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Virtualization is at the forefront of nearly every organization's IT environment. 21st century IT organizations are leveraging virtualization as a means to improve the efficiency and availability of IT resources - in effort to reduce fixed infrastructure costs. Virtualization is a highly-effective strategy and according to leading research firms, it is here to stay.

However, virtualization and the race to replace the physical data center brings new storage, security, and compliance challenges to IT and security professionals. These new challenges and risks, often compounded by the rapid adoption of cloud storage, are forcing technology organizations to adjust or implement new virtual storage and security strategies.

Join us as we explore the business goals that are driving the shift to virtual infrastructure and the resulting IT challenges. We'll analyze the virtual storage and cloud security conundrum, examine security risks, and offer best practices for implementing storage-friendly, compliant, and secure virtualization strategies that translate to quantified results.

The Ponemon Institute estimates the average cost of a data breach to be $7.2 million. Vulnerability to this sort of attack is magnified as organizations are required to exchange sensitive information across locations, with partners outside the enterprise and with varying security policies and data security formats.

Long heralded for their superior security, mainframes are not immune to such attacks. Sensitive enterprise data needs to be secured during transfer and at its origin and destination. Enterprises can't risk data being "in the clear" at any point of the transfer process.

From brand protection to corporate security policies to compliance mandates to business partner requirements, there are many compelling business reasons for encryption. However, encryption is not without its challenges – including licensing and overhead costs, resource consumption, and the inherent complexity of the encryption topic.

Join us as we explore data encryption on the mainframe – including cost take out scenarios, a review of business drivers, available technologies, example use cases, and best-practice recommendations for securing data on the mainframe and across the extended enterprise.

IBM® zEnterprise™ integrates leading IBM technologies to dramatically improve productivity of today’s multi-architecture data centers and tomorrow’s private clouds. This integration extends the gold standard of mainframe governance and service quality to workloads beyond the IBM System z®. Additionally, PKWARE secures the enterprise data center by extending security to all enterprise server platforms on IBM zEnterprise Hybrid Computing.

During this webinar, Theresa Tai, Senior Certified IT Specialist in the IBM Systems and Technology Group discusses how the zEnterprise integrated platform management framework improves IT operation efficiency, delivering cost effective IT infrastructures as a combined effect of utilizing an integrated and optimized heterogeneous zEnterprise data center environment.

Theresa presents six IBM use cases across a variety of industries including banking & finance, IT services, insurance, and air traffic control and presents IBM Client Center findings developed from studies of typical System z customers.

Every day you meet SLAs, control costs and protect your data, but have you ever wondered if you are really seeing the full potential of your data center? Could there be ways to gain data center efficiencies, increase productivity, lower costs and reduce vendors? In this program, see how other PKWARE customers get more out of their data center by:

• Reducing growing volumes of data
• Maximizing investments in hardware and software
• Satisfying new business requirements
• Securing data beyond compliance requirements
• Reducing expense
• Exceeding SLAs

Joe Sturonas, CTO at PKWARE shares his expertise and best practices in reducing costs and gaining efficiencies with System z® hardware. He explores efficient use of storage and bandwidth, file management, and data transfer between platforms, and using data-centric security to manage risk on the mainframe.

According to Gartner, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) ranks as the number one information security priority, but many IT Administrators struggle to filter through the white noise to understand the value of DLP. Learn four things that will help you understand the value of DLP:

• The business problem that DLP addresses
• How DLP identifies sensitive files
• How to get started with DLP in your organization
• How DLP can change end-user behavior in protecting sensitive files

Presenters Robert Hamilton, Sr. Product Manager for DLP at Symantec, and Paul Spicer, Director of Product Management at PKWARE present an educational look at how DLP solutions reduce the risk associated with a data breach and how automatic encryption remediation protects files identified by DLP inspections.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology can discover and help identify sensitive data that must be protected in order for organizations to meet compliance mandate requirements. Once files with sensitive data are found, effective remediation strategies need to be in place to secure access to the data. The challenge lies in understanding how to implement DLP technology to ensure compliance for your organization.

Steve Coplan, Senior Analyst with The 451 Group outlines how compliance requirements, and the shift in the threat environment to targeted content attacks, have increased the need for greater integration between DLP intelligence, file-level enforcement and automation of remediation.

Learn how data protection regulations are impacting agencies, ministries, and enterprises regardless of industry, and how FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption comes into play:

• Understand the driving forces behind adopting FIPS 140-2, including Safe Harbor provisions
• Explore how FIPS 140-2 relates to protecting PHI, PII and IP
• Identify obstacles to adoption
• Learn how to easily satisfy FIPS 140-2 requirements

Jeff Cherrington, PKWARE Vice President of Vertical Solutions, explores how the risk associated with data breaches is elevating the urgency of data protection compliance. He explains how certain cryptographic protocols and practices related to encryption are being integrated into existing and new operations; specifically FIPS 140-2.