Federal Computer Week, in partnership with Adobe, invites you to an executive breakfast “Digital Security in Today’s Enterprise – How Authentication is the Key to Agency Information Assurance,” to be held October 22, 2009 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. This educational breakfast for government professionals will bring together senior government officials, technology and security leaders, and industry executives to discuss security and the role of authentication in delivering information assurance for the federal government.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: |
Join us for the opening keynote presentation by Reynold Schweickhardt, Chief Technology
Officer at the Government Printing Office (GPO) followed by
a panel discussion with government and industry professionals.
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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: |
Agency Best Practices to Document Authentication, Reducing Fraud and Waste and Providing Transparency and Information Assurance:
Alec Chalmers (Moderator)
National Government Solutions District Manager, Adobe Systems
Dr. Richard Etter
CIO, IA/CIP Team Lead, Dept. of Navy
John Harris
Product Manager, Electronic Signatures & Security Alliances, Business Productivity, Adobe Systems
Michael Sorrento
Deputy Area Director/Project Manager, Office of Disaster Assistance, US Small Business Administration |
With President Obama’s coming appointment of a national cyber security chief, information security has emerged as a major priority in the federal government. Issues of privacy and fear of data-breaches have so far colored the debate, turning many agencies and departments towards traditional defensive measures – such as increased use of firewalls – to keep intruders from accessing sensitive information. However, as document security has become the watchword of government vigilance, there has been a steadily growing recognition that document authentication is at least as important.
In the digital age, where information can be quickly copied or modified, it becomes increasingly necessary to verify the authenticity of critical information. Security no longer ends at keeping sensitive information secure, but extends to ensuring to those whose lives depend on it that the information is authentic and has not been tampered with. The recent debate over digital health records illustrates the point. Digital records enable multiple copies of a document to exist, raising issues of privacy—but even more critically—issues of authenticity: patients and doctors must have the means to authenticate real documents from false or misplaced files.
Register now. The seminar is FREE but seating is limited.
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