The University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and MIS Research Center have teamed up with IP3 Inc., the nation's leader in information security education and research, to offer a workshop on IT security on June 5-6, 2007 "Strategy to Reality" is a 2-day technical workshop for corporate IT security directors will be offered at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

This is a must attend event for the serious IT security professional. The educational nature of this workshop will help prepare you for devising an effective and secure defensive strategy in architecting or securing your networks.

Compliance is the driver in virtually every sector. Merchant policing by the credit card vendors, HIPAA compliance in response to board-level initiatives, FISMA in the Federal agencies and the titan of security concerns, SOX are driving priorities and budgets.

Compliance here means reporting, logging, auditing and analyzing the situation. Not fixing it - first simply seeing it. Not securing the systems but monitoring and attesting to the security framework now in place.

Budgets for security are going to professional fees and auditing costs.  That's where security budgets are getting lost. But the answer has been to use new security technologies to lower these ongoing costs by addressing logging, reporting, auditing and analysis.

IP3's From Strategy to Reality:  Securing the Converged Enterprise puts you right on target. We've been covering cyber law and regulatory compliance but our treatment of security economics has helped us focus on the fungible business opportunity to attack the run-away audit and compliance costs through better technology deployment.

At the seminar, you will receive a 300-page workbook, the IP3 Security Tools CD ( filled with tools, whitepapers and relevant links) and two content-crammed days of IT security training you're not going to want to miss.

  Seminar topics will include:

• Cryptography
• Firewalls
• IPS's / IDS's
• Authentication Mechanisms
• Vulnerabilities and Exploits
• Regulatory & Compliance Issues
• Sarbanes-Oxley
• GLBA
• HIPAA
• FISMA
• SB1386

Click here to register

Use the registration code UMN60 to receive your complimentary admission to the seminar. The first 10 to register is complimentary. Starting with 11 and up the cost is $100. Use registration code UMN100
Call Judy at IP3 to check on the MISRC registration status at 989.771.1007

(iPod not included.)
 - an $895 value - courtesy of the University of Minnesota.

Attend any IP3 seminar and receive a chance to win a CompTIA Security+ voucher.
http://certification.comptia.org/security/default.aspx

We look forward to seeing you there!

Room: 2-260Z Carlson School of Management
Time: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Continental breakfast- 8:00 a.m.-8:30

For a workshop outline, registration and event location information on this intensive 2-day overview on the latest security vulnerabilities and technologies, please visit www.ip3seminars.com.

MIS Research Center contact information:

E-mail: misrc@csom.umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-0862