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SYMANTEC Symposium 2012

  • Auckland: Tuesday 14 August
  • Wellington: Thursday 16 August
  • Brisbane: Tuesday 21 August
  • Canberra: Wednesday 22 August
  • Sydney: Tuesday 18 September
  • Melbourne: Thursday 20 September
  • Adelaide: Tuesday 16 October
  • Perth: Thursday 18 October
Presented by Symantec

Compliance & Risk Management

Click here to view Compliance & Risk Management session descriptions.

Today’s security landscape is shaped by sophisticated attacks, more complex, heterogeneous environments, exploding growth of mobile devices, and mounting incident costs resulting from a rising number of regulations worldwide. Organisations are quickly realising that the old approach is no longer working. You can’t continue to spend more on security technologies while stopping less. Symantec aims to help organisations develop and enforce IT policies, protect information, authenticate people, and protect the infrastructure.

This track includes sessions that help organisations implement an IT security strategy that is policy-driven and risk-based, information- and identity-centric, and well-managed over a secure infrastructure. In particular you will learn about best practices for implementing a simplified, holistic approach that protects systems from attack, and secures inbound and outbound digital communications. You will also understand how you can proactively protect information on-premise and in the cloud, secure mobile devices, make virtualised environments safe, and automate governance processes to reduce IT risk and operational costs, and achieve internal and external compliance objectives.

This track is especially relevant for IT and business professionals and leaders responsible for:

  • Mobile applications & security
  • Cloud-based solutions & services
  • Information security
  • Identity & access management
  • Compliance, governance & risk management

 
Session Descriptions
The Future Directions for Symantec Threat and Risk Management Solutions
 
In the face of a rapidly evolving threat landscape and a changing IT environment, most information security teams acknowledge that it is not possible to eliminate all risk in their IT environment. However, by more-tightly coupling risk management with real-time information about the latest external threats as well as about incidents occurring within the environment, it is possible for information security teams to drive the most important actions in a timely manner. Learn how Symantec’s portfolio of Threat and Risk Management solutions is evolving to help information security teams understand and prioritise the real-time nature of the risks and threats that their organisations are facing.
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Symantec Endpoint Protection 12: Hundreds of Millions of New Pieces of Malware Mean You Have to Do Things Differently
 
With a massive amount of new malware being generated every day, the decision you made two or three years ago on how to protect your endpoints isn't the same decision you need to make today. The huge influx of new malware requires that you adopt new security technologies to stay ahead of new threats.

In this session, you will learn how Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 meets those needs and has been proven to be the fastest, most powerful endpoint protection security solution. We will share details on why Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 has been the fastest-adopted solution in Symantec history and take a look ahead at what we are planning on the product roadmap.
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Security Insights at Your Fingertips: Symantec Protection Center.mobile Overview
 
Executive attention to IT security and risk is increasing. 70 percent of organisations report increased executive awareness due to high-profile attacks and breaches. Are you able to provide a meaningful executive view of IT security and risk? In this session, you will hear an overview of Symantec’s exciting new iPad app - SPC.mobile - which is designed for both information security leaders and their executive peers. See how SPC.mobile helps provide executive visibility into threats and risks as they relate to the business and how it delivers other key security metrics that are relevant to the executive team.
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Protect Identity & Information... the Rest Takes Care of Itself!
 
With the aggressive trend from system-centric threats to information- and identity-centric threats, coupled with exponential growth in mobility and the distributed nature of business, there has to be a corresponding change in security strategies of organisations. The rapid adoption of BYOD and cloud applications and infrastructure exacerbates this situation.

Please join us to discuss these challenges and how Symantec can help you solve them with an integrated solution that is dedicated to protecting people and information.
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Integrating Global Intelligence to Protect Your Infrastructure
 
Everyone is looking to get more, trying to make 1+1=3. When it comes to security, one of the only real ways to make this happen is to combine local enforcement with global threat visibility. By doing this, your security infrastructure can know about threats before they hit, and stop them the first time.

Learn how you can enhance the performance of security systems that you already have in place and maximise the return on investment, and discover the numerous use-case advantages of using a global threat intelligence source in the enterprise.
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Reducing Risk Through Effective Certificate Management
 
In a world where encryption is mandated as the primary mechanism to protect information flowing around our organizations and to our customers, the effective management of the infrastructure behind this is critical. Consequences of bad management practices can include business interruption and loss of revenues - not to mention the damage to the brand. To compound the issue, regulators and internal auditors are looking for the business to demonstrate control and visibility in all areas of information risk management; the certificate infrastructure is no exception.

During this session, we will discuss the impact of an unmanaged certificate infrastructure, show how enterprises can take steps to reduce this risk, and also provide a glimpse of the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center service that helps to address these issues.
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Identifying Threats and Prioritising Response with Managed Security Services
 
One of the main goals of any security team is to identify threats and vulnerabilities, and mitigate their impact before they affect the organisation. Determining a prioritised response among a broad range of technologies and a complex threat landscape can be challenging for security practitioners.

Symantec Managed Security Services (MSS) provides customers with visibility into security events and how they impact their environment. In this session you will learn about MSS including the latest release of our portal which includes integration with Symantec’s DeepSight Intelligence Services. This combination assists customers in prioritising incident response by highlighting the impact of potential threats.
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