IT & Data Security

- Access & ID Management       - Antivirus
- Firewalls                                  - Intrusion Prevention
- Content Filtering                       - Patch Management
- Security Governance

Top 10 Companies

Symantec- John Brigden (VP EMEA)
Checkpoint- Bruno Demonde(VP EMEA)
ISS- Jaap Schmidt (VP EMEA)
CISCO- Jayshree Youall (VP EMEA)
Cybertrust- John Holland (VP EMEA)
McAffee- Mike Dalton (VP EMEA)
RSA- Art Covello (CEO)
VeriSign-Simon Church (VP EMEA)
Trend Micro- Raimund Genes (President EMEA)
Message Labs- Richard Collins (VP EMEA)

Hot Trends

The EMEA security landscape reflects the intra-regional differences in IT adoptions and economic development. Western Europe is continually investing in security whilst developing existing strategies where the rest of Europe is set to continue their catch up spending.
Technology Spending trends show that the traditional security threads such as worms and viruses still command the largest investment.
The IT services market is estimated to grow to €41.7 billion this year. With companies refocusing on revenue growth to remain competitive it is imperative to look at Securing the IT Systems within each organisation.
Widgets, even those created by Microsoft have been found to have poor security features leaving Malware Infections available to spread through websites and host operating systems.
Network protection is key when looking at Web Security but the products of Gateway Security are thwarted by performance and scalability limitations. It is imperative to improve on and develop these products to ensure secured networks and systems and also maintain working efficiency and security.
High Profile data breaches are one of the jey areas of threat for many companies across Europe today-physical loss of equipment, theft or loss of data are the most common forms of intrusion- 46% of all data breaches are of data storage systems.

Contributors

Richard Cross- CISO Toyota
Richard Hackworth- Head of Group IT Security HSBC
Dr. Paul Dorey- CISO BP
John Sharif Adebayo- Security Risk Director UBS Warburg
Almira Ross- Group Security Advisor Prudential
Andrew Yeomans- VP Global IT Security Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
Jill Treblicock- Head of Data & Information Security BBC
Peter Sany- CIO Deutsche Telecom
Peter Dew-CIO BOC Group
Nathalie Irvine- CIO D’Assault Systemes

Associations

ISC2- Howard Schmidt (Chair)
ISSA- Dave Cullen (Chair)

Top 5 Events

InfoSec Europe- 22nd – 24th April
RSA Conference- 7th-11th April
CSI SX- April 27th- May 2nd
IntrusionWorld- 14th-12th May
2008 TechnoSecurity Expo-June 1st-8th