Bit9 Chief Strategy Officer Tom Murphy to Present at Symantec Government Symposium 2010

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06.21.2010 - Waltham, Mass.

Application Whitelisting

title="Symantec Government Symposium">Symantec Government Symposium

A "Gray Market" has fueled an underground industry of vulnerability discovery and exploited code development.  Unfortunately, this movement has become wide-spread and prolific.  Botnets, Trojan horse programs, passwords, and account information are all for sale on the Internet alongside personal and financial information.  This panel discussion will highlight the size and scope of this underground industry and showcase ways government organizations can discover vulnerabilities in order to suppress the growth and exploitation of this "underground economy."

What: “Gray Market Economy: Fueling the Threat Session”

Who:   Tom Murphy, Chief Strategy Officer, Bit9

When: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 from 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Where: Symantec Government Symposium 2010, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington D.C.

About Tom Murphy:

Tom Murphy has served as Bit9’s CSO since 2006 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 EnterpriseApplication Whitelisting. The company's award-winning solutions provide total visibility and control over all software on endpoints, eliminating the risk caused by malicious, illegal and unauthorized software. Bit9 provides advanced threat protection to the Advanced Persistent Threat.

Bit9 leverages the Bit9Global Software Registry™ - the world's largest database of software intelligence - to identify and classify software, delivering the highest levels of endpoint security, compliance, and manageability. Bit9’s dynamic application whitelisting technology makes it simple to deploy application whitelisting in the largest of organizations. Bit9's global customers include companies in a wide variety of industries, such as government, financial services, retail, healthcare, e-commerce and education.

Bit9 was awarded a prestigious $2M United States federal research grant in 2003 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology-Advanced Technology Program (NIST ATP) to conduct the research that is now at the core of our application whitelisting solutions. Bit9 is privately held and based in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information, visithttp://www.bit9.comor call +1 617.393.7400.

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