Jason Howe to Lead Discussion on Corporate Compliance and Secure Communications

Online, June 5, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Jason Howe, CEO of Vaporstream Inc., a Secure Recordless Messaging Service (SRMS) provider that offers private and secure messaging channels for business communications, will moderate a panel on the importance of secure recordless messaging and its relation to corporate compliance and governance at the General Counsel Conference on June 5 and 6 at the Marriot Marquis. The Honorable Judge Ronald J. Hedges; Nancy Flynn, founder and executive director of The ePolicy Institute; Dawson Horn III, Senior Litigation Counsel at Tyco International; and Tyson Hempel, Enterprise Account Manager at CommVault; will also participate in the panel.

The panel, titled "Corporate Compliance and Secure Communications: Achieving Balance," will address the challenge of developing company policies that comply with corporate governance requirements and protect sensitive communications within an organization. The panel will discuss these challenges in relation to the growing threat of corporate data breach, and address the need for a robust corporate ePolicy to determine the difference between a communication that must be preserved and a communication that does not need to be preserved.

"Secure communications are non-negotiable in today's operating environment," said Howe. "Twenty-first century executives have to worry about hackers, corporate espionage, and both accidental and intentional data leaks. We often think about the need for secure communications as something that must be balanced with the need for business records, but they are actually part of the same need. Just as it is necessary to preserve important business records, it is equally vital to protect sensitive business communications from prying eyes."

As the only truly recordless digital communication platform in the world, Vaporstream helps protect businesses and investors from the $80 billion a year problem caused by security breaches, user errors and communications taken out of context.

"With his background in eDiscovery and ESI, Judge Hedges is an ideal panelist on this topic. He can address the legal requirements and responsibilities surrounding the use of SRMS technology," added Howe. "Hedges 'wrote the book' - his work on eDiscovery and ESI is widely respected in the field. Through her work at The ePolicy Institute, which is devoted to the proper corporate use of technology, Nancy Flynn has also built expertise in this area, and can speak to issues of corporate compliance."

Howe participates in a number of high-level roles in the industry, which provides him a broad perspective on current issues and trends. Howe is an acclaimed thought leader in early stage company leadership and solution selling. He was named one of the "Top CEO's Under 40" by the San Diego Tribune and one of the "Most Influential In Healthcare" by Modern Health Magazine.

Hedges, a Former United States Magistrate Judge, has extensive experience in eDiscovery and in the management of complex litigation and has served as a special master, arbitrator and mediator. He also consults on management and discovery of Electronically Stored Information (ESI). Hedges is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association, among others.
Flynn, an internationally recognized expert on workplace email, social media, and Internet policy, compliance, and communications, is founder and executive director of The ePolicy Institute, as well as the author of 12 books including The Social Media Handbook; The ePolicy Toolkit; The e-Policy Handbook; E-Mail Rules; Blog Rules; Instant Messaging Rules; E-Mail Management; and Writing Effective E-Mail.

Horn managed a large toxic tort docket, insurance recovery docket and a complex commercial litigation docket as Senior Litigation Counsel for Tyco. Prior to that her served as Assistant General Counsel at Altria Corporate Services and Scott Paper. Because of his extensive litigation background, Mr. Horn keeps current on a range of related issues, including the evolving law of ediscovery, internal investigations and a recent focus on risk management/compliance issues.

Hempel is an Enterprise Account Manager at CommVault. CommVault provides data and information management software to help companies protect and manage their data. With over 18,000 customers, CommVault is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software.

For more information, visit www.Vaporstream.com or call 1-800-367-0780.

About Vaporstream
Based in Chicago, Vaporstream is a Secure Recordless Messaging Service (SRMS) provider that offers the only completely secure and confidential digital messaging channels for executive and high-level communication. Our patented SRMS protects messages by securely transmitting them through cyberspace, while never creating Electronically Stored Information (ESI) or leaving a digital footprint. Vaporstream communications, or "Vispers," can never be copied, forwarded, printed, saved or traced, restoring privacy and control to the sender of the communication. By providing authorized personnel the proper policy and the appropriate tools to communicate securely, Vaporstream helps protect businesses and investors from an $80 billion a year problem, arising from security breaches, unintended propagation and unnecessary eDiscovery. Vaporstream currently has more than 150 corporate clients and is used by almost every industry in which highly-sensitive information is communicated including: banking and finance, federal and state government, healthcare, human resources, insurance, legal, high-technology and national defense. For more information, visit www.vaporstream.com