Day 2 Morning: Security - Issues and Answers
8:00 a.m. - noon
Dress Code: Business Casual

Special Presentation: "Security: How To Survive As Sheriff In A Black-Hat World"
Presenter: John Kirschner, Lockheed Martin.

John Kirschner is a technology specialist who has over 25 years experience in IT. He has worked for Lockheed Martin and IBM as a I/T architect, systems engineer, systems programmer, instructor, and as a consultant. He is a certified IT security specialist and helps establish US government security policies in regard to new technologies. John is a certified I/T architect, certified business manager and certified large systems specialist. John is the author of numerous white papers on systems architecture, availability, performance, and ADPE modernization.

Topics Covered on Day 2 (Morning) Include:
  • Security Policy Properties & Goals
  • Access Control Models
  • Access Control Techniques
  • Accountability & Audit Trails
  • Identification & Authentication Techniques
  • Methods of Attack
  • System Monitoring
  • Password Management & Control
  • Lines of Defense



Afternoon Presentation: "BC and DR Best Practices and Winning Strategies "

Luis Zepeda, ACTS Advisory Board - BC and DR Best Practices and Winning Strategies (and a candid review of vendor weaknesses) This session will discuss how organizations today continue to push the limits of technology, and why technology is not quite ready for a Tier 7 solution in a multiple vendor environment with non XRC-PPRC presence. The presentation will review implementation options for recovery and explain how data loss varies depending on the vendor solutions and implementations. Luis will talk about what makes BC plans thorough and reasonable, and show how to actually impact your configurations to lower TCO and complexity. He will share and highlight keys to success in current technology, provide practical tips for establishing a common understanding across LOB's (Lines of Business) for technology engagement.

Presenter: Luis Zepeda, ACTS Advisory Board
Luis works for a large financial institution and has been involved with IT since 1973, in his career he has worked with all phases of the mainframe operating systems, architecture, and in large deployments of complex and large datacenter configurations for High Availability, big advocate of Parallel Sysplex as a key wining technology approach to Continuous Availability.His licence plates read today "PLX4EVR." Luis has been involved directly with the firm's Disaster Recovery/Business Resumption, Datacenter Consolidation, Architecture Design and Implementation of very Large Parallel Sysplex for High Availability deployments from the Global Technology Infrastructure perspective for many years. He has extensive expertise in configurations for High Availability of one of the largest mainframe Parallel Sysplex environments in existence today.


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