Network and Physical Security in the Life Sciences Industry could be a Matter of Life or Death

Pamela Campbell of BusinessEdge Solutions to talk about network and physical security issues in the Life Sciences industry at INTERPHEX2006.

(PRWEB) March 21, 2006 -- Did a guard check access to your company campus today? Were card keys required to enter your offices, labs, or manufacturing facility? Did someone in your company check the audit trail on the firewall? Was your email monitored for spam and inappropriate use or viruses?

During INTERPHEX2006 Senior Consultant Pamela Campbell of BusinessEdge Solutions Inc. will present “Did Anyone Check the Security of Your Manufacturing Computer Systems Today?” on Thursday, March 23rd at 11:30 a.m. The conference takes place in New York City at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. BusinessEdge Solutions is an industry-focused business and technology-consulting firm offering strategy, process optimization and solution integration to clients in the Life Sciences industry.

Answering yes to a few of the above questions is not enough. All of these actions are a reaction to a perceived potential threat to a physical facility or a computer system with an interface to the Internet. People have been exposed via the news to stories of animal rights groups destroying laboratories and of hackers attacking corporate computer systems. What most have not heard of are the systems and products damaged by either internal or external computer attacks on manufacturing systems.

News headlines over the last year have carried stories of employees, consultants, and offshore contractors carrying off data from corporate systems. Victims of such crimes include financial institutions, retailers, human resource departments, and even the U.S. defense department. The result has been identity theft and embarrassment for the firm loosing the data. What the thefts have not resulted in is a product recall or injury to a consumer. This pattern may not last. Are pharmaceutical companies doing enough to protect their manufacturing systems? Ms. Campbell’s presentation will talk about the risks and threats that life science companies face concerning physical and network security systems.

About BusinessEdge:
BusinessEdge Solutions Inc. drives competitive advantage for its clients by leveraging its vertical domain thought leadership and asset-leveraged consulting enabled by pre-engineered business and technology solution frameworks to reduce the time, cost and risk of delivering breakthrough results. BusinessEdge is distinctive among consulting firms in that its multidisciplinary consultants have an average of 15 years of industry-specific experience and expertise. This strong industry knowledge and technology know-how is at the core of the company’s unwavering commitment to create vision for its clients – and is the driver behind its delivery of high-impact business solutions. See www.businessedge.com for a more detailed view of the firm’s expertise and a complete listing of all its capabilities and solutions.

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