Gartner Security Summit Nearly Here

If you haven't taken a look yet, you may want to visit the Gartner Information Security Summit website and see the newly unveiled agenda for the event, slated for June 28-July 1 in Washington, D.C. The event offers several tracks depending on your role:

TRACK A: The CISO's Role: Information Security Management Planning
TRACK B: The Network Security Professional
TRACK C: Applications and the Security Role
TRACK D: Security and Risk in Your Industry
TRACK E: Privacy and Data Security: Working with the Chief Privacy Officer
TRACK F: Professional Effectiveness Workshops

From there, you can use the Gartner web tools to build you own agenda, including such presentations as the keynote: The Inheritance: Challenges to the New Administration in CyberSpace, presented by David Sanger, journalist and author. Other agenda items include:

• Gartner Keynote Panel: Worst Best Practices and Useless Useful Technologies Unmasked
• Your Role in Information Security, F. Christian Byrnes, Managing VP, Gartner
• Keynote Panel: My Role in Information Security from Four Perspectives: Engineer, Auditor, CISO, and CIO, moderator Paul Proctor, VP & Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
• Keynote Panel: The CISO's Skill Set, moderator Ray Wagner, Managing VP, Gartner

Also, new this year are interactive workshops that focus exclusively on management and organizational issues, and end user case studies, a look at what’s happening in key industry sectors, including manufacturing, health care, and financial services.

Lastly, more than 90 vendors will exhibit at the conference. A listing of current exhibitors is available on the Solution Showcase page.

For complete event details, please visit the Gartner Information Security Summit Web site at www.gartner.com/us/itsecurity.