Enterprise Secured

Global infosecurity studies indicate that enterprises seem to know less about what’s happening to their infrastructures than they would have us believe, and one detailed report—the 2009 edition of the Global State of Information Security (GSIS) put out by CxO Communications and PricewaterhouseCoopers—shows that, more often than not, they don’t even know the causes and culprits behind the breaches and hacks they sustain.

This event is a platform for senior information and communication executives, technology and business leaders, and security heads, to meet and exchange experience, ideas and best practices for rooting out the causes they don’t know about, and removing the problems they do know about.

They are expected to come together and, perhaps, work out the best ways to protect their information security setup at the network, application, data and system levels. Their discussions will include a necessary examination of how effective organisations in the world, Asia and in this country, have been in their enforcement of organisational infosecurity policies through IT governance, and how positive (or negative) an impact they have had on the overall performance of their business processes and in contribution to the growth of their businesses.

At a more granular level, they will zoom in on the specifics of network, application, data and overall systems security, as well as run through the technologies and expertise available on the market—such as, contra-malware (malicious ware) tools, application-level firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and encryption technologies. Also everyone at the event shall be called upon to answer the following question. Why are companies spending more than half (57%) their money set aside for information security to business continuity and disaster recovery, when they can outsource them, directly or indirectly (by farming out their connectivity and part of their infrastructure)?

From thereon the talk of the day shall be about investments in information security, starting with their key drivers: business continuity and disaster recovery, internal compliance, regulatory compliance and digital convergence trends. Each of these will be talked about at length.