• 16 Sep 2011

    No CPEs for you!

    I spoke at the @ISACAAtlanta GeekWeek show and all I got was this lousy notification ;-)Seriously, it was a good show that I recommend next time they have it....

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  • 12 Sep 2011

    Speaking in Boston @ the CDW + TechTarget security seminar next week

    I hope you'll have a chance to join me in Boston next week when I'm speaking at the TechTarget / CDW seminar: Predictive Security: Plan Ahead to Stay Ahead of the Next Threat.Boston, like several other upcoming events, is a 2-track seminar where I'll be giving the keynote and splitting the breakout sessions with my friend and roadshow colleague Pete Lindstrom among other vendor experts. [sidenote: Pete's the real draw ...

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  • 25 Aug 2011

    Join me live today at Dark Reading’s webinar #iwkdrbreaches

    I'm speaking at the #Information Week/Dark Reading Virtual Trade Show How Security Breaches Happen and What Your Organization Can Do About It. My session is titled How to Win the War Against Cybercrime and starts at 2:30pm ET. Here are a few words about it: What are you doing to avoid becoming the next Wikileaks, Google, or Sony? Despite the fact that businesses will spend over 50 billion dollars worldwide ...

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  • 19 Aug 2011

    What’s up with conferences in October?

    I've had to turn down 3 speaking engagements the weeks of October 10th & 17th because I'm, well, speaking at other shows those weeks. Maybe it's something about the weather that time of year? Perhaps discounted meeting facility rental rates? I suspect the real reason is that all the top-notch security speakers are busy then so the conference organizers are reaching out to second stringers like me. BTW, my apologies ...

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  • 10 Aug 2011

    My webcast/Q&A today on managing network threats

    Join me today in TechTarget's SearchCompliance.com virtual tradeshow: Enterprise Risk Management: Mitigation Strategies for Today's Global Enterprise My presentation "Managing Network Security Threats with an ERM Strategy" starts around 3pm ET and I'll be doing a live Q&A just after....

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  • 17 Jun 2011

    Proud to be a speaker on the TechTarget roadshow

    I just completed two seminars this past week for TechTarget and CDW...One was in Minneapolis, which by the way, was probably the friendliest city I've EVER visited. Great bunch of folks...thanks for the great Midwestern turnout and hospitality!Our second stop was San Francisco...one of my most favorite cities to visit. I also had the opportunity to visit the nice folks at one of my publishers: Realtimepublishers.com (publisher of my latest ...

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  • 04 Mar 2011

    My upcoming information security speaker roadshow

    Thanks to TechTarget and CDW starting this month I'm embarking on an 11 city speaking tour across the U.S. Along with my colleague Pete Lindstrom, we'll be speaking/ranting about all sorts of network security and data protection stuff including:Embedding Security into the Network—Building Defense in DepthSecuring your Presence at the Perimeter: Contrary to Popular Belief, you do still have a Network PerimeterLocking Down Server and Workstation Operating Systems: A Critical ...

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  • 02 Mar 2011

    My roundtable tomorrow on the state of IT compliance

    Join me and my colleagues/friends Becky Herold (The Privacy Professor) and Scott Woodison (security manager extraordinaire) on Focus.com tomorrow at 2pm ET where we'll be talking about:Compliance vs. managing information risks - there is a differenceCommon compliance-related mistakesRecent changes to information security and privacy regulations and how they affect youRecommendations on what your business can do to get its arms around the compliance beastIt'll be laid back yet informative...we'll no ...

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  • 06 Dec 2010

    Unbelievable #s in the new Billion Dollar Lost Laptop Study

    I spent last Thursday in San Francisco at a press briefing held by Intel's Anti-Theft Technology group regarding the new Ponemon Institute Billion Dollar Lost Laptop Study. Larry Ponemon's study found that businesses are losing billions of dollars through lost and stolen laptops - something I wrote about three years ago...and a problem that's been around even longer.Malcolm Harkins (Intel's CISO), Anand Pashupathy (GM of Intel's Anti-Theft Services), Larry Ponemon ...

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  • 29 Apr 2010

    IT security roundtable starting soon

    Join me if you can in just over an hour for AppSec's Five Burning Questions: Q2 2010 IT Security Auditor Roundtable. I and others from companies such as Ernst & Young, KMPG, and Protiviti will discuss database audit challenges and share tips and best practices you can implement to ensure database compliance and security.I hope to "see" you there!...

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