The Digital Drain: Why throwing money at network security is NOT a solution
2015 Investors Choice Conference features Internet security experts with the lowdown on why modifying digital behavior is the first step in defending against bad guys in cyberspace
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- You can deploy all the technology you can afford to fend off cyber attacks and protect your company's important data from theft, but if you fail to realize information security begins with personal responsibility, your valuable digital assets are wide open.
In the fast-paced world of "first to market" wins, where pressure to raise capital and invest in new enterprises is highly competitive, digital discipline is the best defense against hackers.
Behavior - not bucks - is the foundation of real information security practices. At the intersection of responsibility and accountability, human beings, not machines or software, will set the rules or suffer the consequences.
Two cyber security experts will conduct an interactive workshop on these issues at the Annual Investors Choice Conference in Midway, UT, Thursday, February 12, 2015:
What You Need to Know to Avoid Wasting Money Down the Digital Drain:
Investing and Enterprise Building in the Age of Cyber Insecurity
Eric Eder is CEO of Sequris Group, an advanced network security firm that provides services to some of the nation's leading companies. Sequris Group allows its clients to "venture beyond risk" in a global cyber environment that is now fully defined by risk.
John Harrington is CEO of Verify Research Associates and Senior Researcher for Blueshift Equity Research, turning his nearly four decades of award-winning investigative research experience toward Wall Street on the public equity side, as well as in private equity and venture capital with expertise in technology, networked communications, network security, data centers and fiber optic data transmission.
The issues they will cover in this interactive session include:
- Immersed In Risk – how much digital risk do organizations bring upon themselves by just not operating smartly?
- The art of identifying what needs protecting and what is safe to leave wide open
- What everyone from the CEO to the receptionist can do to help secure the digital enterprise
- Why sloppy digital behavior and APTs (advanced persistent threats) create open access for the Really Bad Guys move in and take over networks
ABOUT THE WAYNE BROWN INSTITUTE (WBI): The Wayne Brown Institute is America's oldest and most successful non-profit 501(c)(3) venture accelerator. To date, more than 800 groundbreaking high tech companies have presented in a WBI program; 70% have participated in financial transactions totaling more than $8.5 billion in private equity, accounting for 1/2% - 1% of venture capital deal flow in the U.S.
ABOUT THE SPONSORS: Zions Bank is the Founding Sponsor of the Investors Choice Conference. Additional principle sponsors include the law firm Ballard Spahr LLP, Tanner LLC, the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development and the Utah Division of Securities.
To register for the conference, click here or contact:
Matthew Zitting
Wayne Brown Institute
801.595.1141
[email protected]
SOURCE Wayne Brown Institute
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