We had a great Chicago Security & Compliance User Group meeting on March 8.  A fantastic presentation by Rich Bagurdes was very valuable and shows some real world examples of how to leverage all of SEP's features.  There was also another great presentation by Min about SEP 12.1 Amber that highlighted the new virtualization features and generated lots of additional questions and interest around the upcoming SEP 12.1  product.

Here are the available slides and even some video of the presentation.  Thanks goes to everyone who participated to make this another great event.  I am looking forward to participating at the next one that is coming soon in August 2011.

Enjoy!

Mark

The User Centered Design (UCD) team here at Symantec exists to help make customer experiences easier, more efficient and more useful for you.  Right now, we're ramping up several research projects where we are looking for those in security and compliance with a manger, director or CISO role to give us feedback in the form of short user stories.  This should require only a 30-45 minute commitment on the phone to share experiences and points of pain, and this effort is "product agnostic" so as long as you are involved with security, regardless of products used, we'd like to hear from you!

If you are interested, please email Kellie Mecham at kellie_mecham@symantec.com to arrange a date and time for the phone interview. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

Best wishes,

Kellie

With Data Breaches Increasing, a Strategic Approach to Encryption Is Essential

Why are enterprises using encryption? What encryption applications are in use? How are organizations planning for encryption?

Those are just a few of the questions that the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by PGP Corporation, sought to answer in its fourth annual survey, “U.S. Enterprise Encryption Trends.”

With the frequency and costs of data breaches on the rise, the survey of nearly 1,000 business and IT leaders concluded that “the need for encryption is more apparent than ever.”

This TechBrief summarizes the key findings of the survey.

Breaches continue to be a huge problem

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Here's your chance to be "King for a Week" with our new Security Solutions Contest! 

What Is the Security Solutions Contest?
It's all about solving end user questions in the forums area.  We created this contest to help increase the total number of solutions on the Security Community.  We are going to select threads we'd like you to solve, and give you an opportunity to win a weekly prize. Yes, I said "weekly!"  Keep reading to find out more about the prize!

How Do I Participate?
First, if you want to play, pull out your dust-ridden, coffee stained endpoint protection & related security product manuals, re-read all the latest and greatest knowledge base articles, and put your thinking-caps on! 

Why?  Because to be the "King for a Week" in this contest, you need to be able to solve popular forum threads that will be hand...