Addressing Cost, Compliance and Security Management Challenges through Automation and Integration

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Eben Berry, CISSP, ITIL, MCSE, MCT Chief Information Security Officer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts ISE New England Awards 2005 Nominee Biography>

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - More Brains Needed for this No Brainer?

Benefits of lower costs, more effect management, and improved security have been touted as key drivers for organizations to move to hosted desktop solutions. This environment holds the promise of new ways to deploy desktops, improve end user computing, improve desktop and application availability, allow for higher levels of security, and all the while, lowering the cost and complexity of managing the desktop infrastructure. So why are organizations struggling with deploying this environment on a broad scale?
In this roundtable, join the discussions on:

What works

• Environments that are better suited for VDI
• Successes in the areas of lower costs, more effective management, and improved security

What doesn't work

• Issues for deploying on a broad scale
• How organizations are developing strategies to overcome the obstacles
• Where are we seeing successes
• Next steps for moving to a broader scale adoption

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Samuele (Sam) Ghelfi, CISSP Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer Raymond James Financial ISE Southeast Awards 2009 Finalist Biography>

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Forward-Thinking in the Data Center: Hottest Topics That Are Shaping Future Data Center Management Practices

Every day, agencies of the federal government are tasked with the administration of laws in spite of unprecedented changes in their economic and fiscal environments. In the midst of these twists and turns, Federal IT infrastructures—data centers, in particular—are challenged to continue exploring ways to reduce budgets through consolidation, standardization, and new technologies such as virtualization, yet remain as secure as ever.  Although these actions have generated increased utilization of IT resources, keeping pace with technological change amidst constraints is difficult. Data center and IT management practices must continue to evolve to meet demands. To achieve this, several things must be considered:

Power Consumption & Effective Utilization. Organizations around the world are aggressively seeking ways to save energy and reduce costs. Fortunately, a number of innovative companies are delivering tools and technologies that enable data center managers to measure power consumption and discretely manage power utilization at the device, the rack and the data center as a whole.

Agile Data Center Planning. The growing complexity in today’s dynamic data centers has challenged IT executives to develop effective methods for problem identification, capacity management and cost reduction. New visual modeling tools have come of age to simplify these management practices by providing a visual representation of physical computing facilities.

Reducing System Management Costs.  Increasingly, agencies are relying on their IT infrastructures and, in particular, their data center operations to streamline productivity.  Innovations from market leaders have married proven technologies with IT management to meet these expanded requirements.

In this roundtable, you will have the opportunity to discuss with your peers:

• Data center optimization and how to capture and maintain information so you have a deep understanding of your IT resources and facilities
• Visual modeling and how it provides simplified and centralized information for more peace of mind during critical decision-making and key projects
• New strategies, tools and techniques to allow for continuous planning to ensure the right IT resources match your budget and organization requirements.
• Power management best practices that can positively affect data center budget and resources, such as reducing "hot spots' in the data center to enable a more even distribution of temperature-thereby reducing energy costs and wear-and-tear on the environment   

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

John P. Everett, PMP Section Chief, Infrastructure Support, IT Operations Division Federal Bureau of Investigation Biography >

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - More Brains Needed for this No Brainer?

Benefits of lower costs, more effect management, and improved security have been touted as key drivers for organizations to move to hosted desktop solutions. This environment holds the promise of new ways to deploy desktops, improve end user computing, improve desktop and application availability, allow for higher levels of security, and all the while, lowering the cost and complexity of managing the desktop infrastructure. So why are organizations struggling with deploying this environment on a broad scale?
In this roundtable, join the discussions on:

What works

• Environments that are better suited for VDI
• Successes in the areas of lower costs, more effective management, and improved security

What doesn't work

• Issues for deploying on a broad scale
• How organizations are developing strategies to overcome the obstacles
• Where are we seeing successes
• Next steps for moving to a broader scale adoption

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderators

Cindy Tierney Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Beazer Homes Biography>

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Gaining the Competitive Advantage by Deepening Your Security Program

The Internet is full of dangers for the unsuspecting and the unprepared. Identity theft and phishing attempts are everyday events-every hour events for some of us, it seems-and the consequences of succumbing can be devastating. However, with mobile computing being tantamount to today's business practices, enterprises increasingly rely on their Internet for their business, and no matter what the purpose-connecting partners, personnel, suppliers, or customers. Web applications and the servers that this information resides on face a growing danger of cyber attacks. These targeted threats are greater and more sophisticated than ever before and the regulations that are being imposed have deeper penalties and consequences.

