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ArcSight’s 6th cybersecurity user conference, Protect ’10, to offer many new attractions
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ArcSight, Inc., a producer of cybersecurity and compliance solutions, has previewed a wide array of new and existing features that will highlight its 6th annual users’ conference, called Protect ’10, scheduled for September 19-22 in Washington, DC.
Leading the expanded program will be presentations by ArcSight executives Tom Reilly, President and CEO; Dr. Prescott Winter, CTO Public Sector; and Hugh Njemanze, Executive VP of Research and Development, as well as major customers and experts, including:
- Steve Elefant, CIO of Heartland Payment Systems;
- Patty Long, Director of Technology Risk & Security at ING;
- Tim McKnight, Chief Information Security Officer for Northrop Grumman;
- Steve Brown, Director of Enterprise Information Management Operations for Wells Fargo.
In addition, the latest in security trends and strategies will be covered in a series of panel discussions on such topics as “Modern Threats in a Zero Day World,” “Infrastructure Protection and Advanced Persistent Threat Management,” and “Enterprise Threat and Risk Monitoring in the Real World,” which will be led by experts including:
- Andy Crocker COO of CyByL Technologies (a former investigator for the UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit);
- William Crowell, former CEO CyLink Corp. and former Deputy Director of Operations and Deputy Director of the National Security Agency;
- Nick Galleto, Partner, Information & Technology Risk, Deloitte;
- Dr. Nir Kshetri, author of The Global Cybercrime Industry;
- Barrett Lyon, CEO, 3Crowd Technologies;
- Joseph Menn, author of Fatal System Error;
- Dr. Larry Ponemon, Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute;
- Dr. Phyllis Schneck, Vice President, Threat Intelligence at McAfee.
According to ArcSight, a full agenda of real-world case study presentations will also be shared by customers, including BAE Information Systems, Bank of New York Mellon, Battelle, General Dynamics, Godiva, Heartland Payment Systems, ING, Intel, Kabel BW, Lockheed Martin, Lufthansa, Mozilla, Northrop Grumman, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Priority Health, SAIC, Southern Company, Turner Broadcasting, Unisys, Unitrin, USAA and WE! Consulting Group.
More than 80 breakout, technical "how-to" sessions and a hands-on immersion program will also be available to address industry trends, best practices and emerging concepts in log management, perimeter and network security, and the fast growing areas of threat and risk monitoring of users, applications and data.
In a major 2010 innovation, Protect ’10 will feature a 35,000-square foot ArcSight CyberSecurity Innovation Hall, which will include a Security Operations Center (SOC) Talk Theater, Turbo Talk Theater, ArcSight CyberRange and Partner Pavilion exhibit areas.
Nearly 30 partners will be onsite demonstrating innovative new solutions, including BigFix, Cyber-Ark Software, Damballa, Deloitte, Dimension Data, KCG, Lieberman Software, McAfee, NetWitness, NetScout Systems, Palo Alto Networks, Ping Identity, SAIC, SRA, Solera Networks and Vigilant.
ArcSight was a founding Sponsor at the GSN 2009 Homeland Security Awards program, and was handed the winner’s trophy in the “Security Incident & Event Management” category in the 2009 awards program.
For more information about ArcSight’s Protect ’10 and to see the complete conference agenda, interested parties can visit the conference’s Web site.
