AirTight’s director of technology joins HP ProCurve executives for two informative sessions at the HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas
June 15-18, 2009, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Session: Wired/Wireless Management
Speakers: Dr. Hemant Chaskar, Director of Technology, AirTight Networks, Carl Blume, HP
This session offers timely advice for managing wireless and integrated wired/wireless networks from the perspectives of security, policy enforcement, performance optimization, and scalability.

Session: Wired and wireless Security
Speakers: Dr. Hemant Chaskar, Director of Technology, AirTight Networks, Mauricio Sanchez, HP
This session will present some differences and commonalities between protecting your network in a wireless versus a wired environment. It will outline the fundamentals of a comprehensive, multi-layered network security strategy and will drill down into some specific IDS/IPS (intruder detection system/intruder protection system) solutions that are particularly useful for combating wireless threats.

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Do you believe that IT security in private enterprise is a national security issue? I do and would love to hear your thoughts. You might want to take a look at the Airport WiFi and Financial District wireless vulnerability studies that AirTight performed recently to see just how badly some organizations are following b est practices when it comes to wireless security.
It appears that in some quarters folks felt that the President did not tell us anything we did not know in his speech on Friday about cyber security.  I think we need to understand, however, that the key phrase there is “anything WE did not know.”  At times we who work in technology live in a bubble and assume that everyone understands what we understand.  But technology or cyber security is our business – it is not the core business of the financial institution, the hospital, the school, the utility etc. Read more…

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