Industry Experts to Share their Vision of Endpoint Security at the RSA Conference

Gartner, Bit9, Kaspersky, Johns Hopkins University join panel discussion focused on whitelisting and blacklisting in today’s security environment

WALTHAM, Mass., April 16 /PRNewswire/ — Bit9, Inc., the pioneer and leader in Enterprise Application Whitelisting, today announced its participation in a panel titled “Black, White, or Gray – The Blending of Endpoint and Network Security” at the upcoming 2009 RSA Conference in San Francisco.

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Bit9‘s Chief Strategist, Tom Murphy, will be among members of a panel moderated by well-known security writer Michael Fitzgerald. Panelists will discuss the merits of integrating whitelisting security methodologies with anti-virus (blacklisting) based offerings — two formerly disparate schools of thought that now coexist to more comprehensively address endpoint security.

The panel also includes Ray Harris, chief information security engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a real-world user of both whitelisting and blacklisting security techniques.

    What:  RSA panel discussion titled "Black, White or Gray - The Blending
           of Endpoint and Network Security"
    When:  Wednesday, April 22 at 10:40 a.m. PT
    Where: Room Purple 309, Moscone Center, San Francisco
    Who:   Tom Murphy, chief strategist, Bit9
           Michael Fitzgerald, freelance journalist
           Nikolay Grebennikov, vice president, research and development,
           Kaspersky Lab
           Peter Firstbook, research director, Gartner
           Ray Harris, chief information security engineer, Johns Hopkins
           University

About Tom Murphy:

Tom Murphy was named CXO of the year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership in 2007, and he leads Bit9‘s worldwide strategy around application whitelisting. Murphy’s career spans decades in the enterprise computing space, including management positions with Symantec, Relicore, Veritas, Precise Software, BMC Software and GTE Government Systems Corporation. As an executive on the leading edge of information security, he has seen first-hand the evolution of desktop security, including several exciting new trends within the industry.

About Bit9, Inc.

Bit9 is the pioneer and leader in enterprise application whitelisting. The company’s application control solutions ensure only trusted and authorized applications are allowed to run, eliminating the risk caused by malicious, illegal and unauthorized software. Unlike traditional, reactive controls that try to scan and prevent the never-ending list of unauthorized software, Bit9 leverages the Bit9 Global Software Registry(TM) — the world’s largest database of software intelligence — to ensure only authorized applications can run, delivering the highest levels of desktop security, compliance and manageability. Bit9 customers include companies in a wide variety of industries such as retail, financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, telecommunications, as well as government agencies. Founded in 2002, Bit9 is privately held and based in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information, visit http://www.bit9.com or call +1 617.393.7400.

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    Jennifer Bulmahn
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