IT Executive Roundtable Breakfast to Focus on how Organizations can Close the Gap Between Policies & Defenses in the Face of Network Change

Somerset, NJ – December 3, 2007 – Lumeta, the leading provider of network assurance solutions for enterprises and government agencies, today announced that it will be participating in IT executive roundtable breakfast events in Dallas on Thursday, December 6, 2007 beginning at 8:00 a.m. CST, and in New York on Wednesday, November 12, 2007 beginning at 8:00 a.m. EST. The event, titled Network Assurance, Security & Regulatory Compliance: Closing the Gap between Policies & Defenses, will feature Paul Stamp, principle analyst at Forrester Research, Jennifer Zaino, contributing editor at InformationWeek, with additional commentary from Lumeta’s Executive Vice President, Technology and Operations, Michael Markulec. To register for the events, please visit: www.cmp-customevents.com/lumeta/.

Many large enterprises with complex networks are less prepared for compliance audits than they think and often realize this fact when it’s too late. Security policies have been implemented, but constant change on the network often creates unseen gaps in defenses. At these events, attendees will have an opportunity to learn about developing a security framework that will shore up those defenses, and how they can assure that the defense configurations are aligned with policies.

“CIOs have a major challenge in assuring that security programs remain current and as well as in compliance with regulatory mandates,” said Markulec. “To fully understand risk to the enterprise and maintain compliance, organizations must have controls in place to quantify how changes in the network and security infrastructure expose the organization to threats, performance problems, or compliance violations.”

Achieving network assurance requires visibility into all devices connected to the network; both managed and unmanaged. Administrators must understand how changing connectivity to specific devices impacts compliance and executives must understand whether a specific initiative is, in the aggregate, making the network more or less compliant. Lumeta's IPsonar actively scans the network to collect data that assists network personnel, security managers and executives by allowing them to accurately visualize what's on the network, drilling down to analyze potential areas of risk and identify appropriate corrective actions.
At this event attendees will learn how to:

• Develop a security framework in order to bridge the gap between security and IT operations
• Mitigate the risk to compliance posture caused by major network change events - such as mergers and acquisitions or network consolidation
• Apply network assurance to complement system and data security efforts to round out the risk management and compliance equation
• Use actionable network risk data to validate that defenses are aligned with policies
• Build a scorecard with metrics that quantify network risk and measures effectiveness over time
• Learn from peers about how they are addressing Network Assurance issues

About Lumeta Corporation
Lumeta provides large enterprises and government agencies with the global visibility needed to quantify network risk and measure the impact of network change. Our network assurance solutions enable IT organizations to deploy new business services, maintain existing service levels and minimize network security risk to ensure compliant operations.

Lumeta’s flagship product, IPsonar, is the industry’s only solution that allows organizations to measure risk from a global network perspective. IPsonar maps every asset on a network—including assets not currently under management—visualizes the connectivity between assets and networks to uncover risk patterns and policy weaknesses, and enables network and security teams to bring unknown assets under management while deploying security technology more effectively to mitigate risk.

For more information, visit the Lumeta Web site at www.lumeta.com.

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