Ensuring the Security of Sensitive Information While Achieving Compliance in Today's Global Economy

Today, ensuring the security of sensitive information and achieving compliance with global regulatory requirements are among the most critical and, at the same time, the most daunting challenges facing any organization that hopes to operate successfully in today's increasingly open and global arenas. Identity management has emerged as a compelling solution for addressing both the technological and economic obstacles that threaten to thwart efforts to secure information and to comply with regulations as well as an effective method of mitigating risks in an open environment. Furthermore, the expansion of business and regulatory compliance specifications is posing challenges for organizations trying to manage secure access to business-critical data and applications. Additionally, it is increasing the necessity to integrate disparate systems along with more and more customers, partners, consultants, vendors and others requiring access to IT systems.

Discuss with your peers at this executive roundtable:

• How identity management can play a significant role in enabling organizations to meet today's demands for security and compliance.
• How centralized management of sensitive information can automate the processes that enable effective and efficient regulatory compliance and reporting.
• How companies create, manage, and authenticate user identities and broker services based on the identities for use within their corporate enterprise and/or their extranet users.
• How organizations that want to take full advantage of new possibilities for open collaboration with partners and customers must take precautions to fully secure their systems and information.
• How identity management initiatives can bring significant cost savings and competitive advantage to businesses that far exceed the benefits of being secure and compliant.
• How integrating risk management or identity provider metrics into the equation can allow for the development of reports to improve processes, measure organizational efficiency, and provide dashboards and scorecards for your organization.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Steve L. Scott Senior Director of Corporate Information Security Wachovia ISE Southeast Awards 2007 Finalist Biography >

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Ensuring the Security of Sensitive Information While Achieving Compliance in Today's Global Economy

Today, ensuring the security of sensitive information and achieving compliance with global regulatory requirements are among the most critical and, at the same time, the most daunting challenges facing any organization that hopes to operate successfully in today's increasingly open and global arenas. Identity management has emerged as a compelling solution for addressing both the technological and economic obstacles that threaten to thwart efforts to secure information and to comply with regulations as well as an effective method of mitigating risks in an open environment. Furthermore, the expansion of business and regulatory compliance specifications is posing challenges for organizations trying to manage secure access to business-critical data and applications. Additionally, it is increasing the necessity to integrate disparate systems along with more and more customers, partners, consultants, vendors and others requiring access to IT systems.

Discuss with your peers at this executive roundtable:

• How identity management can play a significant role in enabling organizations to meet today's demands for security and compliance.
• How centralized management of sensitive information can automate the processes that enable effective and efficient regulatory compliance and reporting.
• How companies create, manage, and authenticate user identities and broker services based on the identities for use within their corporate enterprise and/or their extranet users.
• How organizations that want to take full advantage of new possibilities for open collaboration with partners and customers must take precautions to fully secure their systems and information.
• How identity management initiatives can bring significant cost savings and competitive advantage to businesses that far exceed the benefits of being secure and compliant.
• How integrating risk management or identity provider metrics into the equation can allow for the development of reports to improve processes, measure organizational efficiency, and provide dashboards and scorecards for your organization.

Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator

Lynn Goodendorf Vice President, Risk Management InterContinental Hotels Group Biography >

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You are the Custodian of Data - Sharing, Streamlining and Simplifying a Complex IT Environment

Today's businesses are digitized, online, and growing. CIO's and other senior IT executives are the custodians of the data within their enterprises. Organizations of all sizes continue to generate increasing amounts of data, largely because of a growing number of applications and users generating and accessing data as well as compliance requirements to keep information available and safe. The productivity and viability of organizations are becoming ever more reliant on the ability to store, organize, and share this business information. These challenges are more important because of storage's key role in providing real-time information, as well as monitoring application performance, supporting round-the-clock transactions as well as ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery. In the past, storage was merely part of the hardware that came with a computer, and it did little more than hold software and data. Now, better management software has made storage a more integral part of IT architectures and critical for business operations.

With this type of data expansion, CIOs and other senior IT executives are constantly looking for streamlined methods to store and manage their business information in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. Those who choose to make their strategic investments that either leverage existing pools of storage or provide the ability to consolidate multi-protocol access into fewer pools can greatly reduce complexity, improve performance, and benefit from ease of management, all leading to overall lower cost of ownership and lower price-performance of the storage solution.

In this Executive Roundtable discuss the following hot-topics with your executive peers:

• Innovative ways to advance the IT infrastructure in terms of capacity, performance, and scalability
• Building partnerships and working with your vendor partners to add critical functionality and drive deeper value as well as tighten integration between storage and applications
• Leveraging your IT investments but find new ways of supporting this increase in file level data without increasing staff, complexity, or costs
• Aligning the value of your data with the appropriate performance and cost characteristics of your storage system
• Translating business policy for business owners into controls that will help protect and streamline the data

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