Alan & Mitchell's Podcast

Episode 39 of StillSecure, After all these years podcast has two special guests.  Well known security expert, Tom Bowers is joined by Faizel Lakhani, VP of Products and Marketing at Reconnex (their bios are below).  The 4 of us discuss Data Leak Prevention (DLP).  It is a great discussion and we hope you will learn something about DLP. The interview starts about 10 minutes into the podcast. In this weeks The Converging Minute, Mitchell discusses multi-function devices and how you can use them for just one purpose if you like. In This Week in Security we discuss: 1. The formation of the OpenSEA consortium 2. The recent vulnerability found by Symantec in the Microsoft BITS protocol 3. Snort 3.0 licensing and the GPL 4. Corporate blogging policies If you like the content of these shows or have any other comments or questions, please drop us a line at podcast@stillsecure.comThanks to ClickCaster for hosting our podcast. Tonights music is the usual, To the Summit by Jon Schmidt. You can hear more from Jon at  http://www.jonschmidt.com.  Music transitions between segments are by our own Mitchell Ashley!Guest Bios:Tom Bowers - President of Philadelphia InfraGard. Tom Bowers, who holds the CISSP, PMP and Certified Ethical Hacker certifications, is a well-known expert on the topics of data leakage prevention, global enterprise information security architecture and ethical hacking. He is also the president of the Philadelphia chapter of Infragard, the second largest chapter in the country with more than 600 members. Additionally, Bowers leads the independent think tank and industry analyst group *Security Constructs, LLC*. His areas of expertise include aligning business needs with security architecture, risk assessment and project management on a global scale. Bowers is a technical editor of Information Security magazine and a regular speaker at events like Information Security Decisions. Faizel Lakhani - Vice President of Products and Marketing Prior to joining Reconnex, Lakhani was Vice President of Marketing at ConSentry Networks, a leading LAN security company, responsible for the go to market plan as well as overall product strategy and direction. Prior to ConSentry, Lakhani was Vice President of Marketing at Caspian Networks, a flow-based routing company, where he was responsible for all aspects of marketing. Lakhani began his career at Nortel Networks holding a number of executive roles in marketing for new and emerging products.   Lakhani holds a Masters Degree In Engineering from Carelton University, an MBA from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University.