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Mu Dynamics Presents at 20th Annual FIRST Conference on Insights Into Eliminating Downtime in Next Generation Services

Mu Co-Founder and CTO Kowsik Guruswamy to Present: "Who's Watching the Watch Dogs?"

Mu Dynamics, a pioneer in helping network operators and their vendors eliminate downtime through proactive service assurance, announced that Co-founder and CTO Kowsik Guruswamy will speak this week at the 20th Annual FIRST Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The presentation titled, “Who’s Watching the Watch Dogs? Automating Security Audits for Faster, Better and Less Expensive Results,” will be on Thursday, June 26, at 12:10 p.m.

Held June 22-27, at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, FIRST is the premier organization and recognized global leader in incident response. Attendance, including many of the 100+ Mu Dynamics customer deployments, will include representatives from the more than 180 member teams of FIRST, including Merrill Lynch, Cisco, Microsoft, Deutsche Bank, Symantec, Citigroup, Siemens, HP, Goldman Sachs, CERT/CC, British Telecom, and Oxford University.

WHO:

 

Co-founder and CTO Kowsik Guruswamy will speak this week at the 20th Annual FIRST Conference on the topic: "Who's Watching the Watch Dogs? Automating Security Audits for Faster, Better and Less Expensive Results."

 

WHAT:

Kowsik will discuss several topic areas surrounding the use of Service Analyzers, and how Service Providers proactively identify and eliminate service, application and network downtime caused by DoS and DDoS attacks. Other talking points will include:
-- How any NGN service and product's attack surface ultimately determines methods by which an attacker enters and potentially causes malicious exploit, downtime or information theft on a network.

-- How to automate security audits for any VoIP, IPTV or IMS-architecture product including network infrastructure security enforcement devices.

 

WHEN:

Thursday, June 26, at 12:10 p.m.

 

WHERE:

20th Annual FIRST Conference

Hyatt Regency Vancouver
Vancouver, BC, Canada

About Mu Dynamics

Mu Dynamics proactively eliminates the high cost of service, application and network downtime. Mu’s solution automates a systematic and repeatable process that identifies hard-to-detect sources of potential downtime within IP services, applications, and underlying networks. The award-winning Mu solution is deployed at more than 100 locations, primarily at leading global service providers, cable operators and network product vendors. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Mu is backed by leading venture capital firms that include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Focus Ventures. http://www.mudynamics.com.

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