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companies for this event. Click on the sponsor logo
to find out more about each event sponsor.
Diamond Sponsor
Nokia
is the world leader in mobility, driving the
transformation and growth of the converging
Internet and communications industries. Nokia
makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides
people with experiences in music, navigation,
video, television, imaging, games and business
mobility through these devices. Nokia also
provides equipment, solutions and services
for communications networks.
Novell is a world leader in enterprise
infrastructure software. We are the only
company that delivers an open source platform
with integrated systems management, security,
identity, and access management solutions.
We also offer professional services to support
our customers from the desktop to the data
center. With these technologies and services,
customers can easily manage both our platform
and the other heterogeneous components of
their IT infrastructures.
Customers can deploy Novell technologies
directly—or through our global network
of partners—and be free to focus on
the innovation and high-quality service
that drive their businesses forward. Novell—This
is Your Open Enterprise™.
PatchLink(r) is the global leader for security
patch and vulnerability management solutions,
delivering comprehensive, multi-platform
assessment and remediation for continuous
protection across the enterprise. Offering
the most comprehensive platform and application
support, PatchLink maintains the largest
tested and most up-to-date security patch
repository, enabling organisations to accurately
assess and remediate vulnerabilities based
on established industry best practices.
Currently protecting thousands of commercial
and government organisations and millions
of PCs and servers worldwide, PatchLink
effectively eliminates vulnerability risks
and enforces security and compliance policies
while reducing overall IT costs. PatchLink
is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona
and was founded in 1991 by Sean Moshir.
Citrix
Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global
leader and the most trusted name in application
delivery infrastructure. More than 180,000
organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to
deliver any application to users anywhere
with the best performance, highest security
and lowest cost. Citrix customers include
100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98%
of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds
of thousands of small businesses and prosumers.
Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and
alliance partners in more than 100 countries.
Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion.
Sophos
is a world leader in IT security and control.
We offer complete protection and control to
business, education and government organizations
- defending against known and unknown malware,
spyware, intrusions, unwanted applications,
spam, and policy abuse, and providing comprehensive
network access control (NAC). Our reliably
engineered, easy-to-operate products protect
over 100 million users in more than 150 countries.
With over 20 years' experience and a global
network of threat analysis centers, the company
responds rapidly to emerging threats and achieves
the highest levels of customer satisfaction
in the industry. Sophos is a global company
with headquarters in Boston, MA., and Oxford,
UK.
As a trusted security expert, Entrust,
Inc. provides layered security solutions
that help provide confidence for customers,
clients, vendors and organizations.
Our solutions help enable enterprises to
secure channels of communication, allow
information-sharing among stakeholders,
and help enable compliance with information
security and government regulations. More
than 1,550 customers in 60 different countries
across the globe use Entrust's world-class
solutions.
A publicly traded Internet security company,
Entrust is an industry leader that promotes
the use of layered security strategies to
increase efficiency, productivity and returns
on investments. We offer a range of solutions
that include multifactor authentication,
fraud detection, secure messaging, disk
security and public key infrastructure.
ArcSight is a leading provider of security
and compliance management software solutions
that intelligently mitigate business risk
for enterprises, MSSPs and government agencies.
ArcSight's ESM platform delivers a centralized,
real-time view of disparate events across
geographically dispersed and heterogeneous
business and technology infrastructures.
ArcSight also provides complementary software
that delivers pre-packaged solutions tailored
to specific security and compliance initiatives,
as well as appliances that streamline threat
response, event log archiving and network
configuration. This real-time and historic
view of business risk as it applies to external
security, insider threats and compliance
breaches provides customers with the intelligence
required to effectively protect their business.
