Third Brigade and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to Share Cloud Security Experiences with VMware Customers

Ottawa, ON – Mar. 19, 2009 – Third Brigade (www.thirdbrigade.com), experts in server and application protection for dynamic datacenters, today announced , today announced that its co-founder, Bill McGee, will be joined by John Halamka, CIO and Dean of Technology at Harvard Medical School and Bill Gillis, director of clinical application services at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in a Webinar on Tuesday, March 24th at 11:00 am Pacific time. The webinar, titled “Security in the Cloud: Protecting Confidential Data in Cloud Computing Environments,” will outline best practices for cloud security and share lessons learned during the BIDMC private cloud deployment.

Webinar: Security in the Cloud: Protecting Confidential Data in Cloud Computing Environments

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 24^th, 11:00 am Pacific / 2:00 pm Eastern

Who:          John Halamka, CIO and Dean of Technology 
                  Harvard Medical School and BIDMC

                  Bill Gillis, Director of Application Services 
                  BIDMC

                  Bill McGee, Vice President, Products and Technology 
                  Third Brigade

                  Diane Guthmann, Cloud Product Marketing 
                  VMware

Register:    http://www.vmware.com/a/webcasts/details/208 

About Third Brigade
Third Brigade (www.thirdbrigade.com) specializes in server and application protection for dynamic datacenters. Our advanced software and vulnerability response service allows virtual machines and physical servers to become self-defending; safe from the latest online threats. This comprehensive, proven protection helps customers prevent data breaches and business disruptions. It enables compliance, supports operational cost reductions and addresses the dynamic nature of datacenters, including virtualization and consolidation, new service delivery models, or cloud computing. Third Brigade also owns and maintains OSSEC, the Open Source Host Intrusion Detection Project actively used in 50 countries around the world. Third Brigade. That’s control.

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