Nashville Technology Council

Special Thanks to our Sponsors

Sirius Computer Solutions is an IBM Premier Business Partner and the largest IBM solution provider. Sirius Sales, Product Specialists, Consultants and Architects hold over 3,100 combined technical and sales certifications. Sirius offers Infrastructure and Software Consulting Services, a dedicated Security, Networking & Voice Practice, and total solutions that include hardware, software, networking, peripherals, services, support and financing. Sirius is certified for IBM Express Advantage offerings, and was the first Business Partner to achieve Specialty and Specialty Elite certifications for IBM’s new Dynamic Infrastructure initiative.

IBM is the world’s largest information technology company with more than 90 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, financing, solutions and technologies that enable clients of all sizes to take full advantage of the on demand era. IBM is proud to be a part of the Nashville business community since 1933. 

For more information on how IBM is making it easier than ever for mid-sized businesses to find the help they need to solve their toughest business problems please visit: www.ibm.com/expressadvantage

*GOLD SPONSORS*

Accuvant is the nation’s premier information security and risk management consulting firm and solutions provider. We help large enterprises assess their environments, improve their compliance postures, and secure their infrastructures. Accuvant was a member of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2007 and 2008.  Headquartered in Denver, Accuvant has 21 offices across the United States.

Cadre is a network and information security solutions provider that serves large and medium sized firms. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the security industry, Cadre continues to deliver value through superior customer service, advanced engineering and a resolute focus on design, assessment, installation, training and support of information security systems. All over the world, clients rely on Cadre to provide guidance and technical expertise on compliance, controlling technical risks, and achieving security goals.

Cadre is based in Cincinnati, has operations throughout the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast, while serving the needs of our clients globally. www.cadre.net / 888-TO-CADRE

MainNerve specializes exclusively in network and information security software and services and uses its Netforce Security™ line of products and services as the cornerstone of its differentiation in the market. MainNerve’s diverse client roster includes not only Fortune 500 businesses operating globally, but also any company whose critical systems are exposed to the Internet.

Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, FishNet Security is a national leader in Information Security solutions, integration, and professional and managed services. Since it’s founding in 1996, FishNet Security continues to be a market leader in helping businesses, government, educational institutions, and other organizations define the true risks in their environment and deploy the right solutions and technologies to ensure the continued success of day-to-day operations and objectives. With offices spanning coast-to-coast, located in 25 US cities, and a 15,000 square foot Security Operations Center (SOC), near its headquarters in Kansas City, FishNet Security is able to provide industry leading engineers, consultants, forensic teams, educators, and account managers to all facets of businesses and organizations throughout the United States. We focus on the threat…so you can focus on the opportunity.

Symantec™ is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help our customers – from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organizations – secure and manage their information against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently than any other company. Our company’s unique focus is to eliminate risks to information, technology and processes independent of the device, platform, interaction or location.  More information is available at www.symantec.com.

Gideon Technologies delivers IT Risk Management software that helps organizations visualize enterprise IT risks, improve IT effectiveness based upon industry standards and methodologies, and automate a wide range of information security activities. Our solution, SecureFusion™, automates and orchestrates enterprise IT risk management and compliance.  SecureFusion™ simplifies and integrates network discovery, baseline configuration management, vulnerability management, and reporting for enterprise risks and regulatory compliance. SCAP Validated, Enterprise Proven.

• Discover and visualize all Enterprise Networks & IT assets
• Prioritize risk accordingly, with automated vulnerability scanning
• Measure configuration items and policy compliance on demand

*SILVER SPONSORS*

Founded in 2004, Breach Security, Inc. is the leading provider of real-time, continuous web application integrity and security that protects sensitive web-based information. Breach Security’s products protect web applications from hacking attacks and data leakage, and ensure applications operate as intended.

Qualys, Inc. is the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions – delivered as a service. Qualys’ Software-as-a-Service solutions are deployed in a matter of hours anywhere in the world, providing customers an immediate and continuous view of their security and compliance postures.

The QualysGuard® service is used today by more than 3,500 organizations in 85 countries, including 40 of the Fortune Global 100 and performs more than 200 million IP audits per year. Qualys has the largest vulnerability management deployment in the world at a Fortune Global 50 company.

Qualys has established strategic agreements with leading managed service providers and consulting organizations including BT, Etisalat, Fujitsu, IBM, I(TS)2, LAC, SecureWorks, Symantec, Tata Communications, TELUS and VeriSign. For more information, please visit www.qualys.com.

Baker Donelson’s full-service Business and Technology Group handles technology and procurement transactions both domestically and internationally.  We represent clients regarding privacy and security, outsourcing, licensing, health care information technology, ASP and software as service (SaaS) offerings, cloud computing, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and the other general corporate and IP matters that often arise in this cutting-edge practice.  We represent both buyers and vendors, and we understand our clients’ business objectives and the need for work performed on time and on budget.

Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. This fuels high-performance businesses. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net

TippingPoint offers award-winning intrusion prevention solutions expressly designed to address network security requirements for service providers, academic institutions, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, government agencies and corporate enterprises. The TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is an in-line hardware platform that proactively ensures organizations are protected against internal and external cyber attacks that may threaten their critical infrastructures.

Digital Reasoning® Systems provides powerful software that delves deep into your unstructured data. To our customers, that means quicker analysis, more meaningful results, and much more time to focus on critical tasks rather than reading through thousands of documents. 

Digital Reasoning® Systems provides UDA solutions that enable organizations to reduce costs as well as increase revenue and customer satisfaction by mining and analyzing the over 80% of data that is unstructured and currently untapped, providing our customers with freedom from uncertainty.

Digital Reasoning® Systems is a rapidly growing firm that is intent on becoming the leader in the UDA market with best-of-breed solutions and unwavering customer focus.