Dr. Peter Tippett of Verizon Business to Speak on April 24 at RSA Conference on Preventing Data Breaches
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SAN FRANCISCO – Dr. Peter Tippett, vice president of innovation and technology at Verizon Business, will speak at the RSA Conference on April 24. Tippett’s remarks will feature key findings from Verizon’s Business’ just-released “2009 Data Breach Investigations Report.”
| WHEN: | Friday, April 24, 9 a.m. Pacific time |
| WHERE: | RSA Conference in the Moscone Center, Purple Room 308 |
| WHO: | Dr. Peter Tippett, vice president of innovation and technology, Verizon Business |
| WHAT: | Although chief security officers have the heavy burden of protecting corporate information assets, they frequently lack hard data to make well-informed decisions. Dr. Peter Tippett, author of the groundbreaking, annual Data Breach Investigations Report, will discuss many misconceptions that stand in the way of developing a risk-based security program. He will present forensics data from the 2008 and 2009 breach reports, which take into account actual computer crime investigations from 2004 to 2008. Tippett will then apply the findings of these reports into actionable data that CSOs can put into practice. |
| BACKGROUND: | Dr. Peter Tippett is vice president of innovation and technology for Verizon Business and is the chief scientist of the security product testing and certification organization, ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business. An information security pioneer, Tippett has led the computer security industry for more than 20 years, initially as a vendor of security products, and over the past 16 years, as a key strategist. He is widely credited with creating the first commercial anti-virus product that later became Norton AntiVirus. |
The Verizon Business 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report, based on data analyzed from actual computer crime cases -- comprising 285 million compromised records from 90 confirmed breaches -- revealed corporations fell victim to some of the largest cybercrimes ever during 2008. The full report is available at http://www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/security/reports/2009_databreach_rp.pdf
| Area: | Global |
| Name: | Brianna Carroll Boyle |
| Tel: | +1-703-859-4251 |
| E-mail: | brianna.boyle@verizon.com |
