Chairperson's Message

Tom Coughlin
President
Coughlin Associates

Customer trust is the cornerstone of a successful business.  If customers lose trust in an enterprise, their loyalty is damaged and they will look for more trustworthy alternatives.  In order to attract or maintain customers, a business must protect customers’ data.  The Data Protection Summit is the right place to learn how to keep data safe and secure and retain customer confidence and loyalty.

Data security is a driving force in new technology development.  The Data Protection Summit will highlight these leading-edge solutions for security in the business world. 

The first day of the Summit will focus on Forums in three areas:

1. Disk Encryption Forum
2. Windows Desktop Security Forum
3. Virtualization Security Forum

Also, learn how to create and implement data protection and security in two half-day tutorials on the second day of the Summit, as well as experience a hands-on Trusted Computing Group laboratory.  One tutorial focuses on creating a data protection plan while the other tutorial addresses implementing and managing that plan.

The third day of the Summit features sessions exploring many important themes for data protection and security, including:

• Compliance
• Human factors in security
• E-Discovery
• Business continuity
• Secure sharing
• Mobile security
• E-Mail security

Evening events at the end of the first and second day of the Summit provide ideal environments for relaxed networking and discussion with data protection and security experts.  The first evening features an Issues Roundtable on “How to Prevent Data Breaches”.  The second evening, participants will enjoy the beer and pizza discussion with experts in small face-to-face discussion groups.

During the Summit, sponsoring companies will provide distinguished experts making keynote presentations on diverse data protection and security topics.  Sponsors and other exhibitors will also be highlighting their technologies, initiatives and products.

Whatever your business or activity, whatever your industry, your customers depend on you to protect their data and maintain a reliable and trustworthy business environment.  The Data Protection Summit provides the tools, contacts and ideas to develop and maintain that trust.  Come to the Data Protection Summit on March 11-13, 2008 at the Hilton Hotel at the Orange county Airport in Irvine, CA, to learn from the experts.