Log Management: Hack Cyber Criminals To Pieces
An effective solution to quickly detect cybercrime, demonstrate compliance, and streamline IT operations
Corporations around the globe are a facing an alarmingly high number of cyber crime threats jeopardizing their network security on a daily basis. Crucial and confidential information is put to risk and losses are taking their toll on business. Increasingly demanding compliance regulations are causing corporations to lose operational efficiency and money due to the skyrocketing costs of data collection and management. IT operations are becoming more difficult to streamline, and causing undesired downtime amongst corporations nationwide. In fact, cyber attacks, compliance failures, and system failures are frequently linked to the same core problem. However, there is an effective solution to combat all of these issues at once: Log Management.
We will show you how to:
- Fuse your security needs into a simple solution that will save your business time, money, and resources
- Effectively store and access up to 42TB of structured and unstructured data in seconds
- Integrate multiple security technologies with the click of a button
Join us on...
Thursday, Feb 18th, 2010
2:00 p.m to 3:00 p.m EST
Presenters:
Varun Kohli, ArcSight, Senior Manager of Product Marketing
James C. Foster, Ciphent, Chief Executive Officer
Session Agenda:
With log management technology, organizations are securing their confidential information from cyber criminals while effectively streamlining IT and achieving compliance across their enterprise.
Ciphent will demonstrate the critical business nature of these problems (loss of confidential information, vulnerability to cyber criminals, etc) along with the security and compliance concerns (malware, compliance failures, etc). Ciphent will also discuss solutions to these problems from a business and high level cyber security architecture point of view.
ArcSight, the industry leading provider of log management and compliance solutions will present the technological challenges and issues driving the use of log management and will discuss solutions to the challenges from a technological perspective.
Speaker Bios:
Varun Kohli
ArcSight, Senior Manager of Product Marketing
Varun Kohli is the Sr. Manager of Product Marketing at ArcSight, Inc., a leader in SIEM and log Management space. He joined ArcSight from McAfee, where he led Product Marketing for McAfee Email Gateway (a.k.a. IronMail), a leading email security solution. Varun is a frequent speaker and writer on security topics and was also the author of the most read McAfee monthly publication – Spam Report. Prior to McAfee, he has also been a part of many successful start-ups like IronPort and CipherTrust. He holds a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Computer Science and has around 10 years of experience in network and information security.
James C. Foster
Ciphent, CEO
James C. Foster is the Chief Executive Officer of Ciphent. Mr. Foster is a well known entrepreneur and has had the honor of holding executive management roles with several successful start-up companies to include Foundstone (acquired by McAfee), Guardent (acquired by Verisign), and Information Security Magazine (acquired by Tech Target Media.) Prior to his tenure with Ciphent, Mr. Foster was responsible for the business development channel program, vendor management, and global service operations for CSC's Managed Information Security Services and Solutions. As Deputy Director of Global Security Solutions, James played a pivotal role in the instantiation of a business development sales channel program. James has 14 years of software development and security experience to include working as the Director of Research and Development for Foundstone, Chief Scientist and Advisor for Guardent, Deputy Director of Global Security Solution Development for Computer Sciences Corporation, and a Security Research Specialist for the US Navy. Mr. Foster has gained global recognition for his accomplishments in the IT Security and Software Development arenas, as evidenced by his residence on the Mitre OVAL Board of Directors. Mr. Foster serves as a Contributing Editor at both Information Security Magazine (acquired by TechTarget) and SearchSecurity.com and is a well published author with over fifteen published books, multiple reaching best seller status - to include, without limitation: Snort 2.0, Snort 2.1, Buffer Overflow Attacks, Sockets, Shellcode, Porting, and Coding, Ultimate Programming Security Desk Reference, and Writing Security Tools and Exploits. His numerous contributions to print media, coupled with his speaking appearances at Microsoft, the National Press Club, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won him accolades as one of the world's foremost IT Security and Technology experts. Mr. Foster graduated from Capitol College with a Bachelors of Science in Software Engineering. He holds an MBA, PP in Globalization from Northeastern University and is a Post-Graduate Fellow in International Business and Global Operations from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Foster has also attended Harvard, Yale, and resided in the Wireless Security Research Forum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
