Sysnet to present at the Vendorcom PCI & Payment Security Retailer Breakfast Briefing

Sysnet Global Solutions, a leading worldwide provider of information security and assurance services, will present at the Vendorcom PCI & Payment Security Retailer Breakfast Briefing on March 1st 2011. The event, which takes place in London, will address the information security issues faced by merchants.

The briefing will take the form of short presentations that will provide attendees with up-to-date information that will help improve the security of payment data and move PCI to a business as usual process.

“The data forensics team at Sysnet are very excited to be part of the Vendorcom breakfast briefings” said Nick Prescott, Senior Consultant – Data Forensics, at Sysnet Global Solutions, “Cyber warfare is a relatively new and growing phenomenon and no more so than within the realms of cardholder data. We are passionate about educating, preventing and, when an unfortunate event happens, responding to incidents and ensuring that all businesses affected from a breach emerge from an incident with a renewed confidence in security.”

The presentations will be followed by a Questions & Answers session, during which the speakers will be joined by Nick Heape of Visa Europe and Phil Jones of Barclaycard.

The briefing will take place at the Herschel Room, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT and will commence at 8.00am and will conclude at 10.30am.

To register a place at this briefing, please go to the following link: www.vendorcom.com/register.php?event_id=78

PCI & Payment Security Retailer Breakfast Briefing – Tuesday 1st March, London

and supported by BARCLAYCARD & VISA EUROPE

Sysnet Global Solutions is proud to be supporting – and speaking at – the Vendorcom PCI & Payment Security Retailer Breakfast Briefing on March 1st and we’d be delighted if you could join us.

This briefing will take the form of short, punchy, focused presentations that will provide you with up to date, accurate information that will help you improve the security of your payment data, move PCI to a business as usual process and ensure that you keep both the business and the customer happy; all this – and not a sales pitch in sight!!

In this briefing, with the help of both ourselves and Tripwire, Vendorcom will be looking at the business impact of PCI & Payment Security:

• What is the cost of compliance (versus non compliance)?
• How do you work with your suppliers to minimise the risk of a security breach?
• If you are breached, what steps can you take to minimise the impact both directly on your customer and on your brand?

Following these presentations, there will also be a Q&A panel, where the speakers will be joined by Nick Heape of Visa Europe and Phil Jones of Barclaycard. This is the opportunity to ask ourselves and the rest of the expert panel your unanswered PCI & Payment Security questions. There will also be time after the session to stay on, ask any additional questions that may not have been answered in the group session – and to network with your peers, the panellists and the Vendorcom team.

It may not always feel like it, but as an industry we are here to help – please take advantage of us!!

Please Note: This briefing is FREE to attend

Agenda:

0800 - 0830 Registration, Breakfast & Networking

0830 - 0840 Welcome & Introduction
Paul Rodgers, Chairman – Vendorcom

0840 - 0905 The True Cost of Compliance

Tripwire have recently completed research into the True Cost of Compliance to determine the full costs associated with an organisation’s compliance efforts. This presentation will highlight the recently released benchmark study of multinational organisations providing a clear understanding of the differences between compliance and non-compliance costs incurred when complying with laws, regulations and policies.
Mike Shanahan, Account Director - Tripwire

0905 – 0930 The Security Breach: Guarding Against and Reacting To!

The PCI DSS is designed to help us guard our business against security breaches – that’s all well and good, but how do we work better with suppliers to ensure that they’re working to reduce our risk as well? And if the worst happens and we are breached, what is the best course of action? In essence, this session will encourage you to prepare for a breach, know how to limit your exposure to the risk of a breach and understand what best to do in the event of an account data compromise.
Nick Prescot, Senior Consultant, Forensics – Sysnet Global Solutions

0930 – 1000 Q&A Panel

What do you really want to know? What is the most burning question you have about PCI & Payment Security that remains unanswered? Now is your chance to ask it!!
Mike Shanahan (Tripwire), Nick Prescot (Sysnet), Nick Heape (Visa Europe), Phil Jones (Barclaycard), Paul Rodgers (Vendorcom)

1000 – 1030 Coffee & Networking

Your time away from the business is precious, we recognise that, and that’s why we’ve kept this session short and snappy! However, we also know that there’s never enough time to answer everybody’s questions in an open session – and indeed there may well be questions that you don’t want to ask in an open session.

So, the Vendorcom team, our speakers and our panel will all be staying on for coffee after the session so that, if you want to, you can spend an extra few minutes/half an hour, asking questions and taking the opportunity to share experiences with your peers – who knows what additional nuggets of information you could pick up that might just help your business!

Date: Tuesday 1st March 2011

Time: 0800 (for a prompt 0830 start) – 1000 (with opportunity to stay on through to 1030 to ask additional questions/network)

Venue: Herschel Room, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT

Map: Click here
Nearest Underground Station: Regents Park (Bakerloo Line), Great Portland Street (Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan Lines)

Cost: This event is FREE to attend

Registration: To confirm your place at this event: Register Here

We hope that you will be able to join us, Vendorcom and Tripwire on 1st March.

Sysnet Global Solutions announces appointment of new Regional Manager for North America

Sysnet Global Solutions, a leading worldwide provider of information security and assurance services, today announced the appointment of Bill Hodge as Regional Manager for North America with immediate effect. Bill will be based in Knoxville, Tennessee.

In this role, Bill will oversee Sysnet’s North American based business activities with an emphasis on new business development and client relationship management.

“We are very pleased to welcome Bill to the company” said Tom Moynagh, Managing Director at Sysnet, “Bill has considerable experience in the Information Security industry having provided consultancy, audit and risk assessment services to businesses operating in a wide variety of industries. We look forward to working with Bill and to the further development of our US based business.

“I am delighted that Sysnet have identified North America as a key region for business growth.” said Bill Hodge, Regional Manager for North America “This is a critical time for many organizations as they struggle to both maintain regulatory compliance and protect their businesses whilst also adhering to strict budget controls. I am confident that Sysnet can provide the best value services to assist such organisations in meeting all of these requirements.”

Bill graduated from East Tennessee State University with Bachelor and Masters Degrees after serving in the United State Marine Corps. He also holds AAS in Computer Science from the Pellissippi State Technical Community College, and has earned the CISA and CISSP certifications.

Further key personnel appointments for the North American region are expected in the near future.