Companies that want to remain competitive with respect to information security in the fast-changing Internet commerce industry have two options. They can hope there is a timely technological response to address each new requirement. Or they can adopt the most comprehensive level of protection available for their customers and other constituents.

In this roundtable discuss with your peers the best practices associated with:

• Prevention of data breaches and business disruptions to provide a line of defense at the server itself, whether physical, virtual, or in the cloud
• Compliance with PCI and other regulations and standards - HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and GLB
• Achieving operational cost reductions to fully leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies as well as vulnerability protection with secure coding efforts and patching

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Christopher Leach Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President ACS (Affiliated Computer Services Inc.) ISE North America Executive of the Year 2008 - Commercial Category and People's Choice Winner Biography >

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Access Assurance: Enabling the Automation of Identities and Access Rights to Achieve a Lower Total Cost of Ownership and Stronger Security Posture

Enterprises and other large organizations are being asked to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness while delivering lower total cost of ownership. And at same time, the regulatory environment continues to impact businesses, requiring enterprises to exert significant effort to comply without necessarily delivering greater business value. While these dynamic forces can be conflicting, these regulations and business drivers all have in common is that they require organizations to implement processes and procedures designed to protect sensitive information from compromise as well as staying ahead of the curve in managing user access to critical business applications.

It has become clear that automating identity and access management (IAM) can be a solution fundamental to cutting costs, while simultaneously improving compliance with relevant security mandates.

In this roundtable, discuss with your executive peers:

• How enterprises with even the most complex, heterogeneous environments are increasing operational efficiency and transparency, strengthening security and improving compliance, while delivering lower total cost of ownership.
• Considerations around roles based access control and the challenges that they face in ensuring that the right people have the right access at all times.
• Best practices associated with granting appropriate entitlements and access rights to a user, which can be enforced by the target platform security system.
• How to effectively control access to internal and external-facing web sites and applications as well as to manage access for power users and IT personnel
• How to efficiently and accurately terminate zombie and orphan accounts after an employee leaves the organization to prevent malicious behavior
• The benefits of monitoring users and integrating identity and access rights with applications that capture specific behavior and activities.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Randy Yates Director Information Security Memorial Hermann Healthcare System Biography>

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Forward-Thinking in the Data Center: Hottest Topics That Are Shaping Future Data Center Management Practices

Increasingly, enterprises are relying on their IT infrastructures--and, in particular, their data center operations--to streamline productivity and drive profitability. Communication services, Web commerce, engineering, sales and marketing are all dependent on the success of their IT assets. As businesses strive to compete in a 21st century economy, they require more powerful computing functionality and more plentiful computing availability. Yet, while the reliance on IT resources has increased, most data centers and IT management practices have not matured to meet these expanded requirements.

Power Consumption & Effective Utilization: Companies around the world are aggressively seeking ways to save energy and reduce costs. Fortunately, a number of innovative companies are delivering tools and technologies that enable data center managers to measure power consumption and discretely manage power utilization at the device, the rack and the data center as a whole.

Agile Data Center Planning: The growing complexity in today's dynamic data centers has challenged IT executives to develop effective methods for problem identification, capacity management and cost reduction. New visual modeling tools have come of age to simplify these management practices by providing a visual representation of physical computing facilities.

Reducing System Management Costs: Increasingly, enterprises are relying on their IT infrastructures and, in particular, their data center operations to streamline productivity and drive profitability. Innovations from market leaders have married proven technologies with IT management to meet these expanded requirements.

In this roundtable, you will have the opportunity to discuss with your peers:

• Data center optimization and how to capture and maintain information so you have a deep understanding of your IT resources and facilities
• Visual modeling and how it provides simplified and centralized information for more peace of mind during critical decision-making and key projects
• New strategies, tools and techniques to allow for continuous planning to ensure the right IT resources match your budget and organization requirements.
• Power management best practices that can positively affect data center budget and resources, such as reducing "hot spots' in the data center to enable a more even distribution of temperature-thereby reducing energy costs and wear-and-tear on the environment.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

James M. Swartz Chief Information Officer Sybase, Inc. 2008 DaCEY Virtualization Project Category Winner Biography >

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Gaining the Competitive Advantage by Deepening Your Security Program

The Internet is full of dangers for the unsuspecting and the unprepared. Identity theft and phishing attempts are everyday events-every hour events for some of us, it seems-and the consequences of succumbing can be devastating. However, with mobile computing being tantamount to today's business practices, enterprises increasingly rely on their Internet for their business, and no matter what the purpose-connecting partners, personnel, suppliers, or customers. Web applications and the servers that this information resides on face a growing danger of cyber attacks. These targeted threats are greater and more sophisticated than ever before and the regulations that are being imposed have deeper penalties and consequences.

