today is resource utilization. Virtualization technologies offer a direct and readily quantifiable means of achieving that mandate by collecting disparate computing resources into shareable pools, encompassing servers, storage, and networks.

If you want to find out how virtualization can simplify your network infrastructure while boosting performance, reduce application down time, improve storage utilization, minimize remote office support costs, and lower hardware and software cost, join us for this discussion.

In this executive roundtable you will discuss with your peers:

• How you can simplify your IT Infrastructure and get more out of your resources
• What virtualization really means to different enterprises and how it is being used
• How virtualization becomes a strategic decision and can be deployed first where its benefits and ROI will be realized most quickly

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

	Andrew Bowden Director, Information Technology SCANA Corporation Biography >
	Robert McKie Director, Information Technology SCANA Corporation Biography >
	Randal M. Senn Chief Information Officer SCANA Corporation Biography >

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Information Security and Risk Management Programs - A Business Imperative

Today’s successful businesses are built and operated by software that houses everything from intellectual property, business processes, customer and financial information, corporate assets to trade secrets. All are vital ingredients that contribute to a company’s growth and competiveness in a global economy. Because of the critical nature of software in business today, the effective management of software risk in an enterprise requires not only executive-level sponsorship and leadership, it is a broad management responsibility that now requires a partnership be built with not only the audit committee of the board of directors, but more importantly, the CEO, CFO, CIO, business unit leaders and the Information Security Executive (ISE). As vulnerabilities may also result in the disclosure of personal and other sensitive information and therefore also impact the roles and responsibilities of management positions throughout the enterprise, it is critical that information security and risk management programs become a “standing” item on everyone’s agenda.

In this executive roundtable, discuss how to utilize proven security strategies such as Business Security Assurance and others that provide organizations a blueprint for minimizing business risks associated with the exploitation of software and vital corporate assets. Also covered in this roundtable will be methods on ways to influence executive management to own the threats to your organizations and buy-in to what is needed to ensure the security of their most important assets....information technology and data. The take away from this roundtable will be shared insight into how to make your security initiatives a business imperative for your organization and how to successfully implement them with sustainable support from executive management and the business units.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Stephen Scharf Chief Information Security Officer Experian Biography >

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Information Security and Risk Management Programs - A Business Imperative

Today’s successful businesses are built and operated by software that houses everything from intellectual property, business processes, customer and financial information, corporate assets to trade secrets. All are vital ingredients that contribute to a company’s growth and competiveness in a global economy. Because of the critical nature of software in business today, the effective management of software risk in an enterprise requires not only executive-level sponsorship and leadership, it is a broad management responsibility that now requires a partnership be built with not only the audit committee of the board of directors, but more importantly, the CEO, CFO, CIO, business unit leaders and the Information Security Executive (ISE). As vulnerabilities may also result in the disclosure of personal and other sensitive information and therefore also impact the roles and responsibilities of management positions throughout the enterprise, it is critical that information security and risk management programs become a “standing” item on everyone’s agenda.

In this executive roundtable, discuss how to utilize proven security strategies such as Business Security Assurance and others that provide organizations a blueprint for minimizing business risks associated with the exploitation of software and vital corporate assets. Also covered in this roundtable will be methods on ways to influence executive management to own the threats to your organizations and buy-in to what is needed to ensure the security of their most important assets....information technology and data. The take away from this roundtable will be shared insight into how to make your security initiatives a business imperative for your organization and how to successfully implement them with sustainable support from executive management and the business units.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

	Phil Agcaoili, CISSP, CISM Sr. Manager, Global Information Security and Compliance Dell Biography >
	Toby Pennycuff Chief Technology Officer J C Penney

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Information Security and Risk Management Programs - A Business Imperative

Today’s successful businesses are built and operated by software that houses everything from intellectual property, business processes, customer and financial information, corporate assets to trade secrets. All are vital ingredients that contribute to a company’s growth and competiveness in a global economy. Because of the critical nature of software in business today, the effective management of software risk in an enterprise requires not only executive-level sponsorship and leadership, it is a broad management responsibility that now requires a partnership be built with not only the audit committee of the board of directors, but more importantly, the CEO, CFO, CIO, business unit leaders and the Information Security Executive (ISE). As vulnerabilities may also result in the disclosure of personal and other sensitive information and therefore also impact the roles and responsibilities of management positions throughout the enterprise, it is critical that information security and risk management programs become a “standing” item on everyone’s agenda.

