Palisade Systems Dr. Guy Helmer to speak at CERT Conference

Palisade Systems, a leading provider of network management and security solutions, announced today that Dr. Guy Helmer, its Principal Systems Architect, will be a featured speaker at the NebraskaCERT Conference 2004. Helmer will speak on the importance of organizations having a multi-layered network defense in the face of increased software and operating system vulnerabilities.

AMES, IA (PRWEB) August 2, 2004 -- Palisade Systems, a leading provider of network management and security solutions, announced today that Dr. Guy Helmer, its Principal Systems Architect, will be a featured speaker at the NebraskaCERT Conference 2004. The conference provides chief information officers, security executives, and network administrators with practical solutions for securing networks against intrusions. Helmer will speak on the importance of organizations having a multi-layered network defense in the face of increased software and operating system vulnerabilities. He will also address how to best create a multi-layered internal defense.

With the variety of software vulnerabilities and exploits being exposed on a daily basis, it is not enough to rely solely on perimeter security to guard against attacks by hackers," said Helmer. For example, organizations with users who access the network from the outside or using laptops have a whole new set of security risks that perimeter security doesnt adequately address. Network administrators can greatly reduce the risk of being open to new attacks by using multiple network security tools that operate internally at both the network and application levels."

Seminar title: Network Security in a Patched Environment

Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2004

Time: 12:45 -- 1:45 p.m. CT

Location: The Peter Kiewit Institute, Scott Conference Center, Omaha, NE

The 6th Annual NebraskaCERT Conference is sponsored by NebraskaCERT in conjunction with the CERT Coordination Center, one of the nations leading reporting centers for Internet security problems. The center is part of the Networked System Survivability Program located at the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University. For more information on the conference, please visit: www.certconf.org.

About Palisade Systems, Inc. Palisade Systems, Inc., founded in 1996, helps organizations manage and protect critical network assets against a variety of threats from benign utilization issues to malicious attacks. The companys appliances offer easy-to-implement, proactive approaches to controlling internal network access (FireBlock), Internet filtering (ScreenDoor), managing network applications (PacketHound), and providing honeypot-style intrusion detection (SmokeDetector). First introduced in 2000, PacketHound has since been recognized with the R&D 100 Award and the eSchool News Readers Choice Award. FireBlock received the R&D 100 Award in 2003. Palisades products are used in hundreds of businesses, schools, and universities throughout the world. For more information, please visit www.palisadesys.com or contact Palisades sales department at 1.888.824.0720.

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