Companies that want to remain competitive with respect to information security in the fast-changing Internet commerce industry have two options. They can hope there is a timely technological response to address each new requirement. Or they can adopt the most comprehensive level of protection available for their customers and other constituents.

In this roundtable discuss with your peers the best practices associated with:

• Prevention of data breaches and business disruptions to provide a line of defense at the server itself, whether physical, virtual, or in the cloud
• Compliance with PCI and other regulations and standards - HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and GLB
• Achieving operational cost reductions to fully leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies as well as vulnerability protection with secure coding efforts and patching

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Denise D. Wood Corporate Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer FedEx Corporation ISE National Awards 2007 Enterprise Category Winner Biography >

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Access Assurance: Enabling the Automation of Identities and Access Rights to Achieve a Lower Total Cost of Ownership and Stronger Security Posture

Enterprises and other large organizations are being asked to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness while delivering lower total cost of ownership. And at same time, the regulatory environment continues to impact businesses, requiring enterprises to exert significant effort to comply without necessarily delivering greater business value. While these dynamic forces can be conflicting, these regulations and business drivers all have in common is that they require organizations to implement processes and procedures designed to protect sensitive information from compromise as well as staying ahead of the curve in managing user access to critical business applications.

It has become clear that automating identity and access management (IAM) can be a solution fundamental to cutting costs, while simultaneously improving compliance with relevant security mandates.

In this roundtable, discuss with your executive peers:

• How enterprises with even the most complex, heterogeneous environments are increasing operational efficiency and transparency, strengthening security and improving compliance, while delivering lower total cost of ownership.
• Considerations around roles based access control and the challenges that they face in ensuring that the right people have the right access at all times.
• Best practices associated with granting appropriate entitlements and access rights to a user, which can be enforced by the target platform security system.
• How to effectively control access to internal and external-facing web sites and applications as well as to manage access for power users and IT personnel
• How to efficiently and accurately terminate zombie and orphan accounts after an employee leaves the organization to prevent malicious behavior
• The benefits of monitoring users and integrating identity and access rights with applications that capture specific behavior and activities.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Raymond Biondo Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer Health Care Service Corp. ISE Central Award 2009 Nominee Biography>

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Software Application Security and Risk Management - A Business Imperative

Leading analysts estimate that exploitable vulnerabilities in enterprise applications account for three out of every four security breaches, but a majority of IT security spending is still focused on solving network security problems. The result of this mismatch is being played out before our eyes: increasing breaches resulting in data loss, downtime, and a constant series of distractions for the organization.

Leading businesses are changing strategies. In order to defend their intellectual property, protect the privacy of their customers, and meet regulatory compliance obligations, they are fixing vulnerabilities in their existing applications and encouraging their developers and vendors to build security directly into the software they use. By taking a proactive, systematic approach to managing software risk, they are aligning security investment with the reality of today's threats.

Exploitation of software vulnerabilities may also result in the disclosure of personal and other sensitive information, impacting the roles and responsibilities of management positions throughout the enterprise. This requires a broad partnership between the Information Security Executive (ISE) and the audit committee, board of directors, the CEO, CFO, CIO and business unit leaders.

In this executive roundtable, we will discuss how to employ proven security strategies such as Software Security Assurance that provide organizations with a blueprint for minimizing business risks associated with exploitation of vulnerabilities in their software assets. Methods of ensuring executive management buy-in to such initiatives will also be discussed. Attendees will leave this roundtable with collective insight into how to make security initiatives a business imperative at their organizations as well as how to successfully implement them with sustainable support from executives and business unit managers.

