Configuresoft CTO Featured Speaker at IX CERIAS 2008 Information Security Symposium

Dr. Dennis Moreau to Address Challenges of Securing Virtualization Environments
IX CERIAS 2008 Information Security Symposium

Configuresoft, the world’s leading enterprise server configuration management company, today announced that CTO Dennis Moreau, Ph.D., will join other industry experts for the panel discussion titled, “Virtually Secure or Securely Virtual?” at the IX CERIAS 2008 Information Security Symposium on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

Moreau, a respected voice on virtualization security, will be joined on the panel by Purdue University’s Dongyan Xu and ISS’s Kevin Skapinetz. The panel will address virtualization security issues, their impact on risk and threat models and strategies for audit and security assessment in virtualized environments.

WHO: Dennis Moreau, Ph.D., Configuresoft Founder & CTO

WHAT: Virtually Secure or Securely Virtual?

WHEN: Tuesday, March 18, 2008

9:45-11:00 a.m.

WHERE: Room LWSN 1142

Lawson Computer Science Building

Purdue University

656 Oval Drive

West Lafayette, Ind. 47907-2086

Security and virtualization challenges are also outlined in original podcasts from Configuresoft at: http://www.configuresoft.com/News/podcasts.aspx. Configuresoft is also sponsoring a Webinar on virtualization security on Thursday, March 20, 2008, 11:00 a.m. EST (9:00 a.m. MST). To register please visit: http://www.configuresoft.com/webinar_registration_web.aspx.

About Dennis Moreau, Ph.D.

As a Founder and the Chief Technology Officer for Configuresoft, Dennis Moreau specializes in the application of leading edge technologies to the solution of complex problems in the Information Technology management domain. His primary focus is in developing enterprise scale solutions to improve IT efficiency and effectiveness for systems management, security compliance and configuration optimization. He works actively with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and MITRE on the development of security configuration policy compliance standards, serving on MITRE’s OVAL Advisory Board. Dr. Moreau holds a doctorate in Computer Science and speaks regularly at IT management and security conferences worldwide.

About Configuresoft

Configuresoft, the world’s leading enterprise server configuration management provider, delivers the Configuration Intelligence® that brings automation and intelligence to IT operations. Hundreds of organizations, including 13 of the world’s 25 largest companies, rely on Configuresoft to effectively and efficiently manage the complexity of today’s physical and virtualized IT environments. Configuresoft’s team of security and policy experts ensure continuous compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley and industry standards such as PCI DSS and Microsoft and VMware Hardening Guides. To contact Configuresoft, please call (888) U-CONFIG or visit http://www.configuresoft.com
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