SHARE in Boston in August

Phil Smith of Voltage will be talking at the SHARE meeting in Boston next month. His talk will be on Tuesday, August 3 from 9:30 - 10:30 am, and the topic is Enterprise Encryption 101. Here's a quick summary of what he'll be talking about:

We've all seen the seemingly weekly news about yet another data breach: millions of credit card numbers, SSNs, or other personal information exposed. Encryption is the technology that minimizes the cost of such data breaches, by making the "leaked" data useless to the thief. So more and more sites are investigating encryption, some even before a breach occurs. But where do you start with this technology? How do you make a sensible choice among dozens of vendors, between hardware and software? Where and when do you encrypt data, and is that sufficient? What about emerging standards and legislation, such as PCI DSS, Red Flag, GLBA, SB1386, Directive 95/46/EC, et al.? Come hear about implementing encryption from a business perspective -- what you need to worry about and how to approach it. This is not a comparison of encryption technologies per se, but rather a look at the issues surrounding them. While the presenter works for an encryption vendor, this is a general presentation, with minor content at the end that discusses the Voltage SecureData product as an example.

If you can't make it to Phil's talk, you can download the slides for his talk here. That's probably not quite the same as seeing the talk in person, but it's probably much cheaper.