National Webcast Initiative

~ Remote Access ~

Wednesday, June 28, 2006
3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT

Presenters

John Nye
Symantec Corporation
Consulting Services Technical Lead

And

Christopher Labatt-Simon
D&D Consulting, Ltd.
CEO

John Nye:
John Nye is a Consulting Services Technical Lead for Symantec Corp. John has worked as an information security engineer and consultant for more than eight years for organizations such as GTE CyberTrust, Nortel Networks, @stake, and now Symantec. In these roles, John has worked with VPN product vendors and enterprises alike to develop, support and implement VPN solutions including those based on IP-Sec, MPLS, SSH, SSL, L2TP, L2F, and PPTP. John's current responsibilities include consulting to Symantec's clients in the areas of secure network design, regulatory compliance, and information security metrics. He also serves as a Technical Lead for Symantec's Infrastructure Security Center of Excellence; a functional group responsible for defining Symantec's network security advisory services offerings. And, as a recognized expert in information security, he has presented at numerous conferences and has been interviewed by the press.

Chris Labatt-Simon:
Christopher Labatt-Simon is CEO of D&D Consulting, Ltd., a network and information security integrator serving state and local government and the commercial sector, focusing on application security, application availability and application performance. Christopher has worked in the information technology arena for close to twenty years and assists organizations with solving business problems through the use of technology, resulting in decreased costs, increased efficiency and increased customer service. He continues to drive technological excellence forward at D&D Consulting by analyzing industry trends in communications and security, and educating decision makers on architectures and solutions that focus on corporate success. D&D Consulting has been widely recognized as an information technology leader on both the regional and national level by the press, industry analysts and customers.

Christopher has engineered some of the largest communications architectures currently in use by New York State and has spent much of his time focusing on remote workforce and customer communication. He is well versed in past and current technology enabling these users to access internal resources, and the security ramifications, both on a technical and a policy level that are inherent in such a solution. Technologies he is able to discuss include site to site virtual private networking, SSL VPN, SSL websites, two factor authentication, federated models of identity management for remote access, dial-up, and dedicated access (i.e. frame relay, point to point, MPLS). Additionally, he is familiar and has helped create policies, procedures and methodologies for the transition and roll-out to newer technologies and the security architectures necessary to support them. Christopher takes a vendor agnostic approach to his solutions, preferring to focus on solving the business requirements prior to selecting the technology to be used.


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