Effective IT strategy requires a comprehensive approach that aligns IT and the business by addressing multiple areas of discipline including IT risk management, operational efficiency, IT best practice and technology enablement. In particular, it requires a process that follows a proven model and takes into account an organization’s unique culture and attitudes toward risk.

At Symantec, we believe that good IT strategy should be capable of doing two things at the same time. IT strategy written and executed in the right way should drive efficiency up and risk down.

Many organizations today have become too fixated on one or other of these two focus areas, this can lead to inefficient use of money and resources (if focus is too fixated on “risk”) or unacceptable risk postures (when IT strategy focuses too heavily on efficiency). Clearly a balance is needed. The Symantec INFORM methodology helps our clients to find that balance by thinking...

Six tracks with technical content geared for the functional IT audience will be presented in break-outs and hands-on labs. They will focus on following solutions:

Track: Infrastructure Protection
Today's security threat landscape involves targeted, and financially-motivated attacks aimed at exploiting numerous vulnerabilities in a variety of systems-endpoint devices, email servers, messaging vehicles, and online applications. Managing the security of the entire infrastructure has become an important and increasingly challenging task. As the demand increases to better protect enterprise data from external attacks, insider abuse, bad business processes, or simple mistakes , key to security professionals is to have the right solutions and techniques available to effectively manage the complete endpoint environment.
Sessions in this track cover best practices for implementing a simplified, holistic approach to endpoint security that protects...