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INFORMATION SECURITY
In addition to the leading industry figures, the Information Security Leaders events give attendees the opportunity to hear from the leading vendors and partners in Information Security.
Information Security Leaders caught up with some of the key partners at the events to hear their views on how the industry has changed, what the current challenges are and how their organisations are helping to combat these.
Caroline Ikomi, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, confirmed that: “security is no longer just about implementing a single policy, it’s about total management, governance, audit and control”.
Others agreed. “A lot of people believe that cyber security is just following best practice of information assurance, it goes beyond that though and is more about greater collaboration between industries. There is a lot more threat intelligence being shared between verticals.” said Nick Baglin, HP Information Security.
John Meldrum, ArcSight, pointed out that a big change in the last few years was around the nature of the threats themselves. “In the past the hackers have been typified by being the computer geek type, whose main focus is on the thrill of the chase or the challenge. Modern hackers have a different intent
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altogether, there is a huge black market for personal and corporate data and the financial gains that can be had by exploiting are enormous. They are becoming more and more sophisticated in their attempts to monetise the crime.” he said.
It was also about the accelerating speed of the threats and response times. “The speed at which bad guys are moving is increasing and the speed at which we as a security industry have to move and stay one step has to increase with it. We are seeing the first wave of dedicated attacks going after smart phones. Organisations have to suddenly work out what data they are going to allow onto those devices and how they are going to protect their corporate assets when they are mixed up with all of the personal information that sits on those same devices.” said Andy Dancer, Trend Micro.
It is clear that technology partners are, and have been, ready for the fast moving trends around mobility, access and smart devices. “Organisations need to adapt policies to absorb consumer devices into the workplace”. It is clear there is no
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getting away from this trend.” said Paul Fisher, SC Magazine.
Nick Baglin agreed: “Organisations have to find a centralised policy to let users bring them in, or buy their own, and they need to make them as secure as they can.” he said.
The topics of Web 2.0 and social networking came up. “Delivery of content now comes from Web 2.0 sites Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In as well as email delivery. The end result is that data may well leak out of the organisation and solutions need to be holistic to protect it in that environment.” said Neil Mitchell- Hunter, Websense.
In addition, the enabling of businesses through access is a key factor. John Allen of F5 is focused on ensuring “users of applications get seamless access”.
Many partners would agree that with the trend towards multi vendor solutions, there needs to be a central dynamic point of control for application delivery and monitoring. In order to do more with less, businesses need to connect security together to make it more efficient.
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