Sunday, January 16, 2005
January ISSA Puget Sound Chapter Meeting
***iPod door prize this month
Agenda
5:30-6:00 p.m. Food & drinks by ENDFORCE, Inc.
6:00-6:05 p.m. Chapter business, announcements.
Securing the Mobile Enterprise
Mr. Shofner will be discussing the impact today's mobile workforce has on corporate security planning. The increasing amount of data and number of devices within any organization requires prudent management of corporate resources in order to insure sufficient security measures are in place to protect the enterprise and its stakeholders. The core problem is that the majority of mobile devices lack the physical and electronic access controls necessary to maintain security and as a consequence, data stored on mobile devices is much more "at risk" than transmitted data. Mr. Shofner will also be discussing the critical role of endpoint data protection and access controls in relation to compliance issues with some of today's legislation such as California SB1386, SOX, GLBA and HIPPA (April 21, 2005).
7:00-7:10 p.m. Break.
7:10-8:00 p.m.Guest Speaker - ENDFORCE, Inc. Scott Lewis, Senior Product Manager, ENDFORCE, Inc.
The Endpoint Security Problem & the 'Scan, Block, & Quarantine' Solution
In today's IT shops, critical, high-frequency, enterprise-wide endpoint security patches and upgrades are the norm. Most enterprises dictate endpoint policies; however, with no way to easily enforce compliance, enterprises remain at significant risk. Enterprise administrators are faced with a daunting challenge: ensure that updated anti-virus software, a personal firewall, and all relevant operating system and application patches are successfully installed and running on each device connecting to the network.Historically, this challenge has been an unmanageable problem in networks of tens or hundreds of thousands of LAN and WAN connected devices. As a result, the compliance state of most endpoints pre-connection to the network is essentially unknown and enterprise networks are constantly at risk. Security software and hardware vendors have been addressing this problem through al variety of new products that fall into a category that Gartner refers to as “Scan, Block, and Quarantine”. During his presentation, Scott will review the endpoint enforcement problem and the various solutions to the problem currently available to the enterprise.
8:00 p.m. - ??? Door prizes & Personnel Networking. Door prizes include an iPod being given away by Pointsec. Must be present to win.
Driving Instructions
The ISSA Puget Sound December, 2004 general meeting will be held on December 16, 2004 from 5:30 to 8:00 PM at :