Do you know what makes an effective legal hold? Do you even know what a legal hold is? Attend this webinar by leading national expert Brad Harris to learn what your company needs to do now to be ready for its next legal hold.

When the possibility of litigation or regulatory investigation arises, a legal hold is the first step a company must take as part of a duty to preserve potentially-relevant data. A legal hold is a notification directing employees to save pertinent information and data. Do it right and it’s a smooth process with little impact on your business. Do it wrong and it can severely compromise your case. No matter the size of your company, legal holds are a necessary reality.

2010 has been a watershed year for cases involving legal holds with the Courts have been issuing monetary sanctions and declarations of “gross negligence” in numerous cases. This webcast will review recent legal hold cases starting with January’s Pension Committee v. Banc of America Securities, Rimkus v. Cammarata, Crown Castle v. Nudd Corp., Jones v. Bremen HS and other recent cases that are driving the need for making legal holds a priority in any litigation.

This timely program will address:

• Recent directions and trends in case law
• Why legal holds are so important
• Best practices for recognizing and responding to a duty to preserve

Who Should Attend? This webinar will have be important for the following: C-level executives, general counsels and in-house legal staffs, law firms, compliance executives and managers, regulatory executives and managers, and IT executives and managers.

Presented by: - Elleanor Chin, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Elleanor Chin has extensive experience counseling clients on e-discovery and managing electronic discovery in complex litigation, including antitrust matters and class actions (more).

• Erica Couch, Senior Paralegal, Microsoft Corp. The primary focus of her work is managing discovery in civil litigation matters, including drafting and implementing document retention notices, as well as overseeing governmental inquiries to Microsoft Corporation (more).

• Brad Harris, Vice President of Legal Products, Zapproved, Inc., has more than 25 years of experience in the high technology and enterprise software sectors, including assisting Fortune 1000 companies enhance their e-discovery preparedness (more).

Event Details: When: Thursday, September 23, 2010 Where: Webinar Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PDT Cost: Free for TechAmerica Members, $35 Nonmembers

Register: (503) 624-5715 or at http://www.techamerica.org/legalholds

In today’s increasingly digital and connected world, every organization is constantly exposed to cyber and data security risks. The threat landscape is becoming more complex, and defense strategies that worked 10 years ago are no longer adequate. Join this expert panel as they share an innovative new approach to data security, explain the new risks that have emerged over the last decade, and offer practical advice for an effective defense strategy.

What Will You Learn?

• How the cyber threat landscape has change over the last 10 years and the implications for your defense strategy
• Fundamentals and best practices for a strong data security program
• Why it’s dangerous to think of cyber threats as "external”
• Why data security is no longer just an IT issue
• The new generation of data security tools
• Who the new players are in cyber crimes
• Developments in cyber risk insurance

Panelists:

• Charles Jennings, CEO, Swan Island Networks
• David Childers, CIPP, OCEG Fellow, CEO of Compli
• W. Wyatt Starnes, former VP and CTO, Cyber Harris Corporation
• Joe Shallenburger, Esq., General Counsel and Chief Patent Counsel, Cascade Microtech, Inc.

Moderator:

• JoAnn Kohl, Attorney at Lane Powell PC

Who Should Attend?

• Specialists in technology
• Compliance
• Risk management
• Legal
• IT

For more Information and to Register, Click here

This month's OWASP chapter meeting features Andrew Plato, President and CEO of Anitian.

Talk

Security leaders are under supreme pressure to build security programs that protect the business without disabling the business. However, the greatest impediment to success is not the technologies or regulations, but rather the people who must implement a security program. As a security leader, how do you communicate important risk, security, and compliance concepts to your team in a manner that inspires them to action? The answer is security vision. We live in world where people do not want more rules, they want meaning. The problem with so much of what we do in security is that it often seems annoying and unnecessary to users and executives. When people understand the mission and vision of the organization, they are naturally inclined to follow good practices. In this presentation, veteran security leader, as well as a CEO, Andrew Plato will discuss how to create, foster, and promote security vision to improve engagement with your co-workers. We will discuss communication, leadership, and motivational strategies that clarify and simplify security concepts to drive maximum employee engagement.

Speaker

Andrew Plato, CISSP, CISM, QSA

In 1995 while working at Microsoft, Andrew executed the first known instance of a SQL Injection attack against an early e-commerce site. When he demonstrated this attack to the developers, they dismissed the issue as irrelevant. This intrigued but also inspired Andrew to found Anitian with the goal of helping people understand the complexities of information security.
Today, Anitian is one of the most trusted names in security intelligence with clients worldwide. Anitian has a mission to Build Great Security Leaders. For the past 20 years, Andrew and Anitian have consistently executed on this mission with innovative, pragmatic answers to the most vexing security, compliance, and risk challenges. Andrew’s career encompasses nearly every dimension of information security. He has participated in thousands of security projects, written hundreds of articles, and advised hundreds of C-level executives. Being a both a business owner and security practitioner allows Andrew to bring a unique perspective to any discussion regarding security, technology, and governance. Andrew is well-known for delivering entertaining presentations that challenge conventional thinking and deliver practical answers to complex IT security challenges.

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