PATCA Consultants Mtg - Protect Your Business from IT Nightmares October 11, 2007

Protect Your Consulting Business from IT Security Nightmares

Increasingly security - or concern about the lack of it - is touching all our lives. But as consultants whose success is critically dependent on our reputation and integrity, we have a greater responsibility to protect our clients' data and intellectual property.

What happens if we fail to do this? Even a mere rumor about a security breach can cause professional consultants to lose clients, and a full-blown security breakdown can result in time-consuming and expensive litigation.

Imagine the following real-life security nightmares:

* A product manufacturing consultant found that the costs of his informal processes for securing client data were skyrocketing. At the same time, his confidence in the end result was dropping and his doubts were beginning to become evident to his clients.
* During an audit, it was discovered that a law office was using misconfigured servers that could easily have resulted in the loss of client case records. Worse yet, their wireless network was unsecured and unauthorized neighbors had open access.
* A small medical office found their systems were not compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy standards, and that their patients' confidential medical information was not securely protected.

At PATCA's October dinner meeting, Ed Correia, the founder and CEO of Sagacent Technologies, will talk about some of our most important concerns, such as data loss, laptop theft, and mobile computing issues.

You will learn:
* What are the most common security threats consultants face in their practices?
* What can happen if your data security is not planned and implemented correctly?
* What steps can you take to improve the security of your - and your clients' - intellectual property?

$30-members; $35-non-members; $27-guests.

Official Website: http://www.PATCA.org