February 27, 2009, Makati City, Philippines – Trends & Technologies, Inc. (TTI) together with Cisco held a network security seminar last February 27, 2009, Friday, at the Renaissance Hotel Makati. The event, aptly named Security Best Practices, was designed to address the critical security concerns of enterprises today. The seminar was attended by Chief Information Officers of companies coming from various sectors such as banking and finance, healthcare, manufacturing and telecommunications among others. The event opened with a brief speech from Mr. Jan Balajadia, Director for Sales and Brand Marketing of Trends & Technologies, who emphasized the importance of securing one’s assets especially in these trying times.

Sharing their knowledge in the seminar were two of Cisco’s foremost security experts. The first was Mr. James Jimeno a Cisco Network Security Consultant who has with him, years of expertise in dealing with top Philippine corporations. Jimeno’s talk entitled “Self-Defending Network as the Foundation for IT Risk Management Framework” focused on the need for higher capacity security appliances that address the ever-increasing requirements for safety measures. He discussed as well, Cisco’s Security Solutions Portfolio which aims to provide business security, intrusion prevention and unified threat management to its users.

Mr. James Jimeno, Network Security Engineer, Cisco Systems and Mr. Kevin Lai, Security Sales Specialist-Asia, Cisco Systems