• Assessing risks associated with VM security
• Which areas of focus enable companies to capitalize on virtualization benefits while minimizing vulnerabilities
• Real-world examples of how technology reviews of virtualization vendors are key to realizing security benefits and risks
• What to consider when pitching virtualization to upper management
• How to reduce risk by understanding the ways configuration changes affect your IT environment

Alessandro Perilli
Contributor, SearchServerVirtualization.com
Alessandro Perilli, a self-described server virtualization evangelist, launched his influential virtualization.info blog in 2003. He is an IT security and virtualization analyst, book author, conference speaker and corporate trainer. He was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for security technologies by that company.

Anil Desai
Site Expert, SearchServerVirtualization.com
Anil Desai is an independent consultant based in Austin, Tex. He specializes in evaluating, implementing and managing solutions based on Microsoft technologies. He has worked extensively with Microsoft’s Server products and the .NET development platform and has managed datacenter environments that support thousands of virtual machines.

Bill Brenner
Senior News Writer, SearchSecurity.com
Bill Brenner reports on the latest threats to IT security--from software vulnerabilities to worm attacks and information theft--for SearchSecurity.com and Information Security magazine. He has several years of experience as a reporter and editor, starting as a writer for Community Newspaper Company. He spent four-plus years as an assignment editor at The Eagle-Tribune, the daily newspaper of Massachusetts’ Merrimack Valley region and southern New Hampshire, before deciding to resume his writing with a focus on technology. His interest in IT security is based on the growing dependence businesses and organizations have on their computer systems.

Robert Westervelt
News Editor, SearchSecurity.com
Robert Westervelt is a news reporter and editor for SearchSecurity.com. Since joining TechTarget in July 2003, Rob has covered SAP, Oracle and the database industry for SearchDatabase.com, SearchSAP.com and SearchOracle.com. Prior to joining TechTarget, Rob was a newspaper reporter for five years at The Day in New London, Conn., where he wrote a variety of crime, general news, government and business stories while covering towns in Southeastern Connecticut. A military veteran, Rob served four years with the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Forces Police in Kaiserslautern Germany. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Connecticut.