March 7, 2007

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM

Level: Introductory/All Levels

Companies worldwide are plagued by theft of laptops, intellectual property, and worker and customer identities, resulting in unwanted media attention, compliance violations, unbudgeted financial impact, and irreversible brand and reputation damage. Discovering where a company’s critical documents and customer data reside and protecting them from unlawful access, printing, copying, and downloading has become an important business requirement in today’s digital economy. In this presentation, the speaker will examine current best practices that global companies employ to protect against loss of customer data and intellectual property when stored on worker desktops and mobile systems, monitoring and controlling content without impeding the flow of business, and survey current content detection technologies that can provide visibility and control over confidential documents and records in order to inventory and track sensitive data in real-time.

Attendees will learn:

• How to discover, lockdown and eliminate information leakage before it occurs based on content, user, system or drive
• Using alerts to help train users on corporate policy at the time of the event to increase user awareness and reduce the risk of loss without impeding the flow of business
• Achieving continual protection of laptop content even when disconnected while controlling access, saving, downloading, printing, copying, and moving of data
• How to establish sophisticated custom monitoring categories to look for activity and information that is uniquely company-specific or proprietary to the nature of your business
  

Robert Sullebarger is responsible for all strategic marketing initiatives including product marketing, market analysis and development, press and analyst relations, and demand generation for Vericept solutions. Mr. Sullebarger previously worked for Ciena Corporation as Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for its Data Networking Group.

Before arriving at Ciena, Mr. Sullebarger served as Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Equipe. Prior to that, he worked for Spring Tide Networks in the role of Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, where he forged a reseller relationship with Lucent Technologies that led to the $1.5 billion acquisition of Spring Tide by Lucent. Earlier, Mr. Sullebarger was Director of Product Management at Ascend Communications and also held executive positions at Cascade Communications Corporation.

Robert Sullebarger holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University. He has also been awarded a MBA from Sir John Business School in London, England.