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Time : 3pm
Date : Thursday
23rd April 2009
Duration : 1 Hour,
Live
About this
Event:
Today’s business needs to be conducted
away from the office. Workers are commuting longer distances, and increasingly
asking for flexible working patterns. Senior executives are looking for ways to
cut costs on real estate and energy use, as well as to motivate staff, and
remote working is a popular way to go. This means that critical business is
being transacted on home PCs, on other firms’ computers, or via public internet
access points in airports, hotels and cafés.
For IT managers, this new way of working
presents serious challenges. Without proper security measures in place,
“anytime, anywhere” access introduces a number of risks. A remote user’s access
device might be a home computer, a friend’s laptop, a shared computer on another
company’s network, a wireless PDA, a smartphone or even a public kiosk. As a
result, this unpredictable remote user device has become one of the weakest
points of information security.
In this Computing web seminar, in
association with SonicWALL, we examine the growing need for new approaches to
security driven by flexible working. Technologies such as endpoint and mobile
network access control, incoming traffic inspection, and virtual private
networks will be discussed by our panel of experts, who will also answer your
questions on this vital topic.
Who should
attend?
• CIOs, IT directors, IT managers
and CISOs
• IT security managers
• Risk
managers
• Governance and compliance managers
• IT
infrastructure managers
• Data protection managers
Why you should
attend
• Understand the key security issues
affecting remote IT users
• Find out about tools and technologies to
improve remote IT security
• Learn about best practice IT security for
mobile workers
• Put your questions to our panel of
experts
• Hear a case study of how one organisation manages the security
of remote workers
Speaker
Profiles:
Rob Bamforth,Principal Analyst, Quocirca
Ltd
Focussing on the areas of communication,
collaboration and convergence. His experience combines his years spent in sales
and marketing, with an in-depth understanding of technology development and
deployment, which together give him an approach that focuses first on the
business need, with technology as the supporting service.
The areas of communication, collaboration
and convergence are broad, and include aspects of employee or business process
mobility, environmental impact of communications, and supplier or industry
convergence. Rob's perspective is on the business impact from large
enterprise to SME; he also identifies with the needs of service providers in
dealing with all their customers, including consumers.
Florian Malecki, EMEA Enterprise
Product Marketing Manager, SonicWALL
As a member of the EMEA marketing team at
SonicWALL, Florian Malecki drives the development of the SonicWALL E-Class
products and services for the EMEA markets. His responsibilities include
supporting product requirements and market trends, establishing relationships
with key partners and customers to drive those requirements, and defining and
implementing strategic enterprise marketing programmes in EMEA. Before joining
SonicWALL, Malecki served as the EMEA Marketing Manager for Aventail, where he
was responsible for driving end-user and channel marketing activities across the
EMEA region and product launches for Aventail's market-leading SSL VPN product
line. Prior to joining Aventail, Malecki was international marketing manager at
ClearSwift, where he was responsible for marketing programmes in EMEA. He has
also worked in senior marketing roles at Omgeo and Lucent Technologies.
Nitesh
Thakrar, Security Architect, E-Manage Limited.
With over 15 years
in the IT industry, Nitesh a key member of the Internet Security Team at
E-Manage Ltd and is particularly well known for his work in Information Security
Design and Consultancy.
He has for the last
few years been active in consulting on Security System Design and
architecture. Through this has amassed a lot of theoretical and practical
knowledge of Network Implementations. His work entails providing technical
advice to Clients, as well as other Resellers and Distributors. Working
closely with the technical and management teams to ensure harmonisation between
the two
He has been an active
member of the CESG Licensed Advisor Scheme (CLAS), which requires GCHQ Security
Clearance.
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