Spring 2011 Cybersecurity Symposium and IT Executive of the Year Awards

Join us on 17 May 2011 for an exciting day focused on cybersecurity for small and medium business. Learn about how your educating your workforce can help protect your company from cyber criminals. The event will open with a “Town Hall” style meeting with Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher. Come and share your perspectives.

Click to register for this event. You will be redirected to the San Diego Business Journal’s event registration page.

Date:

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Location:

Doubletree Hotel San Diego - Mission Valley 7450 Hazard Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92108

Lunch Hour Workshop :

Protecting Your Home/Small Business Computer From Cyber Attack :
Presented by Glenn Jacobs, Author

The workshop provides a source of "how-to" basic techniques for making personal computers resistant to cyber attack. this workshop is focused on the novice to mid-range technically focused cybersecurity person. Topics covered will include:

• Wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) is a Security Risk ! How to minimize WiFi risk.
• Routers and Firewalls: How to configure them to maximize your computer's security.
• Stopping Malware: Virus, Worms, Trojans, Rootkits, "Spyware", & "Botnet sleepers".
• Browser and Web Surfing Security.

This workshop is based upon the presenter's book, Is Your Computer Bugged? - Protecting Your Computer From Cyber Attack (www.bookartcorner.com). The book will be available for sale at the workshop.

Workshop attendees will be provided with a pizza lunch. You must be registered to attend.

Symposium Panel Sessions:

PANEL I
Into the Breach: A Guide to Cybercrime Triage
If you don’t take steps prior to a cyber attack to protect your organization, you will likely have little or no options for legal options after the fact. What is truth? What is fiction? What must you do? As a small and medium business what steps do you need to take to ensure you are protected and manage risk in case of a cyber attack and how do you even begin to recover?
Moderator, Tawnya Boulan, Attorney General Office

PANEL II
Bringing IT home: What do you need to keep your business safe…
Starting from the basics to ensuring you have the right policies covered, this panel will offer key steps you need to take to keep your business safer in today’s ever evolving threatscape.
Moderator, Ruben Barrales – San Diego Regional Chamber

PANEL III
Future Shock: Are We Preparing Tomorrow’s Business Leaders for the Digital Age?
What are the needs of our business leaders? Is there a significant gap in what the higher level institutions are teaching and what the real business need is? Is cyber education part of the standard curriculum like English 101? If not, should it be? How do we gain closer alignment?
Moderator, Debra Rosen – North Chamber of Commerce

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Special Awards Reception with Hosted Hors D’Oeuvres will follow the Symposium

We will recognize the most outstanding information technology executives who work in San Diego, as nominated by their employers, employees or clients.

Please e-mail nominations to awest@sdbj.com or submit online at www.sdbj.com/bizevents/ Please keep responses to 200 words or less when responding to each question. Nominations not to exceed 5 pages.

Nomination Deadline: Wednesday, April 6, 2011
For More Information Contact April West at (858) 277-6695.

Click here to download the brochure for more information.

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