About Software Security Assurance
Software Security Assurance (SSA) is the systematic process for ensuring an organization's software can meet the security needs of the business. A comprehensive approach to SSA addresses risks from:

1. In-house software development
2. Outsourced projects
3. Commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS)
4. Use of open source

Any software security initiative must instill secure development practices for creating strong code and addressing the weaknesses already present in deployed applications. It includes training and technology for software builders, a cooperative approach to vendor management, a strategy for compliance and privacy management of personal information, and a set of metrics for demonstrating progress.

A successful SSA initiative leads to:

1. Measurably reduced risk from existing applications
2. A controlled process for preventing vulnerabilities in new releases and procurements.

This in turn reduces costs and wasted effort from emergency bug fixes, schedule delays, and incident clean-up.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderators

	Fred Killeen Director of System Development and Chief Technology Officer General Motors Corporation Biography>
	Eric Litt Chief Information Security Officer General Motors Corporation ISE Central People's Choice Award Winner 2006, ISE National/CSI Member's Choice Award Winner 2006 Biography >

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Gaining the Competitive Advantage by Deepening Your Security Program

The Internet is full of dangers for the unsuspecting and the unprepared. Identity theft and phishing attempts are everyday events - every hour events for some of us, it seems - and the consequences of succumbing can be devastating. However, with mobile computing being tantamount to today's business practices, enterprises increasingly rely on their Internet for their business, and no matter what the purpose-connecting partners, personnel, suppliers, or customers. Web applications and the servers that this information resides on face a growing danger of cyber attacks. These targeted threats are greater and more sophisticated than ever before and the regulations that are being imposed have deeper penalties and consequences.

Companies that want to remain competitive with respect to information security in the fast-changing Internet commerce industry have two options. They can hope there is a timely technological response to address each new requirement. Or they can adopt the most comprehensive level of protection available for their customers and other constituents.

In this roundtable discuss with your peers the best practices associated with:

• Prevention of data breaches and business disruptions to provide a line of defense at the server itself, whether physical, virtual, or in the cloud
• Compliance with PCI and other regulations and standards - HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and GLB
• Achieving operational cost reductions to fully leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies as well as vulnerability protection with secure coding efforts and patching

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Craig Froelich Senior Vice President of Security and Infrastructure Bank of America

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - More Brains Needed for this No Brainer?

Benefits of lower costs, more effect management, and improved security have been touted as key drivers for organizations to move to hosted desktop solutions. This environment holds the promise of new ways to deploy desktops, improve end user computing, improve desktop and application availability, allow for higher levels of security, and all the while, lowering the cost and complexity of managing the desktop infrastructure. So why are organizations struggling with deploying this environment on a broad scale?
In this roundtable, join the discussions on:

What works

• Environments that are better suited for VDI
• Successes in the areas of lower costs, more effective management, and improved security

What doesn't work

• Issues for deploying on a broad scale
• How organizations are developing strategies to overcome the obstacles
• Where are we seeing successes
• Next steps for moving to a broader scale adoption

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderators

Fernando Martinez, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CPHIMS Chief Technology & Security Officer Broward Health ISE Southeast Award 2009 Winner Biography>

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - More Brains Needed for this No Brainer?

Benefits of lower costs, more effect management, and improved security have been touted as key drivers for organizations to move to hosted desktop solutions. This environment holds the promise of new ways to deploy desktops, improve end user computing, improve desktop and application availability, allow for higher levels of security, and all the while, lowering the cost and complexity of managing the desktop infrastructure. So why are organizations struggling with deploying this environment on a broad scale?
In this roundtable, join the discussions on:

What works

• Environments that are better suited for VDI
• Successes in the areas of lower costs, more effective management, and improved security

What doesn't work

• Issues for deploying on a broad scale
• How organizations are developing strategies to overcome the obstacles
• Where are we seeing successes
• Next steps for moving to a broader scale adoption

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Timothy Searcy, CISSP, CISM Information Security Officer Protective Life Corporation ISE Southeast Executive of the Year Award 2008 Nominee Biography>

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - More Brains Needed for this No Brainer?

