Reconnex Hosts the Largest Compilation of Insider Threat Data and Experts During the Upcoming RSA Conference
Company Announces its Latest Insider Threat IndexT; Information Security Experts from Fortune 1000 Companies Participate in Exclusive Roundtable to Discuss How the Insider Threat is Impacting their Enterprises
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 13, 2006—Reconnex, the proven standard in Enterprise Risk Management solutions, announced today that it will issue the latest edition of its Insider Threat Index™ during the RSA Conference 2006, held in San Jose, California, February 13-17. Reconnex will also conduct a customer roundtable discussion and host a series of case-studies, featuring executives of key customers from healthcare, financial service, transportation, and technology organizations who will talk about the significance of the Insider Threat to their organization and their strategies for mitigating risks. The Insider Threat Index identifies the leading sources of risk impacting F1000 companies.
(Editors note: The RSA Conference 2006 is being held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, from February 13-17. Reconnex will be exhibiting at Booth # 243.)
The RSA Conference 2006 is the largest and most comprehensive event for information security professionals, attracting as exhibitors more than 275 of the top companies in the security industry. Reconnex will be involved in several activities at RSA 2006:
RSA Innovation Station – Reconnex has been chosen by RSA as a finalist in their Innovation Station competition, where Reconnex will demonstrate its award-winning iGuard product.
Insider Threat Customer Roundtable – Reconnex’s Insider Threat Customer Roundtable, to be held in the private meeting area of Reconnex’s booth on Wednesday, February 15, from 4:00-5:00 p.m., will feature Reconnex executives as well as key customers.
Dan Verton Presentations and Book Signing – In his continuing support of Reconnex’s ability to provide the only conclusive data on the insider threat, award-winning journalist Dan Verton, author of The Insider: A True Story, the definitive book on the insider threat, will be speaking and signing his book in the Reconnex booth on Tuesday, February 14 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
RSA has hand-selected Reconnex to demonstrate its iGuard content monitoring appliance – the only solution that allows companies to see and correlate risks originating from the insider threat with 100% visibility – at the annual Innovation Station, an event taking place Wednesday, February 15 from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in Room B1 (across from the Terrace Concourse), for privately held emerging companies with products or services designed to change the information security industry. Reconnex will present a demonstration pod within the Innovation Station pavilion to “pitch” their products to a panel of independent judges comprised of distinguished members of the venture capital and information security community. The judges will select the company they view as the most commercially viable and likely to succeed by honoring them with the “Innovation Station Award.”
Reconnex’s Insider Threat Customer Roundtable will feature Reconnex executives as well as key customers, including one of the world’s largest tax services providers, a F100 financial institution, Maimonides Medical Center, and WebEx. The executives will discuss the latest findings about the nature and extent of the insider threat, gleaned from the Reconnex’s February 2006 edition of its Insider Threat Index. The latest Insider Threat Index distills insights Reconnex has gained from analyzing more than 180 terabytes of blind statistics and 4 billion content objects collected from close to one hundred 48-Hour e-Risk Rapid Assessments™ performed during 2005. This is the largest aggregation of the data documenting the insider threat to date. The Insider Threat Index categorizes the top insider risks affecting today’s F1000 enterprises to create a national average of risk.
Author Dan Verton will be at the Reconnex booth from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 14, to sign copies of The Insider: A True Story. The book examines the psychology of insider data thieves and the changes in global competition—global rivalries centered on technology development and intellectual capital, outsourcing, and more—that are driving the growth of the insider threat. Verton also takes an in-depth look at specific examples of insider theft and inappropriate use of IT resources in financial services, technology, and healthcare companies as well as in government agencies. The book’s findings are backed up by data from Reconnex’s e-Risk Rapid Assessments.
About Reconnex
Reconnex is the leading provider of enterprise risk management (ERM) systems that reveal and address the insider threat to compliance, competitive advantage, corporate governance, and critical infrastructure. Reconnex enables Fortune 1000 companies, government organizations, and smaller healthcare and financial services companies to protect their brands, shareholder value and mission-critical operations by revealing hidden risks in the first 48 hours of deployment. Without exception, every deployment has enabled these organizations to quickly remediate the risks that could have damaged or destroyed their organization.
Call Reconnex today at 1-866-940-4590 or visit us on the web at www.reconnex.net.
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To make a reservation for the Insider Threat Roundtable or to schedule a briefing with Reconnex at RSA, please contact Robb Henshaw at 510-748-8200 X217 or rhenshaw@engagepr.com.
