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Guardium Hosts Data Privacy Seminar Series Featuring Leading Information Security Analysts; Analysts to Highlight Best Practices for Data Security and Compliance
WALTHAM, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- March 16, 2006 -- Guardium, the database security company, will host a series of seminars featuring Guardium's CTO and Gartner experts. The series, starting March 21st in New York, is aimed at CXOs, IT auditing and compliance executives, and security professionals. The events are produced by TechTarget, the publishers of SearchSecurity.com and Information Security.
The seminars are intended to raise awareness about industry best practices for protecting sensitive information such as credit card, personal identity and corporate financial data. Presenters will also identify key steps to achieve compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standard, and data privacy laws.
Featured Gartner speakers include Avivah Litan, a renowned expert on financial fraud, identity theft and fraud prevention applications, and Rich Mogull, an authority on data security and compliance. Litan and Mogull track cyber criminals' latest methods to steal corporate information, and advise the world's largest public- and private-sector enterprises on how to mitigate risks associated with information security.
Guardium's CTO, Ron Ben-Natan, Ph.D., is the author of ten technical books on distributed application environments, application security and database security. Ben-Natan, an IBM Gold consultant, worked for companies such as Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Intel prior to joining Guardium in 2002.
The featured Gartner speakers will describe strategies and tactics regarding:
-- The extent of identity theft and online fraud. So far in 2006, there have been more than 41 disclosed data incidents in the U.S., affecting more than 3.2 million people, according to ChoicePoint.
-- The hard costs of unauthorized data access, based on real-world examples.
-- Regulations governing data privacy and data security concerns.
-- New technologies for protecting customer and business data.
In addition, Guardium's CTO will discuss:
-- The 7 essential elements for database security and auditing.
-- Using real-time database activity monitoring with policies to prevent data breaches.
-- Implementing change controls for critical enterprise databases and applications.
-- Automating database auditing, reporting, and oversight processes.
WHAT: Seminar: "Best Practices for Data Privacy"
WHEN: New York, N.Y. - March 21, 2006
Dallas, Texas - April 11, 2006
San Francisco, Calif. - April 18, 2006
WHO: Avivah Litan, Research Vice President, Gartner (New York
seminar)
Rich Mogull, Research Vice President, Gartner (Dallas and
San Francisco seminars)
Ron Ben-Natan, CTO, Guardium (New York and Dallas
seminars)
WHO SHOULD
ATTEND: C-level executives and day-to-day practitioners involved
with IT auditing, compliance, privacy and risk management,
and security and database administration.
WHERE: Register at: www.guardium.com
WHY: Learn to safeguard confidential information while staying
up-to-date with compliance.
About Guardium
Guardium, the database security company, develops the most widely-used network solution for database security and auditing. By securing sensitive information - such as credit card, personal identity, and corporate financial data - Guardium protects the world's best-known brands while minimizing the cost and complexity of IT governance and compliance.
Named "Hot Pick" by Information Security magazine, Guardium's family of network appliances prevents unauthorized access and monitors all changes to databases in real-time - without the performance loss of traditional logging approaches. The Guardium SQL Guard suite includes specialized accelerators for SOX, PCI, Basel II, and data privacy laws. A centralized multi-tier architecture provides scalability for large and distributed enterprises.
Guardium's partners include IBM, EMC, HP, Microsoft, Oracle and Sybase, and the company is a member of IBM's prestigious Data Governance Council. For more information, please visit www.guardium.com or call 781-487-9400.
Copyright (C) 2006 Guardium. All rights reserved. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Guardium, SQL Guard, and Safeguarding Databases are trademarks of Guardium, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective companies. Copying and redistribution of this material is expressly permitted by the copyright owner.
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