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NCA Security & Technology
Conference 2010

Hyatt Regency l Bellevue WA
Thursday, October 21, 2010

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Network Computing Architects Inc. (NCA) is proud to present the fourth annual Pacific Northwest Security & Technology Conference, focused on practical solutions to tough business challenges facing companies today.

This conference will be a great opportunity to meet with some of our industries best and brightest, many of whom will be giving presentations, including participation on panels, sharing roadmaps and opinions of recent developments in enabling technologies including security and what it will mean to organizations such as yours.

Keynote:
John McAdam, President, Chief Executive Officer, F5 Networks

Keynote
8:00 AM Main Ballroom

IT staff are being asked to do more with less-provide more flexibility and align itself with the business-but do so at a reduced cost. These pressures are pushing organizations to adopt virtualization and cloud computing at an increased rate—a rate that makes them uncomfortable because of critical unknowns: security, performance, and control. F5’s vision addresses these issues from an architectural standpoint and provides a platform to address today’s needs and tomorrow’s challenges. Read more...

Special Guest:
Dr. Phyllis A. Schneck, Vice President and CTO, Public Sector, McAfee, Inc.

Squashing the Cyber Adversary
1:00 PM Main Ballroom

Cyber security, interlocked from silicon to satellite, is the nexus of all critical infrastructure, keeping the lights on, banks open and water clean and available. Security will be sharply redefined in the next decade as what is currently known as “cyber security” evolves into secure communication that enables cross-sector resiliency throughout critical infrastructure and key resources such as electric power, gas/oil, finance and water. Read more..

Conference Highlights:
Qualifies for 8 ISC(2) Group B CPE Credits
(which translates into 1 credit per hour)

Panel Discussion: The Investment Side of Technology

Panel Discussion: Virtualization and the Promise of Self Service Clouds

Deploying an application ready
network for the Microsoft platform

Unified IP Communications Exposed: Simple vs. Complex UC Solutions

Securing the Virtualized Datacenter

Wireless LANs and Dealing with RF Ambiguities

Application Delivery Assurance

Panel Discussion: Smart Credentials, Verified Identity and Online Trust

Social Networking, Enterprise 2.0, and Security: Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, or Threat?

Cloud Computing: The Evolution from Best- effort Cloud to Enterprise-class

Network-Based Identity and Access Management

Panel Discussion: 5 A's: Applications, Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime, who's Authorized

ABOUT NCA
Network Computing Architects, Inc. is a premier provider of high quality sustainable and secure networking, information security solutions and unified communications. We partner with our clients to provide answers to business initiatives where leading technologies converge.

We are based in Bellevue, (Washington) and have additional offices in Spokane, (Washington), Portland, (Oregon), and Los Gatos (California).

NCA achieved ISO 27001:2005 certification in December 2007. The scope of NCA's ISMS is client confidential information within the Information Security Practice.