McAfee FOCUS 2010

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Share your security knowledge and expertise with professionals from around the globe by presenting at FOCUS 10.

Speaking at FOCUS is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the innovation of your organization's security initiatives. You'll connect with a diverse audience of professionals—executives, managers, and technical experts from a wide variety of industries. And as a FOCUS speaker, your conference fee is waived*—a $995 savings.

– General Guidelines	– Tracks and Proposed Sessions
– Important Dates

General Guidelines
When submitting a topic for FOCUS 10, be sure to take the following guidelines into consideration. FOCUS 10 presentations should be 45 minutes in length, with an additional 15 minutes for questions and answers. Ideal presentations will:

– Focus on best practices
– Offer in-depth technical strategies to combat the latest threats and attacks
– Incorporate specific customer case studies
– Present a clear value proposition
– Be user-focused, not promotional

Presentations will be judged for their strength of user-focus, especially around expected or derived business value and technical merit. Be sure to address one or more of the following business benefits:

– Accurate threat detection and response – Demonstrating and measuring compliance – Improved patch management – Improving productivity – Improving response times – Improving threat correlation – Lower management costs – Minimizing human error

– Minimizing the impact of new regulations – Raising operational efficiency – Reducing audit costs – Reducing complexity – Reducing user disruption – Streamlining and automating manual processes – Systematic policy enforcement

Additionally, your presentation should explore one or more of the following subject areas:

– Behavioral Analysis (User or Network) – Centralized Management (ePO) – Change Control – Consulting – Data Loss Prevention – Email Protection (Anti-Spam) – Endpoint Anti-spyware / Anti-virus – Endpoint Encryption – Host Intrusion Prevention – Mobile Security – Network Access Control – Network Firewalls

– Network Intrusion Prevention – Protection for Macs – Removable Media and Device Control – Risk and Policy Management – Security as a Service (Hosted Solutions) – Support/Services – Threat Response – Virtualization – Vulnerability Management – Web Security – Whitelisting

Tracks and Proposed Sessions
Your presentation should map to one of the following session tracks:
Track 1 — Integrated Security Benefits for the Business or One Plus One Equals Three
Proposed Track 1 sessions:
1. Infrastructure 2.0: Think Outside the Endpoint
2. Integrating Security and Systems Management Processes to Achieve Uptime and Efficiency Goals
3. Perfect Pairings: Peanut Butter and Jelly, Captain Kirk and Spock, McAfee and Microsoft
4. Extending McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator for Love and Money: A Preview of the New SDK
5. Getting to a Single Point of Reference for Security and Compliance Reporting
6. Protecting your IP while Providing Transparency: Share your Case Study
7. Managing Security in Less Time
8. The Security Paradox in Mid-Size Organizations

Track 2A — Actionable Threat Insights for 2010 and Beyond
Proposed Track 2A sessions:
1. An In-Depth Look at Detecting and Protecting Against Malware, Web, and
Spam Threats
2. An In-Depth Look at Detecting and Protecting Against Application Vulnerabilities and Network Threats
3. Reputation and Its Importance to Real-Time Threat Protection
4. Managing the Next Aurora: Predicting, Responding, and Triaging
5. Regional Threats Around the Globe: Similarities, Differences, and How What’s Happening “Over There” Impacts You
6. Cyber Security: The Underworld — Criminal Infrastructure and Resources
7. Global Threat Intelligence Case Study: Joint session with Artemis Customer on GTI Enterprise Deployment

Track 2B — Public Sector: Cyber Security for New Government Initiatives
Proposed Track 2B sessions:
1. The Global State of Cyber Security: How Diverse Countries Successfully Join Forces to Work Towards Common Security Standards and Metrics across the
Public Sector
2. Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Cyber Warfare
3. Securing Government 2.0 and Beyond: Upgrading to Security 2.0 to Meet the Next Generation of Technological Advancements
4. National Health Information Network: Protecting Citizens’ Information and Improving Public Health
5. Security in the Age of Mobility: The Latest Trends and Protection for the Mobile Workforce and the Mobile Classroom
6. Collaboration in Government: How to Ensure Safe Data Management in an Open, Collaborative Architecture
7. Managing a Hybrid Security Environment: Measuring, Managing, and Mitigating Risk in Mixed Management Environments

