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Mr. Brett Beranek
Solutions Marketing Manager
Enterprise Marketing
Nuance Communications, Inc.
www.nuance.com

The payments industry can benefit immensely from biometrics. With the recent attack on Target customers, we see once again how vulnerable the payments industry is to fraud. There is a strong need for a more secure method of authorizing transactions and voice biometrics offers a highly secure and seamless alternative. We’re thrilled to be part of the CARTES AMERICA event, and looking forward to sharing our insights and offering the payments industry with a solution to the ever increasing fraud challenge it faces. . More

Mr. Rob Wigley
Director, Cybersecurity Consulting Services
HP Enterprise Services, U.S. Public Sector

Without question, adversaries have become smarter, better organized, and more persistent as they seek to cause disruptions and access intellectual property and other sensitive information. The number of cyber threats is proliferating faster than many organizations can defend. Many companies and global governments have been subjected to some very sophisticated and targeted attacks, which have had a significant impact on their mission. This includes some recent extremely high-profile breaches conducted by insiders. In order to address these threats, first and foremost an organization needs to have an effective risk management program supported by senior management, with a strong governance structure, and integrated across all business processes. As businesses look for new growth opportunities and consequently adopt new technologies, the tradeoff becomes uncertainty and risk that could affect their mission and goals. A continuous process of risk management activities should be applied to identify new risks, reassess previously identified risks, and monitor and track the effectiveness of risk mitigation plans. . More

Mr. Net Payne
Chief Marketing Officer
March Networks
An Infinova Company
www.MarchNetworks.com

March Networks is ranked the #1 provider of enterprise digital video recorders (DVRs) in the Americas, as well as the #1 supplier of video surveillance equipment to the Americas’ banking market (IHS Inc., formerly IMS Research).  While our video surveillance solutions can be used in a variety of industries and applications, we focus in particular on providing the financial and retail markets with integrated solutions that help them increase profits and realize faster returns on their technology investments. We are also a leader in providing mobile video surveillance solutions to bus and light rail transit authorities. . More

Mr. Jim Miller
Chairman and CEO
ImageWare Systems, Inc.
www.iwsinc.com

As the biometric market landscape evolves, Fujitsu and ImageWare Systems (IWSY) continue to deliver leading cloud-based biometric identity management solutions and services that address the needs of companies in the financial services, retail, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. This cloud based biometric platform is designed to provide these industries with an agnostic approach relative to various modalities such as voice, facial, iris, and fingerprinting applications. In the past, biometric-enabled solutions entailed complex development processes, where projects typically took one year or longer to implement, and companies were required to make major upfront investments in hardware and software. Today, Fujitsu is collaborating with ImageWare Systems, a developer of identity-based, credential management solutions driven by biometric technology, to enable support for more than 50 biometric devices while instantaneously responding to different types of modalities. More

Mr. Mark L. Kay
Chairman and CEO
StrikeForce Technologies, Inc.
www.strikeforcetech.com

Cyber Theft and data breaches are increasing at a faster pace and in the news almost every day with reports on Data Breaches (e.g. Target, Living Social, Federal Reserve, State of Maryland), Viruses stealing keystrokes (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Gmail) and phishing attacks (fake websites - IRS, banks). Financial institutions are being sued and losing, and cybercrime statistics in our opinion, are projected to be into the trillions of dollars globally. In conjunction with this news, regulations focusing on protecting information are gathering strength with emphasis in the financial (FFIEC), healthcare (HIPPA), consumer (PCI) and now legal markets. If you then include various articles that state "...it is only a matter of time before your mobile device is hacked, if it isn't already," StrikeForce management contends that demand is increasing specifically for the types of features and capabilities that StrikeForce Technologies' patented and patent pending products deliver. All of this translates, in our estimation, into the potential for substantial sales and revenue growth in 2014 as the Company begins to exploit the mobile market and reaches its Vision of "Making the World a Safer Place." More

Mr. Danish Thanvi
CEO & President
Xcluesiv Cloud Technology Pte Ltd
www.xcluesiv.com

Xcluesiv is the Alliance partner of Zoho.com and Google Apps in Singapore. Both of them are world leaders in Cloud-Based Solutions, so Xcluesiv provides a perfect combination of 360 degree solution for small and midsize businesses to quickly adopt integrated cloud based ERP tools (CRM, HRM, recruitment, accounting, collaboration etc) and thus save a lot of money and time.  These solutions are secure and redundant, accessible from anywhere and from any device; this enhances the business potential tremendously. Interestingly, the Singapore government is aggressively pushing for the adoption and deployment of cloud services in the country." More

Mr. Ryan Skipp
T-Systems International GMBH
Portfolio & Solution Design - IT
Applications & Portfolio Architecture

www.t-systems.com

T-Systems as an Outsourcing & Service Provider has to provide base infrastructure services which meet the cost and quality expectations that a company transitioning to outsourced services would expect – better than they as an end-user could produce, with better quality, and lower cost!  In order to achieve that, T-Systems was one of the first Outsourcers to produce a “Cloud” platform, based on highly shared leveraged infrastructure, and with a number of pre-defined applications on top of that.  Today we have enhanced that infrastructure, and wrapped the Cloud functionality into it, all the way up to self-service (to application level) for our Private Cloud clients. . More

Mr. Mark Wood
Product Manager
Cloud Security
Dell SecureWorks
www.secureworks.com

Our purpose-built security platform enables us to filter, correlate and analyze more than 29 billion events across our global customer base every day. We’re also well known for our Counter Threat Unit research team, which includes some of the most experienced security experts in the industry. We use our correlation algorithms and our skilled staff to identify threat activity on customer networks as benign or hostile and to assign a level of severity to the hostile activity. The net is that if we call you, you know it’s worth your immediate attention and if we don’t, you know you can sleep easier. More

Mr. Jason Waxman
General Manager
Cloud Infrastructure Group
Intel

With cloud infrastructure, servers are typically virtualized and shared across multiple lines of business or even among multiple organizations rather than dedicated to specific lines of business. When IT wants to link multiple cloud data centers together to gain efficiencies—the tools to secure this far-reaching infrastructure are still evolving. This lack of visibility – even in private clouds that are behind a company’s firewall - have people concerned because they no longer have dedicated equipment for their line of business and instead are using shared, multi-tenant resources. This is why 61% of IT that were surveyed are concerned about having less control and visibility over these shared resources, even in a private cloud. Intel and McAfee are working to address these challenges and advance security solutions for cloud services. More