Symantec symposium goes cyber

Symantec, of Mountain View, CA – a global provider of information technology security, storage and systems management – will hold a day-long symposium on June 22 entitled “No Compromise - Open, Secure, Everywhere” at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.

"Government leaders are trying to balance the need to share the growing amount of critical information while appropriately protecting it," said Gigi Schumm, vice president and general manager for Symantec Public Sector. "The Symantec Government Symposium will provide a venue for open communication and collaboration among government IT security and management professionals to discuss strategies on tackling these challenges,” she added.

The symposium is held once a year and this it will bring together “more than 1,000 government IT, security and business professionals to discuss challenges and opportunities related to sharing critical information among public sector agencies -- as well as with the private sector and citizens -- while protecting sensitive data and complex IT infrastructures,” according to the company.

Symantec has lined up the best-and-the-brightest from across the spectrum of private and public industry. Howard Schmidt, cyber security coordinator in the executive office of the president, will give the morning keynote presentation and Major General Suzanne Vautrinot, who serves as director of plans and policy for the U.S. Cyber Command, will deliver the luncheon keynote presentation. Enrique Salem, Symantec’s president and CEO, will kick off the day's events with a discussion on protecting critical infrastructure against cyber-attacks.

Other speakers slated to attend include members of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Department of Energy (DoE), National Security Agency (NSA), NASA, the U.S. States Postal Service (USPS), the Department of Defense (DoD), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Census Bureau, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Secret Service cyber division as well as corporate executives from HP Enterprise Services, DLT Solutions, Dell, General Dynamics and Symantec among others.

The five speaking tracks to be held throughout the day will focus on standards and directives, government services modernization, critical infrastructure, new technologies on the horizon and the threat landscape as they relate to the public sector. Presentations will be given on such hot topics as security information protocols, IT consolidation, cloud computing, smart grids, e-discovery and policy automation, the difference between cyber-warfare, cyber-espionage and cyber-crime, protecting sensitive data, cyber-policy and legislation, information sharing, supply chain assurance, transparency, and mobile convergence.

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