Configuresoft CTO Highlights Security and Compliance Threats within Virtual Environments at ISACA e-Symposium

Business Wire, Nov 19, 2007

Dr. Dennis Moreau Provides Guidelines for Avoiding Virtual Compliance Security Issues at ISACA's Competencies for Compliance and Data Protection Event

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Configuresoft, an innovator in systems management technology and the creator of enterprise Configuration Intelligence[TM], today announced that CTO Dennis Moreau, Ph.D., will be presenting a session titled "Virtualization and Security Configuration Policy Compliance" at the ISACA e-Symposium on Tuesday, November 27, broadcast live and online at http://www.isaca.e-symposium.com/event.php.> Virtualization helps organizations progress to flexible and lower cost enterprise computing. But with those benefits come serious complications for security and compliance efforts. Dr. Moreau will provide insight into the new compliance issues introduced by the deployment of virtualization technologies, and discuss technical and methodological approaches for effectively sustaining compliance in these environments. Dr. Moreau will also present the balance between the benefits of virtualization with the impact it has on the IT infrastructure, security and compliance aspects of the business.

WHO: Dennis Moreau, Ph.D., Configuresoft founder & CTO

WHAT: Virtualization and Security Configuration Policy Compliance

WHEN: Tuesday, November 27, 2007

8:00 - 8:50 am PST

WHERE: http://www.isaca.e-symposium.com/event.php

About Dennis Moreau, Ph.D.

As a Founder and the Chief Technology Officer for Configuresoft, Dennis Moreau specializes in the application of leading edge technologies to the solution of complex problems in the Information Technology management domain. His primary focus is in developing enterprise scale solutions to improve IT efficiency and effectiveness for systems management, security compliance and configuration optimization. He works actively with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and MITRE on the development of security configuration policy compliance standards, serving on MITRE's OVAL Advisory Board. Dr. Moreau holds a doctorate in Computer Science and speaks regularly at IT management and security conferences worldwide.

About Configuresoft

Configuresoft is an innovator in systems management technology, delivering the enterprise Configuration Intelligence[TM] to effectively and efficiently manage today's heterogeneous computing infrastructures. Spanning both security and operations, the Company's configuration management, compliance and remediation products are used by 13 of the world's 25 largest companies to keep their critical systems properly configured, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, GLBA, HIPAA and DISA, and industry standards such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS and Microsoft Security Hardening Guides. To contact Configuresoft, please call (888) U-CONFIG or visit www.configuresoft.com.