Benefits of lower costs, more effect management, and improved security have been touted as key drivers for organizations to move to hosted desktop solutions. This environment holds the promise of new ways to deploy desktops, improve end user computing, improve desktop and application availability, allow for higher levels of security, and all the while, lowering the cost and complexity of managing the desktop infrastructure. So why are organizations struggling with deploying this environment on a broad scale?
In this roundtable, join the discussions on:

What works

• Environments that are better suited for VDI
• Successes in the areas of lower costs, more effective management, and improved security

What doesn't work

• Issues for deploying on a broad scale
• How organizations are developing strategies to overcome the obstacles
• Where are we seeing successes
• Next steps for moving to a broader scale adoption

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Lynda Fleury Chief Information Security Officer of Enterprise Information Security & Risk Management Unum Corporation ISE Southeast Executive of the Year Award 2008 Winner Biography>

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Unmanaged Risk, Rising Compliance Costs - Achieving Compliance Through Automation and Integration

Today, companies like yours are grappling with the need to comply with internal policies and external regulations. In many cases, this means expending enormous resources only to end up with a piecemeal solution that may get them through this year's audit, but will likely be woefully inadequate at tackling tomorrow's threats. Even as compliance spending continues to increase dramatically year after year, many industry experts predict that unaddressed compliance regulations will result in increased violations and subsequent legal and public relations problems for corporations. 

Further complicating the matter, business executives must now take personal responsibility for compliance issues. And an organization's failure to comply with established policies-whether internal or regulatory-could be damaging not just to the company's brand and image, but also to the personal credibility of the management team.

During this roundtable discuss with your peers:

• Whether the costs required to achieve compliance will continue to escalate, and if so, by how much?
• How to automate the key business and technology processes upon which compliance depends
• How to align your IT policies and infrastructure with your business goals and governance requirements
• What approaches you can take today to manage access and proactively address your risk mitigation and compliance objectives

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Lynn Goodendorf Vice President, Corporate Risk & Chief Privacy Officer InterContinental Hotels Group PLC Biography>

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An Integrated Approach to Security and Compliance Management

One of the biggest challenges in managing global and large enterprises is the complexity of controlling user access to information resources. Organizations are facing many challenges, including managing access across disparate systems, dealing with user roles that are constantly changing due to reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and meeting regulatory compliance requirements.

Organizations are struggling to gain the visibility to user access across the entire enterprise including employees, partners, and suppliers. Ensuring that access is appropriate for a particular role, and maintaining consistent processes for compliance purposes is key but must be achieved in partnership with the business to reduce cost and burden on the organization.

In this roundtable, discuss with your executive peers:

• Their strategic approach to managing the security risk and regulatory risk of inappropriate access to technological resources including applications and information.
• What approaches they are taking today to manage access and achieve risk and compliance initiatives in a proactive manner.
• Considerations around roles based access control and the challenges that they face in ensuring that the right people havethe right access at all times.
• How access governance initiatives can bring significant cost savings and competitive advantage to businesses and enhance security and compliance.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderators

Brian Wrozek IT Security Director Texas Instruments Incorporated ISE Central Executive of the Year Award 2008 Winner Biography >

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Executive VIP Luncheon at the 2009 BlackHat Conference in Las Vegas Hosted by Executive Alliance and HP

Globally reknown chef and star of his own Emmy-winning series on the Food Network, Bobby Flay, combines his love of grilling and southwestern cuisine in the nationally recognized Mesa Grill.

Our HP host for the 2009 Executive VIP Luncheon at BlackHat is Caleb Sima, Chief Technologist Officer, Application Security Center. This private VIP luncheon is the only opportunity to have intimate discussions with Caleb at the Blackhat conference.  The discussion will be around Building Value-Add Business Opportunities into your Software Security Assurance Programs.

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An Integrated Approach to Security and Compliance Management

One of the biggest challenges in managing global and large enterprises is the complexity of controlling user access to information resources. Organizations are facing many challenges, including managing access across disparate systems, dealing with user roles that are constantly changing due to reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and meeting regulatory compliance requirements.

Organizations are struggling to gain the visibility to user access across the entire enterprise including employees, partners, and suppliers. Ensuring that access is appropriate for a particular role, and maintaining consistent processes for compliance purposes is key but must be achieved in partnership with the business to reduce cost and burden on the organization.

