The Security & Continuity one day event
2007 will provide insights from top IDC analysts
and industry partners including Microsoft,
VeriSign, Novell, Trend Micro, Finjan and
Entrust.
Chris Gatford from Pure Hacking will present
from a professional hackers point of view
and showcase how hackers can infiltrate
your system and what you need to do to stop
this threat.
Industry gurus will share their insights,
showcase the latest offerings and solutions
in the market, as well as answer the enterprise's
most pressing questions.
Security continues to be a priority for
Australian organizations and remains on
the top 10 list of concerns of CIO and IT
managers.
• In a recent IDC survey close to
70% of respondents are still not confident
in their organizations IT security and 52%
believe that they need to do more to ensure
the security of their organisations.
• Whilst Viruses, worms, spam, phishing,
and spyware remain the top security threats
respondents’ face. It is the increasing
sophistication of these threats will be
a key challenge for organisations.
• Main challenges in battling these
threats include budget constraints, keeping
up with the number and sophistication of
attacks, lack of skilled staff, and keeping
the security posture up to date.
• Of the surveyed organizations,
only 23.4% indicated that they intend to
increase their security budgets in 2006
and 55.3% that the budget will remain the
same. Therefore a major challenge for organisations
will be to be to battle constantly evolving
threats with limited access to security
budget.
• Customers should look for vendors
that can address these concerns with cost
effective, easy to manage solutions focusing
on low total cost of ownership (TCO) and
strong platform integration.
• Spending on security solutions
in Australia was over A$845 million in 2005
and is predicted to reach over A$1.3 billion
by 2010, increasing at close to double-digit
compound annual growth of 9.8%.
IDC’s Security Analyst, Patrik Bihammar,
will discuss the implications of these and
the latest security market trends at the
IDC security event at the Westin Hotel on
Tuesday 17 April 2007.
- LIMITED SEATS
For many years, IT security discussions
were dominated by virus outbreaks, keeping
script kiddies out of corporate networks,
and basically having updated backups. But
today's threat landscape has changed. Corporate
security threats have become more multifaceted,
networks have become more open, and hackers
are becoming targeted, better and faster.
To make matters worse, the roles of IT infrastructure
engineers and security managers have become
broader with increased responsibilities.
Different stakeholders have different demands
such as:
• Senior management wants to hear
about practices that contribute to the firm's
success.
• External customers, suppliers, and
partners want protection as well.
• Compliance officers want to move
beyond satisfying legal regulations and
focus on internal intellectual property
protection and other issues. And the costs
of these efforts are increasing!
Decision makers
need to put a security strategy in place
to make the enterprise resilient and prepare
for tomorrow's challenges in a cost-effective
manner.
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