Archived Webcasts

Building and Sustaining a Security Operations Center (07/29/2008)

Your security team plays a crucial role in securing and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your business' IT assets. However, time and resource constraints limit security operations and their effectiveness. Join our free webcast as we discuss best practices for building sustainable security operations that meet your business needs and make the most of your security team.

Security Business Impact Analysis (06/24/2008)

Understanding the impact security has on your business is essential to aligning your security program with business objectives. Recognizing the potential risks to your business processes allows you to prioritize security operations and allocate resources to more effectively manage those risks. However, many organizations experience "disconnects" between their IT security operations and the business processes they protect.

Join our free webcast as we discuss best practices for analyzing your business processes, identifying critical IT assets, determining their relative value and leveraging that information to improve your security program.

Best Practices for Log Management (02/12/2008)

Coming from devices all over your network, logs are rich with information. But collecting and retaining all of this log data and making sense of it, poses a significant challenge for most enterprises. Millions of logs are generated every day by firewalls, IDS/IPS, routers, switches, servers, databases, applications and other sources, making log management a difficult task.

Fueled by security and compliance requirements, many enterprises are turning to log management technology to ensure compliance and support forensic efforts. In this webcast we will discuss best practices to help you overcome the challenge of collecting, analyzing and retaining millions of logs everyday in an enterprise environment.

Using MSS for Security Information and Event Management without giving up control (11/01/2007)

Bringing together security data from across your enterprise and transforming it into actionable information is essential to protecting your assets and complying with regulations. However, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a challenging task that depends on having the right technology, people and processes in place. A successful SIEM process provides the actionable information you need to make more effective security decisions. It also delivers automated compliance reporting, removing the burden that gathering diverse security reports from firewalls, IDS/IPS, servers, applications and other systems presents. In this free, live webcast we will discuss how Managed Security Services can deliver successful Security Information and Event Management to your team.

PCI 2008 - Planning for Compliance (10/02/2007)

Improving compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is at the top of many companies list of priorities for 2008. The PCI Data Security Standard has 12 requirements for protecting cardholder data, covering network security, vulnerability management, access control and other areas. In this free, live webcast, we will discuss what companies have done and what they will be doing to comply, the PCI DSS requirements and best practices for improving your compliance in 2008.

Security Monitoring: Incident Recognition Best Practices (08/21/2007)

Deploying the right security technology in the right places is tricky enough - building the infrastructure to support that technology and get the most out of it is a formidable challenge. Detecting and responding to intrusions requires a combination of technology, process and skilled people. In this free, live webcast, we will look at successful security monitoring programs in large environments including technology selection, device monitoring and management, controls and processes.

Leading Techniques for Monitoring Your Network Security Logs (07/17/2007)

Log files are a treasure trove of security data. Many enterprises have already deployed or are considering technologies to help collect and interpret their log files. However, very few understand what it takes to get the most security value out of them. In this free webcast, we will discuss what technology and resources are required and examine best practices for enterprise log monitoring.

PCI 1.1 (05/22/2007): Best Practices for Meeting the New Standards

The new Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards increases security, but will also add to your regulation burden. The Data Security Standard has 12 requirements for PCI, covering the protection of cardholder data, vulnerability management, network security and access control. In this Webcast we will discuss the best practices for achieving compliance with PCI DSS and the 4 different levels of compliance.

Best Practices to Protect Your Company from Data Leakage with Guest Analyst Sandra Palumbo (04/18/2007)

Stolen laptops, emailed spreadsheets, cd's, old hard drives - data leakage and loss has become rampant. Despite policies and controls, companies are seeing more and more information escaping their organization - resulting in embarrassment, damages and fines. SecureWorks is proud to present Sandra Palumbo as she discusses her research into data leakage and how companies are trying to address this threat.

Paul Stamp Discusses the Benefits of Managed Security Services (03/06/2007)

SecureWorks is proud to present Forrester security analyst Paul Stamp who will explore how enterprise companies are using managed security services to increase security and to reduce costs. We will look at how managed security allows organizations to improve their early warning of threats, to gain analytical insight, and to anticipate and respond to targeted attacks. Please join us for this informative discussion with one of the leading security analysts for the enterprise.

Security Alert: Web Applications Exposure (01/30/2007)

Web applications are rapidly becoming the leading vector of attack against enterprises. Complexity, customer and employee requirements, and the involvement of third parties are all contributing to make websites vulnerable, exposing confidential data and opening the door to intrusion. In this free Webcast, SecureWorks security experts will discuss how web applications are being exploited to attack enterprises and how to defend your organization against these attacks.