In this roundtable, discuss with your executive peers:

• Their strategic approach to managing the security risk and regulatory risk of inappropriate access to technological resources including applications and information.
• What approaches they are taking today to manage access and achieve risk and compliance initiatives in a proactive manner.
• Considerations around roles based access control and the challenges that they face in ensuring that the right people havethe right access at all times.
• How access governance initiatives can bring significant cost savings and competitive advantage to businesses and enhance security and compliance.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderators

	Anne Kuhns, CISSP Vice President of Information Security & Chief Information Security Officer The Walt Disney Company ISE Southeast Awards Winner 2007, ISE National Awards 2007 Finalist - Enterprise Category Biography>
	Jason Spaltro Vice President of Information Security Sony Pictures Entertainment Biography >

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Moving Beyond Compliance and Minimizing the Risk: Shrinking Your 'Sensitive Data' Footprint

Enterprises today face evolving global data privacy risks and challenges as well as complicated regulatory and compliance mandates and extensive audits. All set in the context of explosive proliferation of business-critical and sensitive electronic data stored in multiple applications and databases. And mobile workforces, business partners and customers alike are scattered around the globe accessing this data on a variety of platforms.

As enterprises seek to improve security for more types of sensitive and confidential information, encryption, key management and data storage has become more complex, resource intensive and expensive. Moving beyond simply securing payment card numbers and into guarding more diverse forms of personally identifiable information (PII), financial and IP data present new data security challenges for many enterprises - including the realization that the data resides everywhere.

Discuss with your peers the following:

• How organizations can better protect sensitive information throughout the entire enterprise and significantly reduce the number of locations where sensitive data resides.
• How shrinking the sensitive data footprint helps organizations simplify their data security operations, reduce the risk of a breach and shrink PCI DSS audit scope, effort and cost
• How limiting the number of employees who can access sensitive data dramatically reduces the risk of internal data theft but still enables business processes to flow naturally
• Strategies for protecting information in applications and databases that minimize IT effort and maximize security

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Brian Grafsgaard Director of Professional Services Quality Business Solutions (QBS) Biography >

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Moving Beyond Compliance and Minimizing the Risk: Shrinking Your 'Sensitive Data' Footprint

Enterprises today face evolving global data privacy risks and challenges as well as complicated regulatory and compliance mandates and extensive audits. All set in the context of explosive proliferation of business-critical and sensitive electronic data stored in multiple applications and databases. And mobile workforces, business partners and customers alike are scattered around the globe accessing this data on a variety of platforms.

As enterprises seek to improve security for more types of sensitive and confidential information, encryption, key management and data storage has become more complex, resource intensive and expensive. Moving beyond simply securing payment card numbers and into guarding more diverse forms of personally identifiable information (PII), financial and IP data present new data security challenges for many enterprises - including the realization that the data resides everywhere.

Discuss with your peers the following:

• How organizations can better protect sensitive information throughout the entire enterprise and significantly reduce the number of locations where sensitive data resides.
• How shrinking the sensitive data footprint helps organizations simplify their data security operations, reduce the risk of a breach and shrink PCI DSS audit scope, effort and cost
• How limiting the number of employees who can access sensitive data dramatically reduces the risk of internal data theft but still enables business processes to flow naturally
• Strategies for protecting information in applications and databases that minimize IT effort and maximize security

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Tammy Moskites, CISM Vice President, IT Security Officer Huntington National Bank ISE Central Awards 2009 Finalist Biography >

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Building Value-Add Business Opportunities into your Software Security Assurance Programs

Today's Information Security Executive (ISE) needs a security framework that packages the capabilities to achieve cyber security readiness into defined products and services that secure the application suite. The vision for a security framework needs to meet several objectives including understanding the costs, avoiding lawsuits, protecting the business, protecting the critical infrastructure, controlling the disclosure of information as well as how this type of program can add intrinsic value to the business.

And dive deeper into the discussion and share your ideas with your executive peers:

How to take security as a key business issue and make your application security program a business enabler and a strategic investment versus the program to be perceived as a cost.

• As global enterprises increasingly seek to achieve competitiveness on the cheap, global outsourcing is becoming more widespread as is the practice of offshore software development - how do you ensure that data and the code that is developed is safe when exchanged with third-party providers and off-shore developers.
• Share the best practices around promoting multi-departmental awareness and obtaining a company-wide executive commitment for your application security program
• Share the best practices in the identification and prioritization of risk associated with application security as it relates to SOA, AJAX and other Web 2.0 technologies.
• Types of goals and measurements to implement to gauge the impact on the business and the overall investment made into the application security program
• Developing a realistic and scalable application security program that takes into account limited human and financial resources as well as identifying the applications with the highest associated risk

