SANS WhatWorks in Mobile Encryption Summit 2007

What Works In Using Encryption To Protect Mobile Data?

Dates:

April 23 - 25, 2007

Summit Venue:

Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA

A special discount rate of $175 S/D will be honored based on space availability. This rate includes high speed internet in your room. Make your reservations now, this special rate is only available through April 2, 2007.

NOTE: You must mention that you are attending the SANS Institute conference to get the discounted rate.

Back By Popular Demand:

SANS 2006 Encryption Summit was over-subscribed with more than 230 delegates, and many people urged SANS to bring the Summit to the West Coast. Here's what some of those attendees said about the summit:

• 'Lessons Learned' is a great format. I've got a list of things to watch out for that would have taken me a long while to pull together on my own.- Jeff Modin, Cooper Hospital
• This was my first SANS Summit, and I definitely will attend more. Now I can go back with better knowledge of data security, vendors (key) and what to do when looking for the correct tool to use to protect confidential/business data.- El Dimayuvga, Honda R&D
• Great forum that gets several speakers in quick bursts and allows plenty of interaction with quick and plentiful Q&As.- Aaron Smith, Fosso Technologies

One of the reasons attendees value SANS Summits is the opportunity to hear real stories from those who have fought the war. Gord Taylor from the Royal Bank of Canada says, It's all about making peer contacts, and learning from them about real problems, real obstacles, and real solutions.

Overview of the Encryption Summit

Last year's front page news was full of data breaches, stolen laptops, and lost data. Today this kind of news is being accompanied by articles about restitution to victims and crackdowns by the FTC on companies with lax security practices in place. No company wants to see its name in any of these headlines. No CEO, board member or top government official wants to see their organization cited in either kind of article.

The SANS Encryption Summit, being held on April 23-25 in San Jose, California, is an in-depth program featuring user-to-user discussions focused on lessons learned, mistakes to avoid, and technologies and processes that work in protecting sensitive data on laptops and desktops. The Summit is an interactive program with ample opportunity to get your questions answered by those who have already fought the wars. You will leave the summit with concrete, actionable information you can deploy as soon as you return to work.

What Will You Learn?

1. The problems encryption solves and the ones it doesn't.
2. Which vendors to put on your short list for laptop encryption
3. Critical mistakes other companies and agencies made in deploying encryption - particularly how they accidentally turned people's computers into bricks.
4. How to make sure data on laptops and other mobile devices cannot be used by thieves.
5. What to include in your procurement documents to be sure the encryption vendor delivers what you need.
6. What encryption is built into Windows XP and Windows VISTA and their strengths and weaknesses.
7. How encryption is being built into disks that will be coming with your laptops and whether or not you still may need an enterprise encryption management solution.

Who Should Attend?

• Security, equipment, and help desk managers should attend as a team. Organizations that care about protecting sensitive information need managers who can reliably work together to deploy the right technologies and process to secure that information. Joint attendance at the Summit will go a long way toward getting everyone reading off the same page.
• Security auditors and incident handlers who need to know the key problems that may arise in using encryption.
• Security architects and CTOs who are trying to determine what technologies and processes are most critical for protecting sensitive information stored in their organizations.
• Consultants tasked with helping organizations design the right defenses to protect their sensitive information on laptops and desktops.

Six Questions to Be Answered at the Summit

1. How can organizations use encryption and other security steps to avoid disclosing the loss of mobile devices storing sensitive information? What is the legal framework?
2. What are the key criteria for choosing a mobile data encryption package, which are the leading programs, and how do they measure up?
3. What processes work best for rolling out mobile data protection across large enterprises and what are the biggest mistakes made by the pioneering users?
4. How can encryption be integrated with Active Directory and LDAP?
5. Can protection of data on desktops be justified?
6. Is there a way to lower the cost of acquiring encryption software for all systems?

How Good Are SANS Summits?

Here's more from people who attended the last Summit:

• Wonderful information and recommendations. I will definitely use Dr. Cole's 'Top 10' when choosing an encryption solution.- Dana DesPlanques, Fort Lewis College
• This summit provided a concise but well rounded perspective of encryption topics, from vendors as well as companies in the private sector and government.- Richard Enyart, FedEX