Security and Risk Management at Catalyst

Blogger: Trent Henry

Time flies when you're having fun.

(Or perhaps it's just flying because of my age...)

Either way, Burton Group's Catalyst Conference isn't too far away, and it's time to line up speakers.

Our guiding theme for 2008 is “security vital signs,” which includes assessing the vital signs and trends in the security market and measuring vital signs for security success within enterprise security programs. These themes are organized to push forward the areas of:

• Metrics: what should enterprises be counting and measuring, and communicating upstream?
• Host admission and network controls: what are the business drivers, trends, and architecture for layered network protection and endpoint assessment?
• Data protection and encryption: amid the trend toward information-centric security, how can enterprises properly manage encryption, keys, and related controls?
• “GRC”: what is the market messaging (and confusion) around governance, risk management, compliance, and how should the enterprise get value from the processes, even when tools are lacking?
• Going global: what are the appropriate management models and solutions in increasingly geographically diverse and multi-jurisdiction large organizations?

We'd love to have people put together some abstracts for these or related topics. Check out the submission form linked from www.catalyst.burtongroup.com/na08/SpeakersAbout.html.

Hope to see you in San Diego!

Comments

[Grant Hinkle]

Trent - I hope the conference goes well.

At my company we are preparing for our National User Group Summit in March which brings together product experts and industry thought leaders to share their extensive experience in enterprise risk and compliance management.

We also organize our presentations into two tracks; a business track to accommodate our executives and business users in attendance and a technical track to accommodate the administrators and developers attending.

Just an idea if you are still setting up your agenda. Good luck!