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ELEMENTAL TO HOST INDUSTRY WEBINAR ON IMPLEMENTING SECURITY POLICIES IN TODAY'S DYNAMIC ENTERPRISE NETWORKS
Burton Group VP Phil Schacter, Security Expert and Elemental CTO Dan Farmer to Discuss Integrated Policy Management that Supports Business Activities on June 16 at 2 pm EDT
SAN MATEO, Calif. - June 14, 2005 - Elemental Security, Inc.T , a company pioneering new technology in enterprise information security, today announced it will host an industry webinar titled "Security Policy Implementation for Dynamic Enterprise Networks," on Thursday, June 16, at 2 pm EDT, 11 am PDT. Featured speakers for the event will be Phil Schacter, vice president and service director of Burton Group, and Dan Farmer, co-founder and CTO of Elemental Security.
CIOs and network managers face unknown states of security within their enterprise networks, due to a diverse and ever-changing collection of users and computers. Managing policies to address internal and regulatory compliance requirements is a difficult task, especially given the lack of visibility into security levels and business activities. To learn more, including how to address these issues by deploying and centrally managing policies that support business activities and security requirements, register by logging on to: [link removed]
Attendees will discover a unique, integrated security policy management approach that allows documented IT security policies to be easily expressed, uniformly implemented, continuously monitored, and ultimately enforced. New technologies and strategies introduced during the webinar can deliver a cross-platform unified policy infrastructure that enables enterprises to continuously monitor the configuration and network activity of all devices on the network, and apply policies that ensure computers are securely configured and allowed to access only approved resources.
Attendees can learn how security administrators can manage and automatically provision policies that are aligned with the business activity and security requirements for all computers, based on their observed usage and other common grouping factors.
About Phil Schacter
Mr. Schacter is a Vice President and Service Director with industry analyst firm Burton Group. Mr. Schacter has worked in the network technology industry for more than 25 years. His experience spans mainframe network applications, network-delivered services, distributed messaging systems, security policy and architecture, and identity management systems. Mr. Schacter has designed and developed network applications, managed network services, messaging product lines and product engineering. He has worked on standards groups, and has authored industry reports on messaging, security, and identity management topics. Mr. Schacter consults with large companies on security architecture and identity management issues.
About Dan Farmer
Mr. Farmer has been involved in the computer industry for more than 20 years and is recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in computer and network security. Mr. Farmer's work includes serving as an expert witness and consultant for the recording industry in its case against Napster, advising the U.S. Department of Defense on protecting networks from cyber-terrorism in the wake of 9/11, and testifying before Congress regarding cybersecurity. Prior to that, he led network security at EarthLink for more than three years. Mr. Farmer also spent several years leading the technical aspects of computer and information security at Sun Microsystems. Mr. Farmer is well known as the author or co-author of several software programs that are among the world's most widely used security tools, including SATAN (Security Administrator's Tool for Analyzing Networks), a program that analyzes and reports on the security of a network.
About Elemental
Elemental Security is a pioneer in the Security Compliance Management market. Elemental's products address enterprises' need to centrally manage the security compliance of all computers in their environments. Elemental provides unified visibility and control to manage dynamic computing environments, enabling enterprises to satisfy compliance requirements and measurably improve their security. Founded in December 2002, Elemental is a privately held company backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., and has offices throughout the U.S. Go to http://www.elementalsecurity.com for more information.
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