Track Sessions
Over 70 sessions will offer insight and best practices to help you optimize your security and compliance initiatives. Hear real-world scenarios on how McAfee customers maintain the
highest standards of security. Benefit from deep technical presentations delivered by some of the brightest minds in the industry.
Network Security: Next-Generation Threats, Next-Generation Protection Solutions
McAfee network security solutions help enable operational efficiency, as well as advanced, layered defenses for some of the most sensitive and critical networks on earth. Attend this track to learn the latest trends and techniques, and find out how McAfee solutions help secure critical data centers, cloud infrastructures, corporate networks, and branch and remote offices worldwide.
Security Management: The GPS of Security
Deploy all the security you want, but without a way to “operationalize” or manage it, you will quickly become lost. Security management should make your security job easier, not harder. The cornerstone of McAfee’s security management platform is McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). Hear experts discuss how to use ePO to assess security risk postures and explain how ePO makes managing security easier and more consistent across environments. Presenters will share their experiences, insights, tips and tricks, and best practices.
Protecting the Device, the Data, and the Applications
The “bring-your-own-device” phenomenon has hit IT organizations hard and left many challenged to figure out how to manage the proliferation and diversity of devices. Simply managing these mobile devices, however, is not enough. As IT networks grant users access to corporate data, security becomes critical to prevent sensitive data loss. This track highlights the best practices of managing and securing all devices, as well as the apps and corporate applications these devices are accessing.
Building Your Strategic Security Plan
Any company or institution can suffer irreparable harm due to cyberattacks. It’s estimated that within the next five years, five trillion dollars in damages will be attributed to cyberattacks. This battle has become a full-blown war and in order to win, companies must first build their strategic security plan. Having a security plan enables organizations to properly invest, identify areas requiring innovation, and apply the right resources in the right places. This track highlights vital technologies and ROI strategies that McAfee is driving to help companies protect their information and win the war.
McAfee Labs
This track highlights five McAfee Labs initiatives that are improving the security McAfee provides to its customers: 1) The evolution and unique security capabilities provided by the McAfee DeepSAFE technology; 2) McAfee Labs’ vision for Global Threat Intelligence and the power of cross-vector threat correlation in identifying new and emerging threats; 3) Proof case for improving security efficacy based upon the deployment of multi-vector threat mitigation technologies (endpoint, network, and cloud); 4) The power of heuristic and behavioral analysis techniques to identify and block both host and web born threats; and 5) Update on the McAfee next-generation endpoint detection engine’s technology and deployment plans.
Next-Generation Endpoint Security
Today’s sophisticated threats are designed to steal data and compromise your business. To combat these threats, it is essential to utilize best practices to properly secure endpoints across your environment. Learn hands-on tips and tricks from McAfee experts, and understand how next-generation endpoint security will protect your infrastructure from chip to cloud. Find out how to apply technologies such as whitelisting, blacklisting, behavioral, memory scanning, and hardware-assisted security to protect against the different threat vectors targeting your endpoints.
Data Protection: The Easy Way
Discover how McAfee’s unified approach makes data protection effective and easy. Find out how you can protect and manage your sensitive data with endpoint encryption and data loss prevention. Explore how McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator provides robust security management in a streamlined, integrated way. Learn expert strategies and tips, real world examples, and best practices to optimize your organization’s data protection.
Next-Generation Data Center: Maximizing the Payoff
Data centers will need to embrace more virtualization and cloud computing capabilities to enable new levels of business agility and drive down costs. Because of the data center’s business-critical role, specialized tactics will be required to enable safe innovation in a cost-effective way. This track showcases partnerships with key data center infrastructure vendors and hybrid technologies for unified policy and controls across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Standards, Alliances, and Guidance to Compliance
IT compliance has matured quickly and there are now many resources to help develop a plan of action that is sustainable and demonstrates effectiveness through analytics, normalization, and lessons learned from those who have field experience. Attend this track and learn how optimized risk management works for compliance and how to gain more confidence in achieving privacy and data protection.
Public Sector: Efficiently Embracing State-of-the-Art Security Technologies
In today’s ongoing economic conditions, public sector organizations are forced to walk a tightrope between fulfilling business and mission objectives with reduced staff and budget. This track discusses how security professionals can embrace disruptive technologies such as cloud and mobile without putting their organizations and missions at risk. Find out how to improve security with less management overhead.
Protecting Critical Infrastructure
Beyond the headlines of impending doom that so often surround critical infrastructure, there are opportunities to optimize business operations, increase availability, and reduce risk. This track focuses on real threats and practical approaches to security in environments utilizing SCADA and ICS devices, as well as business optimization techniques.
Stronger Security Through SIEM
SIEM offers the promise of stronger situational awareness, simplified compliance, and an enhanced security posture. This track covers real-world best practices and customer case studies on how to get the most out of McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM). Topics covered include accurate attack recognition, insider threat monitoring, operationalizing SIEM, bringing content and risk into the McAfee ESM view, and leveraging the unified compliance framework.
Securing Web and Email
Web and email continue to be the primary channels for information flowing into and out of organizations. Protecting these vital channels has become increasingly more complicated as new deployment options, applications, and devices enter the mix. Find out how leading organizations have embraced new communication options and technologies without compromising corporate security.
Targeted Group Meetings
An assortment of targeted sessions will be offered at FOCUS on Thursday, October 25.
Check back later in the year for more details on FOCUS 12 targeted group meetings.
CPE Credits for FOCUS 12
CPE Credits for FOCUS 12
(ISC)2 Type "A" CPEs are awarded to (ISC)2® members for activities which are directly related to the Domains of the CISSP.
CPEs are awarded at the rate of one CPE per hour of activity for information security events. As an official (ISC)2® CPE Submitter, McAfee can submit CPEs for you after FOCUS 12. Please provide
your (ISC)2 member number and your first and last name to pam_granlund@mcafee.com, and your CPEs will be posted
by (ISC)2® within approximately 2-3 weeks. Credit requests must be received by December 31, 2012.
FOCUS ATTENDEES: Create your Own Agenda
The FOCUS Agenda Builder will be available this summer, so you can identify the sessions and events you most want to attend and make the most of your FOCUS experience. Check beck in the
coming months for details.