Eliot Irons — Sensitive Data Awareness

While studies continue to show that a company’s biggest security threats are your own employees, the technological age has provided criminals both inside your company and on the other side of the earth, a new frontier of crime to exploit.

Your obligation to protect data now goes much further than documents which were once entrusted to a company safe or the vault at the local bank. From your wastebasket to your file server to the smallest memory card in your phone, information critical to your company, employees and customers privacy can be at risk. Only by educating your employees, suppliers, and partners, can you reduce the chances that your organization will become a victim of today’s data security threats and ensure that all staff can properly handle an incident should one occur.

Eliot Irons, an expert in the field of “Sensitive Data Awareness”, will be addressing the above privacy and security issues, in addition to, Breach Notice Laws, Notification Requirements and Controls at the Spring Management Clinic.

Irons is the Director of Corporate Security at Sentry Insurance and has been employed at Sentry Insurance since 2000 in various security functions. He is a 2nd generation Security professional and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2004. Irons was also an Information System Security Officer (ISSO) for the U.S. Army, a 20 year career which includes:

• Physical Security Officer
• Wireless & Spectrum Management Engineer
• Mobilization Planner
• Recruiter
• IT System Planner & Architect

This valuable session is scheduled during the Spring Clinic on Friday, April 1 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in room Pegasus E 1-2. ◆