In this executive roundtable, discuss how to utilize proven security strategies such as Business Security Assurance and others that provide organizations a blueprint for minimizing business risks associated with the exploitation of software and vital corporate assets. Also covered in this roundtable will be methods on ways to influence executive management to own the threats to your organizations and buy-in to what is needed to ensure the security of their most important assets....information technology and data. The take away from this roundtable will be shared insight into how to make your security initiatives a business imperative for your organization and how to successfully implement them with sustainable support from executive management and the business units.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

	Paul de Graaff Global Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President, Global Operations and Systems AIG - American International Group, Inc. ISE Northeast Awards 2008 Nominee, ISE North America Awards 2008 Executive Nominee Commercial Category Biography >
	Marc S. Sokol Vice President, Chief Security Officer and Head of Operational Risk The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America ISE Tri-State Awards 2006 Winner, ISE Tri-State People's Choice Award 2005 Winner Biography >

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Information Security and Risk Management Programs - A Business Imperative

Today’s successful businesses are built and operated by software that houses everything from intellectual property, business processes, customer and financial information, corporate assets to trade secrets. All are vital ingredients that contribute to a company’s growth and competiveness in a global economy. Because of the critical nature of software in business today, the effective management of software risk in an enterprise requires not only executive-level sponsorship and leadership, it is a broad management responsibility that now requires a partnership be built with not only the audit committee of the board of directors, but more importantly, the CEO, CFO, CIO, business unit leaders and the Information Security Executive (ISE). As vulnerabilities may also result in the disclosure of personal and other sensitive information and therefore also impact the roles and responsibilities of management positions throughout the enterprise, it is critical that information security and risk management programs become a “standing” item on everyone’s agenda.

In this executive roundtable, discuss how to utilize proven security strategies such as Business Security Assurance and others that provide organizations a blueprint for minimizing business risks associated with the exploitation of software and vital corporate assets. Also covered in this roundtable will be methods on ways to influence executive management to own the threats to your organizations and buy-in to what is needed to ensure the security of their most important assets....information technology and data. The take away from this roundtable will be shared insight into how to make your security initiatives a business imperative for your organization and how to successfully implement them with sustainable support from executive management and the business units.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Tony Spinelli, CISSP, CISA Senior Vice President, Chief Security & Compliance Officer Equifax ISE Southeast People's Choice Award 2007 Winner, ISE National Awards 2007 Nominee Biography >

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Mitigating Information Risk Challenges in Today's Highly Collaborative and Mobile Business Environment

Data loss prevention (DLP), risk management, compliance, and encryption play significant roles in today's data security strategies. Learn how top companies are solving business challenges related to protecting intellectual property, sensitive corporate data and customer/employee information from misuse by insiders, contractors, business partners, and outsource service providers.

Discussion Topics:

• Requirements for an effective DLP solution
• Fitting DLP into your overall security strategy
• The business values of deploying a DLP solution
• DLP deployment strategies: where to start - host versus network
• Methods of monitoring and managing privileged users and reacting to security compromises
• Strategies for successfully defining, funding and implementing data security projects
• Solving data security needs
• Sound data loss prevention processes & strategies - combining technology, training, processes and policy

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderators

Larry Brock Chief Information Security Officer DuPont ISE Mid-Atlantic Awards 2008 Nominee Biography >

Book Signing

Dr. Dan Geer, Jr., Sc.D., Vice President and Chief Scientist of Verdasys, and renowned security expert

Dr. Geer has recently released a book entitled, "Economics and Strategies of Data Security". Each roundtable attendee will be given a copy of the book and during the breakfast will have an opportunity to have it signed by the author..

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Virtualization - Going Beyond the Hype - What it Really Means to the Enterprise

Today's IT infrastructure has more data to store and manage, more applications to run and an IT infrastructure that seems to get more complicated by the minute. In the press, we have heard beyond the potentially dramatic cost savings, virtualization can greatly enhance an organization's business agility. And companies that employ clustering, partitioning, workload management and other virtualization techniques to configure groups of servers into reusable pools of resources are better positioned to respond to the changing demands their business places on those resources.

IT departments everywhere are being asked to do more with less, and the name of the game today is resource utilization. Virtualization technologies offer a direct and readily quantifiable means of achieving that mandate by collecting disparate computing resources into shareable pools, encompassing servers, storage, and networks.

If you want to find out how virtualization can simplify your network infrastructure while boosting performance, reduce application down time, improve storage utilization, minimize remote office support costs, and lower hardware and software cost, join us for this discussion.

