Sophos CEO, Raymond James Financial CISO and Forrester Research VP Participate in RSA 2010 Panel Discussion, How CISOs Best Adapt to Major Shifts in IT

Sophos Security Experts in the Spotlight at RSA Conference 2010

BOSTON and SAN FRANCISCO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--IT security and data protection firm Sophos (RSA 2010 Gold Sponsor and exhibitor – booth # 1817) announced today that CEO Steve Munford and Sophos customer Raymond James Financial Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer Samuele Ghelfi will participate in a panel discussion titled “Change is Gonna Come: How CISOs Best Adapt to Major Shifts in IT” at the RSA Conference 2010, held March 1-5 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The session will be moderated by Jonathan Penn, vice president of research at Forrester Research. The panel is scheduled for Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 9:10 a.m. PT.

“Change is Gonna Come: How CISOs Best Adapt to Major Shifts in IT”

Sophos Executive and Security Experts Take the Stage at RSA 2010
Session Title:	“Change is Gonna Come: How CISOs Best Adapt to Major Shifts in IT”
Speakers:
	-- Steve Munford, CEO, Sophos
	-- Samuele Ghelfi, CISO, Raymond James Financial
	-- Jonathan Penn, VP of Research, Forrester Research
When:	Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 9:10 a.m. PT
Where:	Green Room 123
Session Code:	SPO1-302

Session Description: Regardless of company size, customers face the same storm of IT consumerization, data loss, breaches, regulations and business complexity. While enterprise IT teams learn to adapt to these changes, so must the security vendors they count on most. This panel discussion will analyze latest business demands that create new challenges for IT teams, and how to leverage technology and vendor partnerships so that they can get the biggest bang for their buck.

Session Title:	“Web 2 Woe: Cybercrime on Social Networks”
Speaker:	Graham Cluley, Senior Security Consultant, Sophos (RSA Top-Rated Speaker)
When:	Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. PT
Where:	Blue Room 102
Session Code:	HT1-204

Session Description: Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are increasingly the target for financially-motivated hackers as more cybercriminals put the hundreds of millions of captive users in their sights. Their intention? To infect computers, spread spam, seize profiles and commit identity theft. This session will cover how attacks have continued to evolve, how social networking sites are trying to defend against exploitation and what companies and people can do to better defend themselves.

Session Title:	“'Anti-Virus Is Dead!’ – Demonstration and Presentation	”
Speaker:	Paul Ducklin, Head of Technology, Asia Pacific Sophos
When:	Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. PT
Where:	Orange Room 301
Session Code:	END-201

Session Description: Anti-virus is dead – industry analysts say so. They have a point, since it is inherently reactive, and doomed by undecidability. Yet anti-virus is clearly alive, since it is still effective against the latest threats. Using a live demo, disassembling and debugging real malware, this session will reveal the history of the arms race between malware creators and defenders, and explain how security problems, which are incomputable in theory, can nevertheless be effectively solved.

About Sophos

More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, Web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs – a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.

Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.