Network Security Track

The ability to securely manage users’ systems and data, and defeat hackers, viruses, spyware and web attacks impacts the future of your infrastructure. This track provides the latest advice on how to leverage key technologies to keep your networks free from attack.

Achieving "World Peace" in the Enterprise with Promising Security Tools
Spyro Malaspinas, Principal, ThreeFactor Security

Security teams and the tools that they deploy are often the first to face the wrath of budget cuts, blame games by operations for outages, and are described by many business leaders as a "necessary evil". 

In this session, Spyro Malaspinas takes a deep dive into a PCI remediation case study where a suite of security (IdM, SIM, Configuration Management/File integrity) tools were deployed. Attend and discover how these tools:

  • Decreased support costs, outages, and audit costs
  • Improved compliance posture
  • Harmoniously aligned security with operations and won the respect of executive management

This session will arm you with financial prowess to wield against the business leaders in your organization, forcing the hand that endorses budget approvals while winning the respect of executive management and operations.


React Faster: How to Leverage Monitoring to Keep Attacks from Becoming Catastrophes
Mike Rothman, Chief Blogger, Security Incite

We don't know where the next major attack will come from and we collectively have a horrible track record at predicting it. Thus, we need to take a different approach to securing our private data and intellectual property. Since we can't "get ahead of the threat," we need to get better at detecting an issue and collecting the data to investigate it. Mike Rothman details both a philosophy and a method to monitor your networks, systems, applications and databases to find emerging attacks - before they cause downtime and breaches.

  • Learn how new security management platforms provide the basis for data collection
  • Understand how application and database security technologies are emerging to provide more visibility
  • Figure out where blocking traffic (or transactions) may be appropriate - and where it is not
  • Discuss how to develop the documentation needed for audits

Five Steps to Securing Mobile Devices
Joel Snyder, Senior Partner, Opus One

Mobile devices, including PDAs, cell phones, VoIP phones, and notebook computers, represent a clear wave of technology that all enterprises must support. This wave is being pushed for both competitive reasons and cultural ones, as the new generation of employees and customers assume anytime/anywhere access to information. In this session, Joel Snyder covers:

  • The main threats to mobile devices (with access to email and corporate data)
  • The strategies needed to deal with these threats both within the corporate network and
    when roaming around the globe