NetClarity's Founder and CTO to Discuss Critical Security Issues at SecTor, Canada's Premier Information Security (INFOSEC) Summit
Bedford, MA and Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) November 11, 2007 -- NetClarity, Inc., an award winning Vulnerability Management and Network Access Control company, today announced that Founder & CTO, Gary S. Miliefsky, is a featured speaker at SecTor, Canada's premier IT security education conference, which is being held on November 20-21, 2007 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Session Title: Cybercrime, CVEs, OVAL, CME and why you must care!
Speaker: Gary Miliefsky (Founder & CTO, NetClarity)
Date/Time: November 21, 2007) 15:00 - 16:15
Track: 3 (RM 802 AB)
Topic: 95% of downtime and successful criminal hacker attacks are because of your known vulnerabilities - find out what they are, current standards and new trends from the international standards body at MITRE, funded by the US Department of Homeland Security. Miliefsky is a Board member of this organization and will provide insights and free resources you can take advantage of today to harden your networks against attack, downtime and IT related regulatory compliance issues.
"I'm honored to be chosen by SecTor as a speaker at such a prestigious gathering with some of the best and brightest minds in information security," said Gary S. Miliefsky, Founder & CTO, NetClarity, Inc.
In particular, network security and IT professionals will gain insight into the latest international standards, managed by MITRE, in collaboration with government, industry, and academic stakeholders to improve the measurability of security through enumerating baseline security data, providing standardized languages as means for accurately communicating the information, and encouraging the sharing of the information with users by developing repositories. With new insights gained from these standards, attendees will learn how to proactively defend these systems and protect their networks against the latest emerging threats.
"We're pleased to have Gary join us to enlighten our attendees on the latest trends in international standardization for improving network security," said Brian Bourne, Director of SecTor.
About The Speaker
Gary S. Miliefsky is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of NetClarity, Inc., the network security software and appliance company that he founded and one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the network security revolution. He is widely admired as the inventor of clientless network admission control or clientless NAC and has over a dozen patents published and pending. He frequently writes articles for SearchCIO and NetworkWorld.
He served as an informal advisor to President Clinton and helped the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, under the Bush Administration, which is now known as the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) and operates within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in their development of The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
He currently serves on the National Information Security Group (www.naisg.org) Board of Directors and is a member of an Advisory Board to MITRE. (oval.mitre.org).
About NetClarity, Inc.
NetClarity, according to RSA 2007, is one of the three most innovative network security companies in the world and is a leading provider of vulnerability management and network access control (NAC) products that provide preemptive, proactive network protection. The company's Auditor line of appliances has received widespread recognition, including two Best Buy Awards, 5 Star ratings, and Best of 2006 from SC Magazine and according to CRN is one of the Who's Who in NAC. Auditor enables customers to clearly see and better protect their network assets, identifying with pinpoint accuracy the root causes of data leakage, regulatory compliance gaps and network downtime using MITRE's CVE® standard. Based in Bedford, Massachusetts, NetClarity is privately held. For more information, visit http://www.netclarity.net/
About SecTor
Today's corporations are facing a multitude of security threats from external parties compromising data to internal risks posed by inadvertent employee error. To help address the latest worldwide digital threats, SecTor brings together the worlds' brightest and darkest minds to identify, discuss, dissect and debate these issues. Unique to Canada, SecTor provides Canadians and international visitors with an unmatched opportunity for IT professionals to collaborate with their peers and learn from their mentors while helping IT leaders determine how the strongest defenses can be mounted.
An international list of top-tier speakers from around the world including representatives from the U.S., Germany, Canada, and Poland will be presenting at SecTor. From Mark Fabro, an educator and consultant who has been recognized as one of the "25 Most Influential Consultants in the World" to Joanna Rutkowska, a recognized researcher in the field of stealth malware and system compromises, SecTor is attracting the best-of-the-best in the field of IT security. For more information, visit: http://www.sector.ca/
NetClarity, Auditor, EasyNAC and the NetClarity logo are trademarks of NetClarity, Inc. CVE is a registered trademark of MITRE Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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