Focus.com Launches IT Security Week with Expert Roundtables, Starting August 09, 2011
Online expert network previews this week's roundtable events on IT security for more than 1 million business and technology professionals
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus.com, the leading community for business expertise, with more than 1 million members and over 5,000 business and technology experts, today launched IT Security Week with a full schedule of expert online roundtables for the week of August 08, 2011.
IT Security Week offers a series of six free roundtable panels that will explore a variety of security risks facing SMB's and enterprise economies. Top experts in risk management, information technology, network security, and threat research will discuss the security challenges facing SMB's and what steps they can implement to properly defend themselves.
The schedule for IT Security Week is as follows:
- Tuesday, August 9
11am PT / 2pm ET - Security in the Cloud: Data Sovereignty, Open Source and Multi-Tenancy
- Tuesday, August 9
1pm PT / 4pm ET - Enterprise Security: Embedding Information Security into Your Organization's DNA
- Wednesday, August 10
11am PT / 2pm ET - Security Awareness Roundtable - Understanding the Real Challenge
- Wednesday, August 10
1pm PT / 4pm ET - What Happens if Your Cloud Service Provider Goes Out of Business?
- Thursday, August 11
11am PT / 2pm ET - Securing the Mobile Enterprise: Do the interests of enterprise collide with the demands individual?
- Friday, August 12
1pm PT / 4pm ET - Security Gotchas that are Often Overlooked in SMBs
"IT Security is a top concern for many SMB's and this week we offer a great series of free events dedicated to the topic," said Scott Albro, CEO of Focus. "It has become all too common to read about a network security breach occurring because of a hacker or technical error. However, this week we're looking forward to addressing not only concerns, but solutions."
The Focus Expert Roundtables are 45-minute online and teleconference events, and for each, there is one Lead Expert and two to four Expert Panelists. The Lead Expert moderates four to seven questions and drives the discussion as the Expert Panelists weigh in with thoughts, answers and feedback of their own. Questions asked during the event are also posted on Focus.com, and Expert Panelists will continue to answer questions on the site following the event.
It is entirely free to join Focus.com, and members can listen live to the online events and teleconferences, download the audio file and read the transcript. Additionally, all roundtable transcripts are made available to members for free following each event via stylized PDF documents.
For more information about the Focus Expert Roundtable events, and to access instructions on how to register as a Focus business expert, as well as gain access to the latest business research and expertise on the Focus network as a member, please visit www.focus.com.
About Focus.com
Focus.com is the leading online business professional network that consists of two interconnected groups – a membership base of more than 1 million business professionals and the highly-acclaimed Focus Expert Network, which features more than 5,000 of the most-recognized business and technology experts across every business category. Focus.com is ad-supported and entirely free to join. Within its engaged business community, members interact with each other and Focus experts to make more-informed business decisions.
To become a Focus expert, the Focus.com staff conducts an evaluation of the background and credentials of each candidate in their respective industry. In addition to free access to world-class business advice, Focus.com also offers real-time Q&A, industry research, relevant product and service information and personalized support. For more information, and to register to become a member or Focus expert, please visit http://www.focus.com/.
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