Bit9 Chief Strategist Invited to Speak on Application Whitelisting at US CERT GFIRST

Bit9 Chief Strategist Invited to Speak on Application Whitelisting at US CERT
GFIRST
BOSTON, June 6 /PRNewswire/ --

WHO: Tom Murphy, Chief Strategist, Bit9
WHAT: US CERT GFIRST
WHEN: June 6, 2008; 11:30am-12:15pm
WHERE: Caribe Royal Orlando
8101 World Center Drive
Orlando, FL 32821
TOPIC: Application Whitelisting: Information Assurance and Desktop
Lockdown

Bit9, the pioneer in enterprise application whitelisting, is pleased to be
a part of the fourth annual US CERT GFIRST -- Government Forum of Incident
Response and Security Teams -- conference.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080204/BIT9LOGO )
The focus of the 4th Annual GFIRST National Conference is to identify and
improve the coordination and collaboration among cyber responders in the
public and private sector as well as their role supporting the law enforcement
and physical emergency response community. The security of communications and
IT systems and response and recovery of these essential systems in a crisis is
greatly enhanced by interaction between various government and private sector
security teams. The conference is an opportunity for public and private sector
to foster increased collaboration around IT security efforts.
Tom Murphy has been invited to present within the incident response track.
Tom will be talking about the security benefits of enterprise application
whitelisting, including preventing data loss, identifying malicious software
and device control, including preventing the transmission of data onto
unauthorized peripheral devices like thumb drives or music players.
Whitelisting applications can also allow administrators to lockdown desktops
in response to breaches or suspicious activity.
Tom leads Bit9's worldwide strategy around application control and desktop
security. Murphy comes from Relicore, recently acquired by Symantec, where he
was Vice President of Marketing.
ABOUT Bit9, Inc.
Bit9 is the pioneer and leader in enterprise application whitelisting. The
company's patented solutions ensure only trusted and authorized applications
are allowed to run, eliminating the risk caused by malicious, illegal and
non- authorized software.
Unlike traditional, reactive controls that try to scan and prevent the
never-ending list of unauthorized software, Bit9 leverages the Bit9 Global
Software Registry(TM) -- the world's largest database of software intelligence
-- to ensure only authorized applications can run delivering the highest
levels of desktop security, compliance, and manageability.
Bit9 customers include companies in a wide variety of industries, such as
retail, financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, telecommunications, as
well as government agencies. Founded in 2002, Bit9 is a privately held and
based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, visit
http://www.bit9.com or call 617.393.7400.
Media Contact
Kate Munro
Director of Marketing, Bit9, Inc.
617.393.7421
kmunro@bit9.com

SOURCE Bit9, Inc.

Kate Munro of Bit9, Inc., +1-617-393-7421, kmunro@bit9.com