VB 'Securing Your Organization in the Age of Cybercrime' Seminar

The 2nd VB 'Securing Your Organization in the Age of Cybercrime' Seminar was held in association with the MCT faculty of The Open University on 24 May 2011 at the OU Campus in Milton Keynes, UK.

The VB 'securing your organization in the age of cybercrime' seminar gives IT professionals an opportunity to learn from and interact with security experts at the top of their field and take away invaluable advice and information on the latest threats, strategies and solutions for protecting their organizations.

For details of the first VB Seminar, which took place 25 November 2010 in London, click here.

Programme

View the full seminar programme here.

Delegates can access slides from the event here.

Speakers included:

Alex Shipp, TrustDefender - Tricks and traps - how malware tries to evade detection
Mark Harris, Sophos - Mobility - where is the risk?
Alan Jenkins, CSC - Value-add to business from active Security Risk Management
David Emm, Kaspersky Lab - Lifting the lid on rogue anti-virus programs
Alexandru Catalin Cosoi, BitDefender - The low hanging fruit
Rik Ferguson, Trend Micro - Addressing the new security challenges posed by virtualisation and cloud computing
Amie Taal, Grant Thornton LLP - Who cares about Intellectual Property and why is it so important to protect it?
Becky Pinkard, Research in Motion - The data melting pot - computing in the cloud
John Walker, Secure-Bastion - The extended perimeter of operations

The VB Seminar was sponsored by:

"Since its inception in 2001, BitDefender has continued to raise the bar to set new standards in proactive threat prevention, in many cases leading the way in detection techniques to prevent the spread of malicious threats.

"BitDefender made its entrance on the international market when opening offices in the UK, USA, Germany, France and Spain as well as establishing strategic partnerships and a local presence in over 100 countries globally.

"By the end of 2009, BitDefender was protecting many millions of users globally and has established trusted use of our technology household names like IBM and Virgin Media through strategic partnerships.

"BitDefender provides solutions using the same award-winning technology for consumers and for corporate networks from the small business right through to the global enterprise, protecting all endpoints.

"The BitDefender proprietary technologies, based on innovative ideas and leading trends in the information security industry, continue to be internationally recognised by independent organisations which reward our outstanding results through numerous prizes and certifications, Av-Test.org, Virus Bulletin, ICSA Lab, Checkmark, PC World Top 100, ComputerActive and Which? to name but a few.

"BitDefender strives to constantly develop technology to stay one step ahead in offering our customers the best levels of detection, combined with flexible usability and performance."

The VB seminar was supported by: