Managing network change

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Presented by: Yama Habibzai (Senior Director, Marketing) - Netcordia  

According to research the #1 cause of network problems are people making changes. Controlling these changes can go a long way toward improving network performance. This session describes importance of network configuration and change management, how to plan, execute and validate network changes, and automate global changes based on corporate policies and requirements.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

A networking perspective from the ground up

11:10 AM - 11:40 AM

Presented by: Al Pooley (Director of Core Infrastructure) - Star:The Business ISP  

The delivery of Internet-drive technology is critical. The foundation for deploying these technologies needs to be a solid network that meets business needs today and the future. This session will outline the best way to deliver a network with the highest levels of business continuity, resilience and uptime.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

Network access control as an integral part of enterprise security

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Presented by: Nick Hancock (EMEA Product Manager - Security and Mobility) - HP ProCurve  

This session will explain how to control access to a network with policies, including pre-admission endpoint security policy checks and post-admission controls over where users and devices can go on a network and what they can do.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

Meeting security compliance standards in a multi-vendor integrated world

12:30 PM - 13:00 PM

Presented by: Rob Pocock (Security Products Manager) - Phoenix Datacom  

Organisations of all sizes are protecting themselves with a wide variety of techniques and security products from multiple vendors - but few have adequate resources to meet compliance by monitoring and responding to the variety of alerts and logs that are raised. This session looks at affordable ways of solving that problem and completing the compliance jigsaw.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

How to make a successful NAC implementation part of your enterprise roadmap

13:10 PM - 13:40 PM

Presented by: Trent Fitz (Vice President of Product Management and Marketing) - Mirage Networks  

This session gives you the information you need to make informed decisions about how to secure your network. It will discuss NAC and how much more it can do for you, whether to choose a software or hardware based solution, and how to prevent vendor lock in.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

The convergence of network management and security in high speed application aware networks

13:50 PM - 14:20 PM

Presented by: Tim Wansbrough (International Technical Manager) - Lancope  

This session will look at the emergence of Network Behavioural Analysis Solutions (NBA) and how these solutions can enable network traffic analysis, zero day attack detection and remediation in today’s 10gig, virtualised and MPLS environments.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

Best practices for wireless network security

14:30 PM - 15:00 PM

Presented by: Peter Mackenzie (Head of Technical Operations) - MarQuest  

Wireless LANs are a core component of most corporate network infrastructures and wireless network security has become a minefield which can be confusing and complex. This session looks at which threats must be considered real and defended against, demystifies the available solutions and explores how to plan wireless security to protect against network attacks.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

Facing the Unified Communications security challenge

15:10 PM - 15:40 PM

Presented by: Peter Cox (CEO) - UM Labs Ltd  

Unified Communications promises a communication revolution at least as significant as that triggered by email and web. However, new applications mean new security threats. The complexity of UC protocols means that the new threats are not addressed by existing security technologies.

This session examines these threats and suggests some solutions.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

IT Search for Your IT Infrastructure

15:50 PM - 16:20 PM

Presented by: Hash Basu-Choudhuri (Sales Engineer) - Splunk   Rich Wilson (Regional Sales Manager) - Splunk  

Search and navigate IT data from applications, servers and network devices in real-time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts, code, metrics and more. If a machine can generate it - Splunk can eat it. This session will take you on a demo of IT Search and show you how.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

Business continuity & preventative security for the high performance business

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Presented by: Nik Haidar (Product Development Director) - Telstra International  

In a world of ever increasing risk and crime organisations need to be agile and ever alert to the threats posed to their business, this session will show you how to put data security and business continuity at the core of your network.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

PCI Compliance and the network

11:10 AM - 11:40 AM

Presented by: Tim Connelly (Director of Systems Engineering) - Netcordia  

If your organization accepts credit card payments, chances are, your network team is grappling with new Payment Card Industries (PCI) compliance requirements. And if you are not, you will soon. The greatest challenge in achieving PCI compliance resides in managing specific network requirements and requires a network team that can manage unprecedented levels of change and complexity. This session will help you get a head start on some of the best practices in becoming PCI compliant.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

Securing your virtual infrastructure investment

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Presented by: Mark Clemence (IT Director) - Cluttons LLP   Owen Beesley (Security Consultant) - Kaspersky Lab  

Today's businesses are implementing virtual infrastructures to help save time, money and provide more control. But this shift to virtualisation can open a raft of security risks. As the IT landscape changes, the scope of security must change. It demands of security professionals to manage the implications. This joint discussion will investigate what steps should be taken to maximise and secure the investment made into virtual infrastructures, based on a case study example.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

VMWare, Disaster Recovery & the San Andréa’s Fault: How Google’s Law Firm implemented a Geo-Virtualised DR System

12:30 PM - 13:00 PM

Presented by: Tom Brierley (EMEA Systems Engineering Manager) - InMage Systems Inc.  

Howard Rice LLP represents the big boys of Silicon Valley, including Google & the Oakland Raiders Football team.

But unlike the big Law firms of the Valley, Howard Rice’s small IT Team of 15 people means it needs to do more with less.

Hear how Howard Rice, with concerns about it’s primary Data Centre residing on top of an Earthquake fault zone, virtualized and geographically spread it’s servers and applications, implemented anywhere to anywhere data mobility, and utilised intelligent systems to manage fail-over, failback and replication of key Apps such as Sharepoint, and Exchange.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

Maximising speed and optimising security

13:10 PM - 13:40 PM

Presented by: Mark Burton (Product Management Director) - Ipanema Technologies  

Networking and security professionals often see the world differently, one needing to deliver as much data as fast as possible and the other stopping traffic to check it is safe. This session will discuss how to build an effective multi-tier solution that delivers both security and acceleration.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

Securing the virtual world

13:50 PM - 14:20 PM

Presented by: Ben Coleman (Area Manager) - CI-Net  

Virtulisation is taking the IT industry by storm but do you have a security strategy tailored to your virtual environment? Traditional security systems rely on hardware and special operating systems to protect your environment. These are rendered useless in a virtual environment where the goal is to reduce or eliminate hardware. We will look at virtual firewall technology and explain how this will secure your network in the new virtual world. We will also look at how extending the virtual world to all desk tops and laptops with ‘PC-on-a-stick’ technology can massively enhance security by ensuring a centrally managed trusted environment on any and all PC’s.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre

How to make a successful NAC implementation part of your enterprise roadmap

14:30 PM - 15:00 PM

Presented by: Trent Fitz (Vice President of Product Management and Marketing) - Mirage Networks  

This session gives you the information you need to make informed decisions about how to secure your network. It will discuss NAC and how much more it can do for you, whether to choose a software or hardware based solution, and how to prevent vendor lock in.

Theatre: Network Security & Management Theatre