FOSE 2008

Meeting the Challenges of the 21st-Century Warfighter Using Everything over IP

Because the modern-day war fighter demands an ever-increasing amount of information to stay ahead of current and near-term threats, existing circuit-based communications systems are unable to meet these demands. To overcome this capability shortfall, Everything over Internet Protocol (EoIP) is being adopted by the military to provide warfighters with a powerful set of tools—voice, data, and video—that will better help them fight and win on the battlefield while decreasing the amount of equipment needed to deploy. Moving to an EoIP platform dramatically reduces the complexity and total cost of ownership of the network and simplifies network upgrades. PacStar and Cisco have co-developed the only fully IP-based network solution that enables converged, collaborative IP communications in theater and on the base. This solution is differentiated by the added benefit of comprehensive system self-management software, which makes the solutions easy to deploy and maintain and includes remote monitoring and alerting.

Attendees will learn about:

• Benefits of moving to EoIP
• DISA requirements to connect to the DISN
• The solution for deployable and enterprise EoIP systems
• Review of the technology to meet Department of Defense requirements and reduce costs

Bob Dunn, Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing, PacStar

Liz Casale, Director of Technology, PacStar

Green IT: Data Center Consolidation and Optimizing Your Computing Environment

By attending this session you will learn:

• How recognized industry leaders are transforming their own IT operating environments
• Measurable environmental benefits from enterprisewide data center consolidation initiatives
• How to set realistic estimates and expectations for power consumption and cooling throughout data centers and the information service delivery ecosystem
• Recommended best practices for establishing timelines, phasing, and testing of integrated data center consolidation programs
• How to employ a new data center power efficiency architecture to implement energy-efficiency policies
• How to evaluate your network operations to determine effective consolidation strategies that result in “greener” operating environments

Tim Silk, Federal Engineering Manager for Data Center Solutions, Cisco

Niraj Srivastava, Solution Architect, Consulting and Integration, HP

Secure Wireless Architecture Type 1: Cisco and Harris

As federal defense, civilian, and intelligence agencies implement wireless networks to provide anywhere, anytime access to classified resources, new security challenges present themselves. Two of today’s leading technology companies, Cisco and Harris, have overcome those factors with a unique and innovative partnership. The Secure Wireless Architecture Type 1 solution combines Cisco’s secure wireless products and architectures with the Harris SECNET 54 Type 1 802.11 a/b/g HAIPE encryptor to form a secure wireless solution for deploying classified traffic across unclassified (black) wireless and wired networks.

Stephen Orr, Consulting System Engineer, Cisco

Joe Warren, Harris

Coleman: Unified Communications: Learn from the Masters Program

Effective communications supported by interoperable technology is vital to providing complete situational awareness for emergency response personnel. Often the lack of integrated systems poses a significant risk to first responders, until now. Coleman Technologies, in collaboration with Cisco and other industry-leading partners, has developed the SAfER Architecture to deliver complete situational awareness in any emergency situation through the integration of network-based applications such as:

• Unified communications
• Physical security and access control
• IP interoperability and collaboration system (IPICS)
• Digital media system
• Sensor integration and management
• Video analytics
• Geographic information system (GIS) framework

Learn how Coleman Technologies can deliver a completely integrated solution for first responders that enables a completely interoperable communications platform, regardless of device, with enhanced applications such as video analytics, sensor integration, and mass notification.

Jim Crim, Vice President of Federal Information Technologies, Coleman Technologies Inc.

E-Mail: Security, Policy Enforcement, Compliance, Data Leakage Prevention, and E-Mail Encryption

E-Mail represents the most ubiquitous and mission-critical application in today's enterprise. Every day gigabytes of data flow in and out of federal domains.

Understanding and controlling this flow of data are the topics of this important session. Helping ensure minimum delay and maximum security and protecting critical federal communications mean using several tools. This session will cover topics such as reputation filtering, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration, content scanning, bounce attack prevention, domain keys signing, data leakage prevention, reporting, and simplified management.

Tom Topping, Director Federal Operations, IronPort

Security: Network Admission Control

Enforce your organization's security policies on all devices seeking network access. Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) allows only compliant and trusted endpoint devices, such as PCs, servers, and personal digital assistants (PDAs), onto the network, restricting the access of noncompliant devices and thereby limiting the potential damage from emerging security threats and risks. Cisco NAC gives organizations a powerful, roles-based method of preventing unauthorized access and improving network resiliency.

Elton Fontaine, Security Consulting Engineer, Cisco

Invisible Attackers: Stop the Bot

Every day, hackers use stealth techniques to gain access to computer systems. Many companies, agencies, universities, and other organizations unwittingly provide a home on their networks for these silent attackers. This FOSE Education session will show you the latest tools and techniques hackers use and what you can do to limit their ability to penetrate your network. You will learn the practical steps you can take now to identify and control these threats, without buying additional hardware or software. You will also find out about security solutions from Cisco that can help you better safeguard your resources and valuable information.

