MITX / K&L Gates Series: How to Protect Your Company's Confidential Information, Know When its Been Taken and Recover It October 23, 2008

Do You Know Where Your Confidential Information Is?

This program will focus on best practices to safeguard information in the digital age, provide strategies on how to identify when information has been lost, and include tips on how to effectively and efficiently recover information before incurring significant damage.

Topics will include:

Preventing loss of confidential information

Preventing unauthorized access to information;
Securing your IP from departing employees; and
Best Practices in working with company inventors.
How do you know when information has been taken?

Use of software; and
Conducting security assessments.
How to retrieve lost or misappropriated confidential information:

Using investigators and forensic specialists; and
Enforcing restrictive covenants and nondisclosure agreements.

Panelists
Forensic specialists, as well as intellectual property and employment lawyers, will present real life examples and strategies to illustrate best practices, common pitfalls and tips on how to avoid falling victim to damaging losses of valuable assets.

Who should attend:
Anyone who is concerned about the protection of company confidential information including business founders and owners, developers of protectable information, operations managers, information technology specialists, human resource professionals and members of internal legal departments.

Official Website: http://www.mitx.org/events/1554.cfm