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderators

	Caleb Sima Chief Technologist Officer, Application Security Center HP Biography >
	Chenxi Wang, Ph.D. Principal Analyst Forrester Biography >

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Conversions of Security Systems on EndPoint Security Platform Management

Protecting endpoints from the wide variety of sophisticated threats coming through the Web, e-mail, and files requires many different approaches. As conventional endpoint security expands to keep pace with the latest threats, managing your security program can become an even greater challenge than combating the threats themselves. For many enterprise organizations, endpoint protection has been a fragmented approach where malware signatures that must be distributed and maintained on every endpoint. Because there are so many divergent approaches to protecting the endpoint, many of them create conflicts by forcing ever more complex management requirements on the IT staff, at the same time they fail to address the dynamic nature of threats with static defense methodologies that leads to less effective defenses and increased costs.

In this roundtable, discuss with your executive peers:

• How moving to a threat analysis and prevention to the cloudwill provide improved speed and reduce your risk
• How an integrated management approach on a single platform can offer cost-effective, proactive endpoint security as well as minimizes bandwidth usag
• How continuous compliance enforcement by the agent and real-time endpoint visibility makes the audit process extremely cost-effective

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Wallace Wilhoite, CISSP Vice President, Security Operations SunTrust Banks, Inc. ISE Southeast Executive of the Year 2008 Finalist Biography >

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - More Brains Needed for this No Brainer?

Benefits of lower costs, more effect management, and improved security have been touted as key drivers for organizations to move to hosted desktop solutions.  This environment holds the promise of new ways to deploy desktops, improve end user computing, improve desktop and application availability, allow for higher levels of security, and all the while, lowering the cost and complexity of managing the desktop infrastructure.  So why are organizations struggling with deploying this environment on a broad scale?

In this roundtable, join the discussions on:

• What works
  • Environments that are better suited for VDI
  • Successes in the areas of lower costs, more effective management, and improved security
• What doesn’t work
  • Issues for deploying on a broad scale
  • How organizations are developing strategies to overcome the obstacles
  • Where are we seeing successes
  • Next steps for moving to a broader scale adoption

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Max M. Morris Vice-President, Threat Intelligence Services Wachovia, A Wells Fargo Company ISE Southeast Executive of the Year 2009 Finalist Biography >

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In Conjunction with Sapphire and ASUG

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Greening the Datacenter for Less Green

The industry has recently been buzzing about the need to incorporate eco-friendly principles into its business practices. Whether spurred by government mandates to conserve energy resources, or by corporate financial need to cut operating expenses, the process of "going green" is an evolution and does not need to happen overnight. Building an eco-friendly environment can be implemented in phases by taking advantage of routine system upgrades to make the switch. Sun CIO Bob Worrall will discuss practical steps, and the resulting bottom-line benefits, of implementing new technologies to help drive down datacenter costs.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Kristin Russell Vice President of Information Technology Operations Sun Microsystems Inc. Biography >

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Greening the Datacenter for Less Green

The industry has recently been buzzing about the need to incorporate eco-friendly principles into its business practices. Whether spurred by government mandates to conserve energy resources, or by corporate financial need to cut operating expenses, the process of "going green" is an evolution and does not need to happen overnight. Building an eco-friendly environment can be implemented in phases by taking advantage of routine system upgrades to make the switch. Sun CIO Bob Worrall will discuss practical steps, and the resulting bottom-line benefits, of implementing new technologies to help drive down datacenter costs.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Kristin Russell Vice President of Information Technology Operations Sun Microsystems Inc. Biography >

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Information Security and Risk Management Programs - A Business Imperative

Hackers, organized crime cartels, and state-sponsored agents understand that a business’s most valuable assets are stored in its computer systems. Leading analysts estimate that vulnerabilities at the application layer account for three out of every four security breaches, but a majority of IT security spending is still focused on solving network security problems. The result of this mismatch is being played out before our eyes: increasing breaches resulting in data loss, downtime, and a constant series of distractions for the organization.

Leading businesses are changing strategies. In order to defend their intellectual property, protect the privacy of their customers, and meet regulatory compliance obligations, they are building security into the software they use. By taking a proactive, systematic approach to software risk, they are aligning security investment with the reality of modern threats.

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 Software 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.