David Graziano, Cisco

Secure Information Security Architecture: An Alliance-Based Approach for Assured Information Sharing

One of the biggest issues facing the IT industry is the rapid accumulation of sensitive content. How to secure, use, and manage that content in a way that assures the privacy of the information while helping to meet organizational missions is a challenge too big to be solved by any one technology vendor, integrator, or internal organization. The solution will require a unique coalition-based approach where industry giants must work together to overcome this growing problem. The Secure Information Security Architecture (SISA) and the SISA Alliance, consisting of Microsoft, Cisco, EMC, and others, is the first COTS-based architecture to address this growing issue by working together along with systems integrators to help ensure secure information sharing.

Sam Chun, CISSP Security Architect, Secure Information Sharing Architecture Alliance, Cisco

Transforming Citizen Customer Service

Citizens expect government agencies to provide the same level of customer service and response that they receive from private industry. New and improved technologies are allowing citizen customers to serve themselves and receive live agent support whenever and by whatever means they choose. To support this transformation, contact centers are migrating to converged voice and data IP networks and open application frameworks. Cisco discusses how to help your agency make this transition with little or no disruption to your existing operations.

Tom Topping, Director Federal Operations, IronPort

IPv6: Cisco's Transition Plan

Federal customers are in the midst of a transition to IPv6. This session will outline Cisco’s recommendations about the actions that agency IT groups should consider while making this move to IPv6.

Dave West, Director, Field Operations, Federal Center of Excellence, Cisco

Telework Solutions: Is Your Agency Ready?

Cisco has developed technology solutions that support government telework laws, continuity of operations (COOP), and accessibility laws to help ensure government agencies and their employees can maintain communication and collaboration, regardless of work environment, to meet their agency mission. Cisco will talk about trends as well as expose five points that have delayed teleworking adoption and present solutions to these concerns.

John Speicher, Industry Solution Manager, Cisco

Next-Generation Wireless: 802.11n

In less than a decade, wireless LANs have evolved from an interesting idea to an indispensable technology for millions of businesses and consumers. The latest generation of high-speed wireless LAN solutions, based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Draft 802.11n standard, is now available. The 802.11n standard will offer several advantages over previous wireless LAN technologies. The most notable advantages are substantially improved reliability and greater application data throughput. However, before deciding whether to deploy 802.11n wireless solutions, organizations need answers to several questions: What do 802.11n technologies do differently from previous wireless solutions? What is the state of the standardization effort for 802.11n? Will 802.11n be backward-compatible with currently deployed wireless clients and access points? What factors should be considered to determine when it makes sense to deploy 802.11n?

Susan Stewart, Product Sales Specialist, Mobility Solutions, Cisco

Empowered Government Workforce

Learn how government agencies are applying secure, innovative information technologies that empower their employees to be more collaborative.

Chris Shenefiel, Cisco, Industry Marketing Manager, Cisco

IPv6: Delivering Innovation Without Limits

By gaining an understanding of the innovation possible in an IPv6-enabled world, attendees will be challenged to break the current model of thinking in regard to communications. We will explore new capabilities that dramatically enhance mission and agency operations and services and the benefits of IPv6 transition.

Dave Rubal, Senior Manager of Systems Engineering, Cisco

Better Security Now from HP and Cisco: A Secure Ecosystem

Learn how HP and Cisco are teaming to help federal customers make their IT infrastructures more secure. In this session you will learn how to take advantage of existing investments from HP, Cisco, and other technology providers to harden your environment, improve your agency's FISMA compliance and improve continuity of operations. This lunch and learn session will expose participants to a joint security architecture from HP and Cisco and educate participants about the seven Cs of security.

Paul Fleischman, Security Practice Principal, HP Federal

Michael Jones, Federal Security Services Manager, Cisco

Accelerating Operational Success Through Proactive Change Control

In today’s world, IT professionals face multifaceted challenges. Intense pressure to meet a variety of compliance mandates, increased demand for new services and applications, and a feature-rich network infrastructure accelerate problems in the network. As IT budgets continue to primarily support maintenance and operational costs to meet these challenges, it is very clear that agencies must change and instead utilize their IT organization for innovation and efficiencies. This session will examine how federal agencies can successfully overcome these challenges and promote control change operations through proactive automation to help ensure secure data, policy, and regulatory compliance.

Bill Philbrick, Manager, Channel System Engineers, Cisco

Cisco's Wide Area Application Services: Accelerating the Delivery of Information Across the Extended Enterprise

Are you looking to consolidate file servers to a central location but concerned about performance? Or do you have performance problems with centralized applications? If so, come to the Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) session to learn how WAAS can help improve performance in these situations.

Janice Callahan, ANS Product Sales Specialist, Cisco

Ed Shmookler, ANS Systems Engineer, Cisco

The Greening of Federal Data Centers

Federal data centers are prime candidates for greener energy practices. More efficient power usage in federal data centers not only is environmentally responsible, but also reduces costs and alleviates real estate congestion through well-implemented IT consolidation projects. Join Cisco for a session that will focus on reducing power consumption while at the same time improving the performance of federal data centers.

Stu Hancock, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco

Shannon VanLandingham, Product Sales Specialist, Cisco

Safety and Security Architecture for Emergency Response and Notification

In response to increasing threats of terrorism and natural disasters, safety and security personnel at all agencies and commands must overcome barriers that complicate collaboration and increase risk.

Effective communications enabled by interoperable technology are vital to the situational awareness, scalability, and effectiveness of incident response. By taking advantage of the networkcentric convergence of physical security and communications technologies, you can reduce decision cycle times and increase the quality and effectiveness of response in almost any situation.

Randy Sisto, Cisco

Secure Data Center

This session will focus on integrating security into the data center to provide a layered architecture, providing solutions support data center consolidation and support regulatory compliance requirements.

John Meggers, Consulting System Engineer, Cisco

Turn It On

Get the most from the powerful features already residing on your Cisco routers and switches. With this information and your expertise, you can maximize the return on investment (ROI) of your existing Cisco equipment.

Keith Gibson, System Engineer, Cisco

Networx: The Future of Managed Services

Federal agencies today have begun to redefine their missions to reflect the shift in management responsibility as they move from being the government “provider” to the “manager” of public services. The most effective way to adopt these managed services is to use the General Service Administration’s Networx contract. The Networx contract allows agencies to focus their resources on building transparent, secure operating environments while helping ensure access to the best technology industry vendors have to offer. With the implementation of a full managed service strategy, agencies will decrease risk, manage costs, manage resources more effectively, and improve the quality of their services.

Cathy Schwedes, Federal Systems Engineering Manager, Cisco

Security at the Enterprise Network Edge: Needs, Challenges, and Solutions

Enterprises need to extend wide area network (WAN) services globally in a rapidly evolving environment, without risking security, performance, and critical network uptime. Meeting those needs while minimizing operational complexity and cost is an ongoing challenge.

The new Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers offer an integrated architectural approach using a portfolio of platforms featuring built-in threat detection and containment with scalable, highly available, embedded security services.

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers are highly scalable WAN and Internet edge routers using the innovative Cisco QuantumFlow processor to deliver high performance embedded Cisco IOS Software services such as VPN, 10-Gbps firewall, IP Security (IPsec) encryption services, deep packet inspection (DPI), NetFlow, quality of service (QoS), and many other standards-based and certified security services without the need for separate service blades.

Prashanth Shenoy, Marketing Manager, Network Systems

Unified Communications: Applications for Government

Federal agencies can simplify operational processes by integrating customized effective IP communication and collaboration solutions, including messaging, voice, presence capabilities, videoconferencing, and Web conferencing. These unified communications solutions are standards-based applications that integrate with everyday-type tools, such as Microsoft Outlook and IBM Lotus Notes. With Cisco Unified Communications solutions, learn how your agency can easily access the people, tools, and content needed, regardless of location, based upon your agency’s own operations, rules, and preferences.

Brent Byrnes, Regional Manager, Unified Communications, Cisco

The Horizontal Effects of IPv6 in Enterprise Architectural Planning

This session will explore how IPv6 will affect every network, user, and application and the horizontal effects needed for successful strategic planning.

We will discuss the effects to security policies, service provider services, voice and video networks, and other IP-centric applications. We will also provide important architectural insight and considerations when transitioning to IPv6 and how to quickly enable new services and capabilities in military, civilian, homeland security, and healthcare applications.

Dave Rubal, Senior Manager of Systems Engineering, Cisco

Successful Security Solution Deployments

Security is top of mind for executives across federal agencies and commercial enterprises alike. However, a poorly architected and deployed security solution can frustrate end users and negatively affect productivity and the primary mission of the agency. This session will focus on methodologies, best practices, and tools for successfully deploying Cisco Self-Defending Network solutions.

Michael Jones, Advanced Technology Services Specialist, Cisco

Redefining Data Center Solutions

Data center solutions set the standard for data center–class networking and IT solutions and help customers create next-generation virtualized and automated data centers. Cisco data center solutions address many of the business and operational challenges of today's data centers. By using the network as a platform for data center transformation, you can:

• Improve efficiency and increase application performance
• Better manage and utilize all data center resources
• Deliver more robust business continuance
• Build cost-effective storage area networks
• Enhance data security

These solutions are based upon tested, proven designs that enable low risk, incremental evolution for the next-generation data center. They increase efficiency, enhance performance, and decrease energy use while giving you the agility to respond to change.

Rich Campbell, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco

Mark Hair, Data Center Specialist, Cisco

Secure Wireless LANs for the Federal Government

The Cisco Unified Wireless Architecture transparently integrates key controls and security technologies from both the wired and wireless components, creating a defense-in-depth security architecture that provides a standards-based, cost-effective, scalable, reliable, and easy-to-deploy enterprise solution.

Stephen Orr, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco

Effective Collaboration: Video, Web, and Cisco TelePresence

Now more than ever, federal agencies are being asked to collaborate, share information, and become more efficient in their operations. Agencies are adopting Web collaboration tools and video applications to accomplish this goal. Learn how to integrate conferencing and video solutions with your IP network for more effective communications, while helping ensure security and cost effectiveness.

Jose Leary, Product Sales Specialist, Unified Communications, Cisco