Webcasts

Join industry experts from The Aegenis Group and executives from Motorola and AirDefense for this 90-minute educational webcast. We hope participants will gain a better understanding of the real threats to an organization’s wireless security network, how to adopt PCI compliance and a layered approach to security, and how to protect corporate brand integrity.

The introduction of wireless technologies has created a new category of entry points to the network, circumventing traditional security components. Many publicized data breaches in the retail and financial industries have exploited the ever increasing landscape of wireless vulnerabilities. Most recently, sophisticated thieves have recognized that these wireless deployments offer the perfect entry point into an unsecure network, allowing them to access and steal valuable customer information. According to the independent research firm Gartner, identity theft through wireless vulnerabilities has increased by over 50% since 2003.” Hackers have been able to access sensitive applications and databases regardless of security systems such as firewalls and VPNs.  More and more high profile breaches are being documented in national headlines, most recently was the indictment of those thought to be responsible for the largest US data breach to date. The impact of these breaches to the retail and financial sectors are real and has resulted in millions of compromised credit cards and multiple millions in fines and lawsuits.

Many retailers and financial institutes continue to rely only on traditional security systems such as firewalls, VPNs, and/or network segmentation to secure their networks. Even more organizations have a false sense of security with PCI compliance. The recent changes to PCI make it even tougher for retailers to stay ahead of potential attacks and vulnerabilities. Security will always be a top priority for retailers and financial services providers, and with each evolutionary step in the industry, security must overcome new threats. Whether an institution has a dedicated wireless network or a no wireless policy in place, adopting company-wide policies are vital to thwart these attacks and provides the least costly method of adhering to compliance and regulatory requirements.

Attend this complimentary webcast for an overview of some of the most important threats that wireless technologies present to network security and learn why traditional defenses or being PCI compliant alone, is not enough.

Mr. Mike Dahn, MSIA, CISSP, Founder & CTO is an experienced information security professional and PCI expert. Mr. Dahn has performed hundreds of PCI security assessments for merchants, service providers, acquirers, and payment application vendors. He worked with Visa and MasterCard on the continued development of the PCI DSS and PABP standards. Most recently he developed and delivered training of all PCI qualified security assessors (QSA) globally in the US, UK/Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America. In addition to performing the first PABP assessment, he has also delivered training on PCI DSS to merchants, acquirers, and payment application vendors in the UK, Australia, Japan, and Korea. Prior to this work he led the internal rollout of the Discover Information Security Compliance (DISC) program for Discover Network. Mr. Dahn has given numerous speaking engagements for a variety of security and commercial associations such as the FDIC and NCUA, and information security groups on topics including compliance, auditing and network security, and hackers and forensic investigation.

Dr. Amit Sinha, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer specializes in wireless communications and network security. Prior to joining AirDefense, he served as Vice President and Chief Technologist at Engim, a company he co-founded. At Engim he designed 802.11 modems and was responsible for the core technology portfolio of the company. Prior to Engim, he held various research positions at MIT, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Intel Corporation and Texas Instruments. Amit is an accomplished researcher with more than 25 refereed papers published in technical journals and conferences. In addition, he is a contributing author to three published books. He is also the author of 15 patents dealing with different inventions in 802.11 infrastructure and wireless security. Amit received his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal for graduating summa cum laude.