Just weeks away from the event, already there are approximately 50 exhibitors slated to be manning their booths at this year's third annual event. Such companies as Cisco, McAfee, Qualys, Novell and many others will have representatives available to demonstrate their solutions that very likely will be able to help support the corporate information security strategies developed by CISOs who will be attending this year's event. Not only will attendees be able to tinker with these offerings first-hand, but they'll also be able to pick the brains of industry experts during expo hall hours and at a more laid-back cocktail party on the opening day of SC World Congress, Nov. 10, at 5:25 p.m. Now in its third year, the SC World Congress is running Nov. 10 through 11 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers in New York City. — IA

Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., tentatively will be at the SC World Congress to discuss how state representatives are working to help the private sector to tackle today's cybersecurity threats. Clarke, a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security and Chair of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, Science and Technology, plans to review not only the various initiatives underway to thwart everything from identity theft to cyberterrorism, but also just how private organizations can help with her committees' information security initiatives. Her keynote is slated for Nov. 10 at 6 p.m. at the SC World Congress, which is taking place from Nov. 10 to 11 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers in New York City. — IA

An employee of the Boston Children's Hospital lost a laptop holding patient information.

Sensitive data belonging to people who made web-based purchases at the University of Maine's Orono Campus may have been stolen after the school's server suffered a security breach.