In this executive roundtable you will discuss with your peers:

• How you can simplify your IT Infrastructure and get more out of your resources
• What virtualization really means to different enterprises and how it is being used
• How virtualization becomes a strategic decision and can be deployed first where its benefits and ROI will be realized most quickly
• Where to extend virtualization across the enterprise and make its value dramatically increase to the IT infrastructure

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Ensuring the Security of Sensitive Information While Achieving Compliance in Today's Global Economy

Today, ensuring the security of sensitive information and achieving compliance with global regulatory requirements are among the most critical and, at the same time, the most daunting challenges facing any organization that hopes to operate successfully in today's increasingly open and global arenas. Identity management has emerged as a compelling solution for addressing both the technological and economic obstacles that threaten to thwart efforts to secure information and to comply with regulations as well as an effective method of mitigating risks in an open environment. Furthermore, the expansion of business and regulatory compliance specifications is posing challenges for organizations trying to manage secure access to business-critical data and applications. Additionally, it is increasing the necessity to integrate disparate systems along with more and more customers, partners, consultants, vendors and others requiring access to IT systems.

Discuss with your peers at this executive roundtable:

• How identity management can play a significant role in enabling organizations to meet today's demands for security and compliance.
• How centralized management of sensitive information can automate the processes that enable effective and efficient regulatory compliance and reporting.
• How companies create, manage, and authenticate user identities and broker services based on the identities for use within their corporate enterprise and/or their extranet users.
• How organizations that want to take full advantage of new possibilities for open collaboration with partners and customers must take precautions to fully secure their systems and information.
• How identity management initiatives can bring significant cost savings and competitive advantage to businesses that far exceed the benefits of being secure and compliant.
• How integrating risk management or identity provider metrics into the equation can allow for the development of reports to improve processes, measure organizational efficiency, and provide dashboards and scorecards for your organization.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Steve L. Scott Senior Director of Corporate Information Security Wachovia ISE Southeast Awards 2007 Finalist Biography >

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Ensuring the Security of Sensitive Information While Achieving Compliance in Today's Global Economy

Today, ensuring the security of sensitive information and achieving compliance with global regulatory requirements are among the most critical and, at the same time, the most daunting challenges facing any organization that hopes to operate successfully in today's increasingly open and global arenas. Identity management has emerged as a compelling solution for addressing both the technological and economic obstacles that threaten to thwart efforts to secure information and to comply with regulations as well as an effective method of mitigating risks in an open environment. Furthermore, the expansion of business and regulatory compliance specifications is posing challenges for organizations trying to manage secure access to business-critical data and applications. Additionally, it is increasing the necessity to integrate disparate systems along with more and more customers, partners, consultants, vendors and others requiring access to IT systems.

Discuss with your peers at this executive roundtable:

• How identity management can play a significant role in enabling organizations to meet today's demands for security and compliance.
• How centralized management of sensitive information can automate the processes that enable effective and efficient regulatory compliance and reporting.
• How companies create, manage, and authenticate user identities and broker services based on the identities for use within their corporate enterprise and/or their extranet users.
• How organizations that want to take full advantage of new possibilities for open collaboration with partners and customers must take precautions to fully secure their systems and information.
• How identity management initiatives can bring significant cost savings and competitive advantage to businesses that far exceed the benefits of being secure and compliant.
• How integrating risk management or identity provider metrics into the equation can allow for the development of reports to improve processes, measure organizational efficiency, and provide dashboards and scorecards for your organization.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Lynn Goodendorf Vice President, Risk Management InterContinental Hotels Group Biography >

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You are the Custodian of Data - Sharing, Streamlining and Simplifying a Complex IT Environment

Today's businesses are digitized, online, and growing. CIO's and other senior IT executives are the custodians of the data within their enterprises. Organizations of all sizes continue to generate increasing amounts of data, largely because of a growing number of applications and users generating and accessing data as well as compliance requirements to keep information available and safe. The productivity and viability of organizations are becoming ever more reliant on the ability to store, organize, and share this business information. These challenges are more important because of storage's key role in providing real-time information, as well as monitoring application performance, supporting round-the-clock transactions as well as ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery. In the past, storage was merely part of the hardware that came with a computer, and it did little more than hold software and data. Now, better management software has made storage a more integral part of IT architectures and critical for business operations.

With this type of data expansion, CIOs and other senior IT executives are constantly looking for streamlined methods to store and manage their business information in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. Those who choose to make their strategic investments that either leverage existing pools of storage or provide the ability to consolidate multi-protocol access into fewer pools can greatly reduce complexity, improve performance, and benefit from ease of management, all leading to overall lower cost of ownership and lower price-performance of the storage solution.

In this Executive Roundtable discuss the following hot-topics with your executive peers:

• Innovative ways to advance the IT infrastructure in terms of capacity, performance, and scalability
• Building partnerships and working with your vendor partners to add critical functionality and drive deeper value as well as tighten integration between storage and applications
• Leveraging your IT investments but find new ways of supporting this increase in file level data without increasing staff, complexity, or costs
• Aligning the value of your data with the appropriate performance and cost characteristics of your storage system
• Translating business policy for business owners into controls that will help protect and streamline the data

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

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