About Software Security Assurance
Software Security Assurance (SSA) is the systematic process for ensuring the organization’s software can meet the security needs of the business. A comprehensive approach to SSA addresses risks from:

1. In-house software development
2. Outsourced projects
3. Commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS)
4. Use of open source

A software security initiative must instill secure development practices for creating strong new code and address the weaknesses already present in deployed applications. It will include training and technology for software builders, a cooperative approach to vendor management, a strategy for compliance and management of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and a set of metrics for demonstrating progress.

A successful software security initiative leads to:

• Measurably reduced risk from existing applications
• A controlled process for preventing vulnerabilities in new releases and procurements.

This in turn reduces costs and wasted effort from emergency bug fixes, schedule delays, and incident clean-ups.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Cynthia R. Whitley, CISSP, CISM Chief Information Security Officer Allstate Insurance Company ISE Central Executive of the Year 2008 Nominee Biography >

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Building Value-Add Business Opportunities into your Software Security Assurance Programs

Today’s Information Security Executive (ISE) needs a security framework that packages the capabilities to achieve cyber security readiness into defined products and services that secure the application suite. The vision for a security framework needs to meet several objectives including understanding the costs, avoiding lawsuits, protecting the business, protecting the critical infrastructure, controlling the disclosure of information as well as how this type of program can add intrinsic value to the business.

And dive deeper into the discussion and share your ideas with your executive peers:

• How to take security as a key business issue and make your application security program a business enabler and a strategic investment versus the program to be perceived as a cost.
• As global enterprises increasingly seek to achieve competitiveness on the cheap, global outsourcing is becoming more widespread as is the practice of offshore software development – how do you ensure that data and the code that is developed is safe when exchanged with third-party providers and off-shore developers.
• Share the best practices around promoting multi-departmental awareness and obtaining a company-wide executive commitment for your application security program
• Share the best practices in the identification and prioritization of risk associated with application security as it relates to SOA, AJAX and other Web 2.0 technologies.
• Types of goals and measurements to implement to gauge the impact on the business and the overall investment made into the application security program
• Developing a realistic and scalable application security program that takes into account limited human and financial resources as well as identifying the applications with the highest associated risk

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderators

	Dr. Edward G. Amoroso Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer AT&T Inc. 2005 ISE National Luminary Leadership Award Winner Biography >
	Caleb Sima Chief Technologist Officer, Application Security Center HP Biography >

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – More Brains Needed for this No Brainer?

Benefits of lower costs, more effect management, and improved security have been touted as key drivers for organizations to move to hosted desktop solutions. This environment holds the promise of new ways to deploy desktops, improve end user computing, improve desktop and application availability, allow for higher levels of security, and all the while, lowering the cost and complexity of managing the desktop infrastructure. So why are organizations struggling with deploying this environment on a broad scale?

In this roundtable, join the discussions on:

• What works
• Environments that are better suited for VDI
• Successes in the areas of lower costs, more effective management, and improved security
• What doesn’t work
• Issues for deploying on a broad scale
• How organizations are developing strategies to overcome the obstacles
• Where are we seeing successes
• Next steps for moving to a broader scale adoption

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Chuck Musciano Chief Information Officer Martin Marietta Materials Biography >

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Your Disaster Recovery Program - Building in Capabilities to Reset Your Environment

There is no question about the importance of disaster preparedness. Organizations understand the imperative nature of implementing a well-thought-out and cohesive disaster recovery (DR) strategy to help them recover from natural or human-induced disasters. Disaster recovery and remote office replication are top-of-mind issues for IT professionals with recent disasters such as Hurricane Katrina underscoring the fallibility of many technologies currently in use by all but the largest enterprises.

Many organizations are finding their technologies, such as tape backup, woefully inadequate for disaster recovery situations because they involve too much human intervention, and the management of too much data - two conditions that almost inevitably lead to error and delay in trying to bring your system back to a current environment.

Discuss the following with your peers at this roundtable:

• How to consolidate data protection storage and data replication, and to simplify day-to-day management of backup and disaster recovery requirements
• How to improve business continuity by providing fast access to data to keep business functions operating efficiently
• Optimizing backup reliability by providing fully automated, high-performance solutions that minimize the chance of human error
• In difficult economic times, reduce both capital and operating expenditures associated with data protection and data replication by utilizing the best storage solutions for both short-term and long-term data protection needs

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Thomas Schultz Senior Director of Technology Security Standards & Risk Assessment McGraw Hill Biography >

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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

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

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