FOCUS Security Conference 2011 Speakers
Michael Sentonas
Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific, McAfee
KEYNOTE: A New Take on the Cyber Security Challenge
As emerging technologies and other influences continue to impact the business landscape, IT professionals face new information security challenges. Mitigating these risks requires the latest knowledge, big-picture perspectives and practical security strategies. McAfee, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, is an industry leader in cybersecurity innovation and strategy. This session will address the latest trends in security and discuss new approaches to staying safe in today's world of elevated cyber-risks.
Global Threat Update: Malware risks and trends
This session will review new and emerging trends in malware development and deployment such as Night Dragon, ShadyRAT and this year's attacks on major technology and financial services organisations. Topics covered will include mobile malware, social platform vulnerabilities, evolving hacker tactics, botnet trends, and hactivism/cyberwar events.
Speaker Bio
Michael Sentonas is the VP & CTO for McAfee in the Asia Pacific region. In his role, Michael is responsible for driving the integrated security architectures and platforms that have propelled McAfee into a leadership position in digital security with a focus on the Asia Pacific region. An active public speaker on security issues, Michael has spoken around the world at sales conferences, customer and non-customer events and contributes to various government and industry associations' initiatives on security. He has over fifteen years' experience in the IT industry, focusing on internet security solutions with past roles including software development, security consulting and management.
Sean Duca
Enterprise Solutions Architect, Australia and New Zealand
Database Security, Hacking and Protection
Have you discovered that your corporate databases can be easily hacked? This session will cover the challenges and limitations of database management systems and native security methods. It will examine the key business drivers needed to protect your critical information assets and sensitive information. Sean will discuss protection strategies and highlight ways to overcome the challenge of rapid patch deployment to provide increased security, compliance, and improved database operation.
Product Update
This session will provide recent updates across McAfee's broad range of products and solutions. Learn how your organisation can balance the business need to embrace virtualization, hosted services in the cloud, mobile devices, and mission critical infrastructure while protecting your critical assets and sensitive data. This session will include sneak-peaks of the Intel/McAfee collaboration and is not-to-be-missed!
Speaker Bio
Sean is responsible for providing security advice, best-of-breed security solutions and professional services to McAfee's key enterprise customers in the region. With McAfee for more than a decade, Sean previously held the role of Sales Engineering Manager responsible for managing a team of pre-sales engineers. He has over thirteen years experience in the IT industry, focusing on internet security solutions with past roles including software development, technical support and security consulting. As an active public speaker on security issues, Sean is regularly invited to speak at industry events and conferences.
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