IT-Harvest Brings Cyber Extortion Expert to Keynote Fourth Annual Security Summit; Other Experts Will Speak at All-Day Event on October 6th to Be Held at the Sheraton in Novi.NOVI, Mich. -- Cyber Extortion is on the rise worldwide! What should a company's response be when it receives a threatening e-mail detailing how its IT infrastructure will be destroyed unless a large sum of money is sent? This subject and more will be discussed at the fourth annual Detroit IT Security Summit hosted by IT-Harvest on Thursday, October 6th at the Sheraton of Novi. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS BARRETT LYON Barrett Lyon is Founder and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Prolexic Technologies. His recent meteoric me·te·or·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or formed by a meteoroid. 2. Of or relating to the earth's atmosphere. 3. career has been well documented in CSO (Chief Security Officer) The person in charge of all staff members who are responsible for promulgating, enforcing and administering security policies for all systems within an enterprise or division. Magazine, Wired, and numerous online news sources. His early days running a Bulletin Board Service in California led to his consulting career in Internet infrastructure. When distributed When distributed When issued. "denial of service A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack. " attacks began to be used against e-commerce sites, in particular online gambling businesses, Lyon jumped in to defend them with massive bandwidth and carrier-class networking equipment. DigiDefence, the precursor of Prolexic, successfully blocked a multi-gigabit DDoS attack in November 2003 and identified the name and location of Russian cyber terrorist "Ivan", who was subsequently caught in July 2004 by the NHTCU NHTCU National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (UK) . With Lyon's guidance, DigiDefence became Prolexic in July 2004 and since that time has protected the IT infrastructure for a majority of online gaming businesses. The network is now processing over 10 billion page hits per month. Prolexic was named one of twelve vendors invited to present to the Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States at the Emerging Security Technology Forum. RICHARD STIENNON Richard Stiennon is a vice president of Threat Research for Boulder, CO-based Webroot Software, Inc. He is responsible for providing leadership to Webroot's research team tasked with rooting out and defining the next level of malicious software and attacks. Prior to Webroot, Stiennon was VP Research at Gartner Inc. where he covered security Covered Security A class of securities, created by the NSIMA, that enjoys federally imposed exemptions from state restrictions and regulations. Most stocks trading in the US are covered securities. topics including firewalls, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, security consulting and managed security services for the Security and Privacy group. He is a holder of Gartner's Thought Leadership award for 2003 and was named "One of the 50 most powerful people in Networking" by NetworkWorld Magazine. Before working at Gartner, Stiennon led an online gift certificate venture backed by former Detroit Piston Isiah Thomas. He also served as a Manager of Technical Risk Services for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Detroit, Michigan. Stiennon founded one of Michigan's first ISP's, RustNet in 1994. Stiennon has spoken extensively throughout the U.S., as well as Mexico, Cannes, Tokyo , Mexico City, Sao Palo, Edmonton, Istanbul and Tel Aviv. Registration is $55 in advance and $75 the day of the event. The event includes Danish and coffee in the morning, a lunch sponsored by iPolicy, and a wine and cheese afterglow afterglow small amounts of light emitted by a phosphor after the stimulating radiation has ceased. Seen in x-ray intensifying screens and fluoroscopic screens. sponsored by Webroot Software. Please visit www.it-harvest.com for Summit schedule and more information. |
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