Configuresoft Executive to Participate on Industry Expert Panel on Patch Management at SecureWorld/Philadelphia

Market Wire, April, 2005

System administrators race to apply security patches before hackers can take advantage of newly discovered vulnerabilities. Due to the critical nature of these patches, they have to be applied quickly and securely. Which criteria should you look for? What other methods should you look at? At what cost? George Gerchow, systems engineer manager at Configuresoft, will participate on an Industry Expert Panel at SecureWorld/Philadelphia to answer these and other questions about how large enterprises can move beyond patch management to reduce vulnerabilities, and better ensure overall security, configuration and compliance initiatives.

Spurred by IT security and compliance concerns, both the discipline and technology of patch management have evolved rapidly. Today, effective patch management processes and products can facilitate and partially automate efforts to push the latest patches, hot fixes and service packs throughout the enterprise IT infrastructure. However, in the face of complex computing environments and pervasive technological change, patch management fails to address several key considerations. To effectively secure the IT environment, and enable vulnerability assessment and remediation, patch management must be coordinated with other disciplines and technologies. Enterprise configuration management provides one missing piece to the IT security puzzle.

Who:     George Gerchow, CCNA, MCP, SCP,
         systems engineer manager, Configuresoft
What:    "Patch Management Industry Expert Panel"
When:    Wednesday, April 20, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
Where:   SecureWorld Expo/Philadelphia 2005

About George Gerchow, CCNA, MCP, SCP, systems engineer manager

George Gerchow joined Configuresoft in 2004. He brings more than 12 years of IT and systems experience in Education, Finance and Government environments. Mr. Gerchow has managed staff in large enterprises and has deployed systems management tools for some of the world's largest corporate and government networks. His extensive experience with Cisco and Microsoft products includes infrastructure design, security, MS Clustering, Windows Domain Architecture and implementations.

Mr. Gerchow has presented at RSA on a variety of topics in configuration management, compliance and patch management; SecureWorld Industry Expert Panel, VoIP user groups and Credit Union specific forums. He also conducts weekly customer Webinars at Configuresoft around the Company's products and their benefits. Mr. Gerchow holds a BS degree in Networking from Regis University.

About Configuresoft

Configuresoft is the recognized leader in highly scalable enterprise policy compliance, configuration management, and security patch management technology, serving eight of the "Global 25" corporations. Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the company's products offer large-scale computing environments the ability to collect and analyze the most detailed information available about system application settings, events and operational trends, to a centralized point of management and control. Configuresoft provides the tools to keep mission-critical systems properly configured, while ensuring compliance with stringent regulatory mandates, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA and FISMA, operational standards and evolving process methodologies. To contact Configuresoft, call 719.447.4600, visit us on the Web at www.configuresoft.com or write to info@configuresoft.com.

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