Endforce Webinar Looks At Balance Between Mobility And Security

DUBLIN, OH ? Companies looking how to strike the right balance between mobility and network security may want to listen to a free webinar offered on Nov. 16 by Endforce that will feature experts from Enforce, IDC and Ziff Davis Media.

Speaking will be Chris Christiansen, Program Vice President – Security Products and Infrastructure Software Overview Research ? IDC; Dennis Brouwer, Senior Vice President – Business Development and Marketing ? ENDFORCE; and Frank Derfler, VP, Market Experts Group – Ziff Davis Media. They?ll explore the importance of endpoint security to the complete integration of the enterprise, and how to address enterprise compliance complacency.

Brouwer said today’s enterprises have invested millions of dollars in multi-vendor, best of breed security software and hardware solutions in an attempt to control mass infections, limit network downtime, and manage risk. However, most IT organizations are unable to centrally define security policies, systematically assess endpoint configurations, comprehensively report policy compliance, and enforce security policies in a transparent, non-disruptive manner.

Recent security breeches such as Blaster, Beagle, Slammer, and other worms and viruses have shed new light on the risks of having even a small number of non-compliant endpoints on the enterprise network. This risk is so great that by the first quarter of 2005, enterprises that don’t enforce security policies during network login will experience 200 percent more network downtime than those that do, according to a recent research study.

Therefore, it is now clearly time to augment traditional enterprise perimeter firewalls and intrusion detection/prevention strategies with a proactive approach that secures the most vulnerable component of the enterprise network, the endpoint itself.

But the question is: Once the decision has been made to enforce security policies on the PC’s in the hands of end users, what’s the best way to go about getting it done?

To register for this important webcast, click on Endforce.Com