Data Security and Unauthorized Access Control for Computers

About the speaker:

John Haggard has over 13 years experience in the data security industry and has specialized in user authentication technologies ranging from biometric recognition to a variety of complex encryption schemes, including DES, RSA, and Kerberos. He serves as President and Chief Operating Officer for VASCO Data Security, Inc. Prior to joining VDSI, Mr. Haggard was Assistant Vice President of Research and Development and Technical Owner for Computer Associates' Security control and Audit (SCA) Division. The SCA product line includes industry leading mainframe products CA-ACF2, CA-TOP SECRET, CA-Examine, and CA-PANAUDIT. Prior to Computer Associates, Mr. Haggard was with SKK, Inc. during the time that SKK developed ACF2 and grew to be the world leader in IBM mainframe data security products.


VASCO Corp., headquartered in Lombard, IL, and its foreign and domestic subsidiaries offer information security technologies, consulting and training that enable companies to achieve corporate initiatives and improve profitability. Since initiating its strategy in 1986, VASCO, through strategic acquisitions and internal growth, has become a leader in computer security authentication devices, with over 1.5 million units shipped to date.


The Company's computer security subsidiaries include VASCO Data Security, Inc., headquartered in Lombard, as well as Lintel SECURITY and Digipass s.a., both of Brussels, Belgium. VASCO's patented and proprietary hardware and software security products provide computer security, Extended User Authentication (EUA) and RSA/DES encryption for financial institutions, industry and government.


Additional information is available on the World Wide Web at www.vasco.com.

About data security:

John will share a brief company overview as a backdrop to a data security and access control.
He will then share:
1. some of the challenges facing organizations.
2. define the differences between Identification, Authorization, and Authentication.
3. breakdown the different paradigms used in authentication with strengths, weaknesses, products, and applications for each.
4. demonstrate how to access a secure web server over the Internet with high level authentication.
5. and have a very open question and answer session.
You can expect that this will be a very interesting, interactive meeting where you will walk away with tangible ideas to consider and apply. A general outline of his discussion follows.

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