DETROIT - Greg Garcia, the Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Telecommunications for the Department of Homeland Security, will deliver the keynote address at Detroit SecureWorld, October 10 at the Ford Conference and Event Center. Garcia will be covering IT Sector-Specific Plan Development and Implementation. MiTech News Subscribers receive complimentary admission to Keynotes, Expert Panels, Vendors
YPSILANTI ? Network security solutions provider XyLocTM announced it has relocated its corporate offices to the Forest Health Services Building in Ypsilanti as the company prepares for rapid growth. Ensure Technologies moved its headquarters to a larger facility shared with Forest Health Services, a XyLoc customer since 1999. The increased office space is designed to
LANSING - Local governments could be forced to layoff as many as 5,000 police and fire fighters if an all cuts solution to the 2007-08 budget is enacted, GoV. Jennifer Granholm said in a radio interview Thursday. But she also expressed confidence that the House will enact a total plan to resolve the budget issue
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan InfraGard is looking for volunteers to staff centers in four Michigan cities that will be participating on Sept. 27 in a Flu Pandemic Exercise. Larry Shattuck, Midwest Region Representative for InfraGard, talks about the exercise in this Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
KALAMAZOO - GLIMASouthwest.Com is hosting a Security seminar at the Fetzer Center at Western Michigan University's campus on Oct. 4 called Shedding New Light On IT Security. In this Newsmaker Interview, Faith Heikkila of PivotGroup, the conference organizer, talks about what attendees can learn about at the Tech Expo 2007. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com
SOUTHFIELD ? Vulnerability assessment methodology and tools for the non profit sector will be the topic addressed Sept. 18 at the Motorcity chapter of ISSA. Public awareness of security issues in the non-profit sector has focused on large organizations such as Goodwill and The Red Cross. The risks faced by these companies are also faced
ESCANABA - The Third Annual I.T. in the U.P. Conference Sept. 20 at the M-TEC in Bay College is the Upper Peninsula's only forum that brings together system designers, engineers, scientists, practitioners, and end-users for the objective of advancing business through the use of technology. The conference will focus on current IT practices and challenges
YPSILANTI - The National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance and the Center for Regional and National Security at Eastern Michigan University launched its eighth School of Computer Forensics on Sept. 10. This six-week training program will add 20 new computer forensic examiners for the state of Michigan in their battle against Internet Child
MILFORD - CrimeCog Technologies has purchased the integrated criminal justice information system, E*Justice from Northrop Grumman Information Technology. Under the terms of the acquisition, CrimeCog will support all current E*Justice contracts and will extend its customer base into seven states. Financial terms of the purchase were not disclosed. CrimeCog also hired E*Justice software engineers formerly
SAN JOSE - Secure Computing, an enterprise gateway security company, has joined Alternative Technology's Follow the Wire program that has a sales philosophy of providing products, services and support that address critical customer needs, and how to address more of those critical needs by offering multiple product solutions from one vendor. "For every point-product project