IANS Joins Forces with Two Leading Event Organizers for Distinct and Unique Conferences for Mid-Market and Fortune 100-focused CISOs, CIOs and CTOs

BOSTON, MA (August 31, 2009) IANS (originally the Institute for Applied Network Security), a unique research and membership organization serving the risk management and IT security industries, today announces its collaboration with two leading event and conference organizers to host their wildly successful events designed exclusively for senior IT security executives.

This Fall Mid Market and Fortune 100 IT Executives Benefit from Insight and Knowledge

Collaborating with Everything Channel, an event and conference organization that leverages its powerful community of technology builders, sellers and buyers to come together to share best practices, network with peers, gain exclusive market intelligence from industry editors and analysts resulting in bottom line growth, IANS will host the Midsize Enterprise Summit West (September 13-16, Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles).

The Midsize Enterprise Summit brings senior IT executives from midsize businesses together with industry analysts and leading and emerging vendors. The focus – enabling strategic IT decision making – embraces midmarket-specific issues, trends and solutions from a horizontal and vertical industry-specific perspective. The business-intensive format includes analyst-led sessions, vendor-led World Premiere and Private Boardroom Appointments, a showcase of exhibits, and networking functions.

In addition, IANS is working with Evanta, an event and conference organization dedicated to creating and sustaining executive leadership networks for business leaders worldwide, and will host The CISO Executive Summit (October 15, Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco).

The CISO Executive Summit is a unique conference that supports the needs of Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) from the region's largest organizations. The goal of the conference is to provide a dynamic and relevant peer-to-peer exchange that facilitates best practices in enterprise technology management. The CISO Executive Summit is driven by a Governing Body of leading CISOs who play a vital role in the development of this conference. These CISOs create an agenda that addresses today's opportunities and challenges faced by their peers, thus delivering on the event promise, "by CISOs, for CISOs." Based on criteria developed by the Governing Body, speakers are invited following a highly selective nomination and qualification process. The Governing Body's goal is to ensure that the conference delivers valuable and useful information to all CISOs and IT executives who qualify to attend.

“Both large and mid-size organizations are facing a myriad of security related challenges – from budget reductions, staff constraints, increased compliance mandates, and rapid adoption of new technologies that ultimately leave an organization vulnerable to a broad and complex mix of IT security issues,” said Jack Phillips, co-founder and CEO, IANS. “Since our inception in 2001, we have worked to build a strong network of both IT practitioners and IT security product and service vendors who rely about our network of contacts to gain insight and build relationships among peers and IT decision makers. This network has proven valuable for idea exchange and knowledge transfer. Working with both Everything Channel and Evanta we’re fortunate to extend our knowledge to mid-market and Fortune 100 companies seeking advanced insight into the issues the face each day.”