April 26, 2007

Protecting Your Enterprise Networks From Within: How to Make Sense of Endpoint Security

Presented by: David Strom, Author

We compare the three different architectural approaches of Microsoft, Cisco, and the Trusted Computing Group and talk about the different components of a solid endpoint security solution, along with describing the four questions that you need to have answered before you get ready to buy anything. We'll also talk about which vendors are leading and which are following in this important market.

About Our Speaker

David Strom is an international authority on network and Internet technologies. He has written extensively on the topic for 20 years for a wide variety of print publications and websites, such as The New York Times, TechTarget.com, PC Week/eWeek, Internet.com, Network World, Infoworld, Computerworld, Small Business Computing, Communications Week, Windows Sources, c|net and news.com, Web Review, Tom's Hardware, EETimes, and others. For several years David also wrote weekly opinion columns on eCommerce for IDG and networking columns in Infoworld and PC Week.

He is the author of two books: Internet Messaging (Prentice Hall, 1998) which he co-authored with Marshall T. Rose and Home Networking Survival Guide (McGrawHill/Osborne, 2001). He is also a frequent speaker, panel and focus group moderator and instructor at various industry events and trade shows around the world including Interop, CMP's Xchange, and for private clients.

David has been a guest on the Fox TV News Network, NPR, ABC-TV's World News Tonight and CBS-TV News and others media outlets. For over 10 years, David has authored the weekly Internet column "Web Informant", which has several thousand industry professional subscribers. Web Informant covers topics such as eCommerce, Web site usability, and web product marketing issues and more. Issues of Web Informant have been syndicated all over the world.

David's management background includes several editorial management positions for both print and online properties. He was the Editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware, the world's largest computing enthusiast collection of Web sites with an international audience of millions of readers. He was also the founding Editor-in-chief of Network Computing Magazine, and also held editorial management positions at VAR Business, EETimes, and PC Week.