A presenter that needs no introduction, we are pleased to have Johnny Long join us before he embarks on his upcoming year-long adventure with his family to Africa. Johnny’s spent his career breaking into the world’s most secure facilities as a professional hacker. His insight into the threats your clients face is first hand, and his recommendations come from real-world experience attacking and securing hundreds of Fortune 100 and Government networks and facilities.

Technology Tracks

• Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems
  Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems; How they evolved, how they secure your network, and how they thwart attacks.Topics will include: Wireless packet sniffing –where it all began, the early years of WIDS [wireless intrusion detection systems], how WIDS became WIPS, Wireless vulnerability management, wireless attack overview, and a live demo of AirTight’s flagship product and member of the HP ProCurve ONE Alliance “Spectra Guard Enterprise”.
  with Anthony Paladino, Airtight Networks
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• Network Pen Testing: From Known to Owned in 50 minutes
  This session is a 50 minute procedure and tool based look at the general flow and activities which happen during a network penetration test. You will get to see some of the tools used to discover, assess, and exploit hosts, and best of all it will be done using tools that are available to everyone.
  with Ryan Linn, SAS
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• 10 Fun PacketShaper Tricks:
  Ten (or more) fun and interesting things you can do with a BlueCoat PacketShaper. The PacketShaper is a “traffic shaping” device, meaning that it monitors and affectively shapes the different types of traffic that pass through the device. When shaping the traffic there are many different ways that you can limit, block and re-direct certain types of traffic.
  with Tam Kitchens, CAD, Inc.
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• Hardening the Network Infrastructure
  Locking down your existing wired network infrastructure for securing access, management and increasing the overall security posture of your network.
  with Neal Hamilton, Technical Consultant, ProCurve Networking
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• Social Engineering - Here's How I Broke Into Their Buildings!
  An educational, frightening and downright entertaining session brought to you by an Inside Penetration Team Leader. During their Red Team assignments, Jack's job was to first get his team inside the client's buildings and then attack their networks directly from their own work stations. He retired from his Red Teaming days undetected.
  with Jack Wiles, President, The Training Co.
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• Website Security and PCI - Making it Easy
  PCI has a long list of requirements- several focused on your websites. Defending a website is complicated enough without wasting time or effort on checklist audit requirements. Can a singular website security strategy effectively manage threats and ensure sustainable compliance? Absolutely. How? This session will cover cost-effective tactics being used today by leading websites to maintain PCI compliance while ensuring the security of online customer, corporate data, and their guests.
  with Trey Ford, White Hat
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• Smart Planning for 802.11n Wireless
  Understanding the technical design differentiators for 802.11n and how to prepare your network and your organization for the new technology.
  with Eric Bell, Colubris/ProCurve Networking
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• Thinking Privacy: 10 Reasons Why Your Business Should Be More Concerned About Workplace Privacy
  Last year, the audience had a never-ending list of questions for our guest attorney during the roundtable to weigh in on legal issues surrounding technology. We're bringing him back for his own session in 2009!
  with Stephen Dellinger, Shareholder, Littler Mendelson, P.C.
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Technology Showcases

• Managed Security Services
  RacPack Spotlight
  Cutting costs with managed security services –Optimizing your organizations’ network security performance while saving money.
  with John Jabbusch, President & Chief Engineer, CAD
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• Web Application Security, Compliance & Integrity
  Breach Spotlight
  This session examines how WebDefend, a leading third generation web application firewall from Breach Security, is addressing these challenges by helping organizations across industry and government segments to improve the security, compliance and integrity of their web applications – in production. The session will cover the unique technical differentiators of WebDefend, the processes and best practices.
  with Brett Wilson, Breach
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• ProCurve Networking Wired, Wireless & Datacenter Roadmap
  ProCurve Spotlight
  Learn about the new and soon-to-be-released networking devices, switches, data center solutions, wireless and software from ProCurve Networking.
  with Neal Hamilton, Technical Consultant, ProCurve Networking
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• Splunk, A Search Engine for IT Data
  Splunk Spotlight
  The concept behind Splunk is simple, if Google can make it possible for users to search billions of pages of Web content, why can't we do that for the datacenter?
  with Patrick Ogdin, Systems Engineer, Splunk
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• Comprehensive Enterprise DAR Encryption
  Winmagic Spotlight
  Hardware vs. software based encryption and the true enterprise solution with Winmagic
  with Joseph Belsanti, VP Marketing, Winmagic
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• Going Green with Clean VPN
  SonicWALL Spotlight
  How to control and ensure Remote workers aren’t infecting your network.
  with Mark Holobach, Systems Engineer, SonicWALL
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• WAN Security & Monitoring: Fighting the Web Potatoes
  BlueCoat Spotlight
  Did you know that the average employee at US companies admitted to wasting an average of 2 hours a day on the internet according to Salary.com? Are you wondering what your employees are doing on the internet all day?
  with Kory Thornberg, CAD, Inc.
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• Juniper Networks: Distributed Enterprise Solutions
  Juniper Spotlight
  with George Bokas, Systems Engineer, Juniper
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Come play with the pros!
Well, the IT pros anyway. Our industry experts are going to take it to the green and see if they're as good on the course as they are in the office!

The Hot Topics Golf Tourney is open to all conference attendees who wish to join us. There is a $50 tourney registration fee for Thursday’s attendees and $90 for those participating only in the golf tourney.

Hot Topics Golf Tourney Details

Cost & Billing

The Conference is FREE (including all sessions). If you're playing in the Hot Topics Golf Tourney, there is a registration fee, which may be paid by a credit card or company invoice.

You are responsible for any travel and hotel arrangements. We have a block of rooms reserved at a special rate; please see above for instructions.

Please Note: If your organization has strict travel policies, we have a variety of options to incorporate your hotel accommodations into a conference pass. Please call Julie at 800.435.2212 (or 919.663.2211) extension 100 or email julie (at) cadinc.com.