Reflections

IT Security At The Crossroads

  

Art Coviello, Executive Vice President, EMC and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC

 

 

Excerpts from Art Coviello’s keynote today at the 2013 RSA Conference in San Francisco.  

We are at a critical crossroads – the next phase in the evolution of the Information Age with this convergence of Big Data, mobility, cloud, and our social media-driven society. It is past time for us to disenthrall ourselves from the reactive and perimeter-based IT security dogmas of the past and speed adoption of intelligence-driven security. Requirements for this new model include a thorough understanding of risk, the use of agile controls based on pattern recognition and predictive analytics to replace outdated static controls and the ability to analyze vast streams of data from numerous sources to produce actionable information. 

What results is a model based on “Big Data” – our own version of security Big Data.

Security Analytics: The New Model

 

Art Coviello, Executive Vice President, EMC and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC 

 

I love technology.  I like thinking about it.  I like talking about it.  And I love leading the technology company, RSA, that works so hard to be a force for good in our technology world.  In addition, I am lucky to have a parent company, EMC that is a force multiplier, and leading the way to the cloud and Big Data.

Information Security Shake Up: What to Expect in 2013

 

Eddie Schwartz, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, RSA

 

The Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) just released a new special trend report titled, “Information Security Shake-Up” containing predictions for continued cyber security turmoil in 2013.  The report assesses how innovations such as big data analytics, cloud computing, enterprise mobility, and social media are rapidly transforming the way enterprises conduct business, will change the face of IT, and will greatly impact the foundation of information security strategies.   With the accelerated adoption of cloud, social media and mobile capabilities in the enterprise, it is clear that every organization’s attack surface will continue to become broader and more complex, and the enterprise security perimeter will completely dissolve.

Security Predictions For 2013

 

Art Coviello, Executive Vice President EMC, Executive Chairman RSA, The Security Division of EMC

 

It’s that time of year again when I make my bold (“somewhat safe” depending on your point of view) predictions about IT security for the upcoming year – 2013.

The French journalist, novelist and social commentator, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, is the author of the witty expression, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” which, as is almost always the case, sounds much more melodic than the English, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” In reviewing my prior years’ prognostications, that phrase immediately popped into my head. How not to be repetitious when we face many of the same challenges?

Securing the Mobile Enterprise

 

Chris Corde, Director of Corporate Strategy, RSA, the Security Division of EMC

 

We are seeing a fundamental shift in the way IT is consumed, and subsequently secured, and it’s mostly driven by mobile. The recent SBIC report, “Realizing the Mobile Enterprise: Balancing the Risks and Rewards of Consumer Devices,” highlights these shifts.

 “A huge benefit of mobile devices is the user interface…This is simply how people want to interact with IT systems nowadays…” –Dr. Martijn Dekker (SVP, CISO, ABN Amro)

There are a number of trends around mobility that make it a distinctly different and new security challenge to consider: