Vanguard Integrity Professionals Announces
24th Annual Vanguard Security 2010

RACF® Security Management, Audit and Compliance,
& Access Management Training for Security Professionals

LAS VEGAS - November 11, 2009 - Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the leading provider of RACF training, today announced that the annual Vanguard security training will be held April 19-22, 2010, at the Flamingo in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more than two decades Vanguard's annual training program has served IT security specialists with both basic and advanced security training from world-class educators drawn from the entire mainframe security community, as well as providing networking opportunities for all participants. Thomas Cosenza, an IT security consultant with IBM, calls the event "a dynamic atmosphere for learning about security."  
 
Vanguard Security 2010 will deliver practical skills that attendees can put to use immediately. Participants will receive hands-on training to enable them to implement secure business processes and thwart malicious attacks and breaches. Students will also gain insights into the latest regulations and industry developments that impact their day-to-day business practices.
 
The event, now in its 24th year, is comprised of five tracks:

Audit, Compliance and Regulations - This track focuses on exposing participants to new regulatory developments in Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Participants will learn how new developments affect day-to-day business operations as well as step-by-step strategies for mitigating long-term risks and reaching compliance.

RACF Basic Administration - Developed for security professionals new to RACF, this track provides introductory sessions and hands-on labs for security administrators, auditors and systems programmers.

RACF Advanced Administration - This track enables security administrators to gain in-depth knowledge of critical z/OS® applications and subsystems such as CICS®, DB2®, RRSF, and MQSeries® as well as digital certificates, crypto facilities and RACF.

RACF Technical - z/OS "techies" will utilize this track to stay ahead of emerging technical issues being addressed in organizations today. Many sessions focus on the latest enhancements to z/OS.

Vanguard Tools and Techniques
- Participants in this track learn to leverage the use of Vanguard Security Solutions with 'tips and tricks' to gain increased functionality.

About Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Vanguard Integrity Professionals provides enterprise security software and services that solve complex security and regulatory compliance challenges for government agencies and corporations around the world. With solutions for Audit and Compliance, Security Administration, Intrusion Detection and Identity and Access Management, Vanguard automates processes necessary to identify and mitigate the risks customers face. Vanguard's customers receive a rapid return on investment and are able to focus on other critical business needs thereby becoming more productive and more secure. For more information, visit www.go2vanguard.com.

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