Special Events

Here are some of our key offerings that let you interact with our conference speakers, sponsors and exhibitors. All of which deliver great opportunities to network with your peers, compare success stories and lessons learned, ask questions, and gain insight from others who face the same challenges that you're up against.

A Thinking Information Security Professionals Guide to Career Management

While information security leadership positions are in high demand, the competition for these opportunities are increasing. This presentation will provide guidelines on how to maximize your current information security role and build the necessary skill sets to take your career toward your desired result. It will enable, you, to manage your own career, guide you in developing your "personal brand", and successfully compete in the quickly evolving CISO marketplace.

Are You Paid What You Are Worth?

Foote Partner's most recent survey of 78,000 IT workers reveals that pay for security practitioners is outperforming most other categories of IT jobs and, despite gloomy economic conditions in North America, premium pay for infosec certifications has been rising. Security pros are benefiting from growing consumer concerns, regulation, the popularity of mobile computing and hot technologies requiring protection, and trends in business risk management and IT employment. Will this change as the economy worsens? In this session, David Foote will discuss what all this means for the financial services industry and present his firm's 2008 infosec compensation benchmark data and projections drawn from Foote Partners' rigorous benchmark research involving 1,900 public and private sector employers in US and Canada, including:

  • Hot infosec jobs, skills, and certifications paying the highest dividends
  • Trends influencing infosec jobs and pay: the economy; consumer behavior; IT governance, risk management and compliance convergence; infosec outsourcing/managed services; evolving security organizational models; vendors and new technologies
  • Predications for what's ahead

**Attendee Bonus: Stay through the career night on June 18th and receive an IT Salary report from speaker David Foote!

Conference Giveaways

Along with receiving two full days of security insights, analysis and expert advice, you also have the chance to win two 42" plasma TVs throughout the conference!