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Webcast: Top tactics for endpoint security
Length: 60 minutes
In this webcast, Rothke offers best practices for creating a centrally-managed endpoint security architecture. Get insight into integrating a variety of network-access control technologies in an organization's identity management program and tips for deploying an endpoint architecture that covers all access paths. Also learn how endpoint access control strategies differ or align with technology plays by the vendors in the endpoint security space.
Technical article: Keeping pace with emerging endpoint security technologies
Vendors have responded to the de-perimeterization of corporate networks with products designed to perform "health checks" of connecting devices, permitting access based on the security status of the endpoint. Here, Rothke provides an overview of endpoint security technology advancements and explains where the technology is headed. Gain a clear understanding of where the larger players and the smaller, best-of-breed players are headed, and how it all fits together.
Podcast: Endpoint enforcement: Smart policies to control the endpoint explosion
Length: 10 minutes
In this executive briefing, Rothke provides you with a thorough understanding of the security policies needed to control the myriad endpoints trying to access corporate networks.
Quiz
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About the instructor
Ben Rothke, CISSP, is the Director of Security Technology Implementation for a large financial services company. He has more than 15 years of industry experience in the area of information systems security and privacy, and his areas of expertise are in risk management and mitigation, PKI, security and privacy regulation, design and implementation of systems security, encryption and security policy development. Prior to joining his current firm, Rothke was with ThruPoint, Baltimore Technologies, Ernst & Young, and Citicorp, and has provided security solutions to many Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of Computer Security -- 20 Things Every Employee Should Know (McGraw-Hill 2006), and a contributing author to Network Security: The Complete Reference (Osborne) and The Handbook of Information Security Management (Auerbach).
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The start- and end-points of today's enterprise networks are radically different than they were 10 years ago. IT staffs no longer have control over every endpoint connecting to the network, leading to a host of problems where access control is weak or nonexistent. In this lesson, guest instructor Ben Rothke, Director of Security Technology Implementation for a large financial services company, provides tactics for endpoint security, policies for controlling endpoints and insight as to where endpoint security technology is headed.
