Webcast series: Mission Possible Security

Aberdeen Group and  IBM presents a free security Web seminar series for mid-size companies

Mission Possible Security - PCI Compliance

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The current economic downturn has not decreased the need to secure your business. Keeping critical information secure is important, especially since compliance requirements haven't been put on hold until the economy picks up. With reported increases in network and Web-based security attacks in the last 120+ days, the need to be vigilant has only increased. And meeting and maintaining PCI compliance can help you reduce the risk to a specific set of critical information - your customer and supplier credit card information.

Moving into year five of the PCI compliance wave many companies have achieved compliance, but many are still struggling - especially SMBs.  Compliance is a necessity for all organizations in the payment process; however, on-going changes in the industry and changes to the standard itself mean new questions and new challenges to address. This Webcast, hosted by Aberdeen Group's Derek Brink, will provide an industry overview of PCI compliance best practices followed by a panel discussion on key challenges all companies face in obtaining and maintaining PCI compliance, and focus areas and solutions for SMBs to consider when protecting credit card data.

Mission Possible Security: Protect Your Company from Security Threats

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Hackers and malicious codes don’t discriminate. They attack all size businesses and for mid-sized businesses in particular, the risk of network and web application vulnerabilities and information breaches continues to rise. The good news is that if you know what to look for and where, you can stop virtually any threat. Knowing where potential threats can manifest themselves can mean the difference in the ongoing struggle to keep your critical business information where it should be—safe and secure.

This Webcast features security experts from Aberdeen Group and IBM, the leading security company in the world, with the renowned X-Force research team to help you: 

• Identify security issues and create internal awareness
• Secure changing networking environments and ensure the secure deployment of applications and business processes
• Deliver preemptive protection to support continuous business operations to stay ahead of evolving threats
• Meet or exceed regulatory compliance requirements for data protection
• Ensure data confidentiality, integrity and availability in your organization

Mission Possible Security: Protecting Critical Information

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For mid-sized businesses, a direct correlation exists between protecting your data and protecting your bottom line. Factors that affect mid-sized businesses such as shortages of manpower and available assets that are needed to realize security needs make your data more attractive to those who have the technology and abilities to steal it.

This Webcast features Derek Brink, Vice President of Security at Aberdeen Group and IBM's Christopher Bauserman, Director, IBM Tivoli Software and Susan Blocher, Vice President of Marketing, IBM System Storage, who will help you understand how to protect your company's critical information and answer six simple questions to see how secure your data really is:

1. How do you identify sensitive information?
2. Where is the sensitive data located?
3. What are the points of access to the sensitive data?
4. How is each access point protected?
5. Who has access to what data?
6. How you track who accesses sensitive data?

Special introduction by Kristin Lovejoy, IBM Executive responsible for IBM's Corporate Security Strategy. Kristin has been recognized by Security Magazine in 2006 as one of the Top 25 most influential security executives.