3rd Annual IMI Security Symposium and Expo
October 30, 2009
NKU METS Center
Erlanger, Kentucky
The 2009 IMI Security Symposium is a one-day event, which focuses on IT security challenges, best practices, and professional discussions. This annual symposium brings together IT professionals for engaging talks, training, and live demos on cutting edge security products.
The Security Symposium is organized into three tracks:
Infrastructure Protection
This informational track addresses the security of an organization’s information and infrastructure. Topics such as firewalls and intrusion detection will be part of the discussion.
Application Software Security
This informational track incorporates knowledge about how identity theft is being fought and information integrity is being secured by industry ingenuity.
Information Security Governance and Compliance
This informational track focuses on the understanding and implementation of management policy, procedures, IT audits, continuity planning, and security awareness and training.
Featured Speaker
 Kevin Gallagher is an Assistant Professor in the Business Informatics Department at Northern Kentucky University. He holds Ph.D. and MS degrees in Management Information Systems from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Through efforts lead by Dr. Gallagher, the College of Informatics at Northern Kentucky University recently completed an extensive study of IT security policies, practices and performance. The study collected information from over 500 organizations nationwide representing a wide variety of industry sectors and organization sizes. Dr. Gallagher will present the results of this study and approaches organizations can take to improve security at this year’s Security Symposium.
Keynote Speaker
 Patrick Gray joined Cisco Systems as its Senior Security Strategist after serving as the Director of X-Force Operations, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS). Gray also comes to Cisco Systems after twenty years of service with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Upon his retirement from the FBI in November 2001, he joined Internet Security Systems and created the X-Force Internet Threat Intelligence Center and thereafter was Director of the Penetration Testing and Emergency Response Teams until his promotion to the X-Force R & D Team. As a result of his service with the FBI, and the Internet Threat Intelligence Center, he has first-hand knowledge of the hacking community, its aims and methodologies as they attack government, ecommerce, energy and financial entities relentlessly. Continue Reading...
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