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The latest in Enterprise Security showcased at HP DISCOVER Vienna

by Info_Security on 12-07-2011 10:32 AM

By Wayne Glenn, EMEA Marketing Manager, Enterprise Security Services

 

CIMG0017small.jpgThe first thing that hits you when arriving at HP Discover Vienna is the sheer scale of the event.  Spanning 3 football pitches, most HP products and services were represented which enabled you to visually quantify the breadth and depth of the HP portfolio. 

 

Meg Whitman really contextualized how important information and security is to the new HP strategy.  Meg called these “Make it work Solutions”  in which by HP is uniquely positioned to combine products and technologies in a holistic way to help customers turn challenges into opportunities to, in turn, build competitive advantages. 

 

This is also a theme picked up by Andrzej Kawalec (CTO, HP Enterprise Security Services).  In his presentation “Advantage through Security”, Andrzej focused on the importance of balancing security vs. enablement to unlock competitive advantage.  This along with the HP Risk Based Approach to security resonated with the audience who were also keen to hear the HP view of the changing threat landscape, disruptive technology trends and the tough working environment faced by security professionals.  A nice touch was Andrzej picking out some thought provoking stats, such as less than 1 in 3 executives thought their infrastructure was well defended against threats and 44% of all data breaches involved 3rd party mistakes.  This sparked interest from even the more generalist IT execs in the audience.

 

Richard Archdeacon (Strategy and Technology, Enterprise Security Services) took the line of emphasizing the importance of detecting and preventing in order to effectively manage enterprise security risk in his presentation “Governance, Risk and Compliance -Are you under prepared or over investing?”.  Richard also introduced two concepts to the Discover audience.  The first, the concept of creating a “Community of Purpose” as a culture and mechanism to manage information security.  The second, the 6 layers of information assurance (strategic direction, programme management, risk analysis, business continuity, issue resolution and detection and action) which in our changing security environment, now requires an effective and regular communication flow between the layers. 

 

Richard ended with a well received view on the HP security workshop, HP analytics tools and offerings HP ESS have to report on how security across the enterprise impacts risk. 

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  • After graduation from Oxford University, Paul developed laser technology for NASA satellites, before moving into IT Security at Cable & Wireless in 2000, where he led the development of Internet Security Services. In 2005, Paul joined Vistorm, now HP Enterprise Security Services, as a Security Architect, where he is technical lead for mobile device and endpoint security solutions. Paul is CISSP and ITPC certified, is a CLAS consultant and M.Inst.ISP. He has recently completed the MSc Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of London.
  • A business first, senior executive, with over 20 years of hands on experience in defending banks, governments and corporations against cyberwarfare. My career in security started when I was employed to crack a secure system, which had locked down the boot process, whitelisting of applications and encrypted disks. I linked TeamOffice (an ICL email and collaboration system) with Microsoft Word to send an email which allowed me to do anything the person reading the email could do and send the results back to me, all without there knowledge. Having proved this vulnerability, I worked with Peter Simpson to create Defuse, a tool that blocked inappropriate actions. This successfully blocked Winword Concept, the first known malicous code in the wild. From these begginings I have investigated all aspects of security to provide an holistic approach to security as a business enabler and currently advising organisations on the suitability of the cloud to their needs.