Track 3 — Network Defense: Focus on Intrusion Prevention Systems, Next-Generation Firewalls, Network Access Controls, and Threat and Behavior Analysis
Proposed Track 3 sessions:
1. Internal Security Best Practices: Protecting your Critical Data with Intrusion Prevention, Network Behavior Analysis, and Network Access Control Technologies
2. Leveraging the Cloud to Enhance Network Security: How to Leverage Artemis, Trusted Sources, Intrusion Prevention, and Next-Generation Firewall Technologies to Combat Next-Generation Threats
3. Incorporating Snort Best Practices into your Network Defense Regimen
4. Clean Pipes: How to Leverage McAfee Network Security to Better Protect the Enterprise Value Chain
5. Trends and Network Countermeasures for the Advanced Persistent Threat

Track 4 — Securing the Network: Focus on Web Gateway and Email Gateway Security
Proposed Track 4 sessions:
1. Reducing Costs and Streamlining Maintenance Through Hybrid Email Delivery
2. Why Move Protection to the Cloud: Addressing Safety, Privacy, and Compliance Concerns for a Mid-Market Deployment
3. Catching Fishy Email: The Success of McAfee Email and Web Gateway in
Mid-Size Organizations
4. McAfee Web Reporter: ROI of Delegated Reporting
5. Hybrid Web Delivery
6. Web Reputation: Stopping Emerging Threats
7. Best Practices: Migration Planning from McAfee Web Gateway 6.x to 7
8. Best Practices: Rule-Sets for McAfee Web Gateway 7
9. Best Practices: Fine-Tuning the Web Gateway Anti-Malware Engine
10. Best Practices: Performance Optimization
11. Tips and Tricks: Application Control with McAfee Web Gateway 7 —
From IM to Facebook
12. ROI: Web Gateway Anti-Malware — Reduce Clean-Up Costs and Maintenance
13. Why Replace your Current Proxy or Web Gateway with McAfee Web Gateway
14. Rethinking Email Security in Mid-Size Organizations

Track 5 — Data Protection: Focus on Encryption and Data Loss Prevention
Proposed Track 5 sessions:
1. Preparing for your Data Loss Prevention Deployment
2. Data Loss Prevention 9: Today and Tomorrow
3. Data Protection Enabling Business 2.0
4. Data Protection Trends and Best Practices
5. Data Protection Strategies When Protecting the Heterogeneous Environment
6. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Encrypted USBs
7. Easy Ways to Control and Protect Data
8. Endpoint Encryption Demystified
9. Getting Started with Data Protection
10. Simple Yet Effective Data Loss Prevention
11. Use Data Loss Prevention to Protect Confidential Data You Don’t Know
About Yet
12. Securing Data in 15 Minutes or Less — Customer Panel

Track 6 — Protecting Every System: Focus on Endpoint Security
Proposed Track 6 sessions:
1. Total Protection for Secure Business: Customized Security for Mid-Market Customers
2. System Security Strategy and Roadmap
3. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Uncovered: Tips and Tricks
4. Securing Virtualized Environments to Unlock Cost Savings
5. Integrating Security and Systems Management Processes to Optimize Uptime and Efficiency
6. Host Intrusion Prevention: Life After Deployment and Real-World Best Practices
7. The Role of Application Whitelisting: The Black, the White, and the Grey
8. Endpoint Security: On-Premise, Security-as-a-Service, or Hybrid —
Which Is Right for You?

Track 7 — Risk and Compliance: Focus on Vulnerability and Risk Management, IT System Controls and Services
Proposed Track 7 sessions:
1. Cutting the Cost of Compliance
2. Strategies for Building Sustainable IT Controls
3. Security Experts and Risk Advisors: Field Notes and Recommendations
4. Techniques to Extract the Most Benefit from Risk and Vulnerability Management

See the Breakout Sessions page for complete information on FOCUS tracks.

Important FOCUS Speaker Dates
March 12	Call for Topics open
April 26	Call for Topics ends
May	Speakers notified
September 13	Presentations due
October 12-14	FOCUS 10

* Speaker is responsible for travel costs, hotel fees, and all other expenses.