Speaking at IDC - Cloud Security
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 6:35PM | Print Article Last week I presented as an industry expert speaker at the IDC Virtualisation and Cloud Security Conference 2011. The all day event, which included over 120 senior IT and security professionals, focused on the benefits of virtualisation and cloud computing, whilst ensuring appropriate control is maintained through compliance and security. The three main focus areas were:
- How a virtualised environment can be made secure.
- How to ensure critical data is protected with a suitable DLP policy to counter potential internal or external attacks.
- What new threats you will face when adopting cloud technology. Could virtualisation actually provide a safer IT environment?
As always the conference was a great success with some interesting presentations from Intel, VMware, NTT, Intergence and F5. Personally, I spoke about a deployment that I led a couple of years ago, migrating an Enterprise organisation (40,000 users, over 125+ countries) to a new cloud based security service from ScanSafe (now part of Cisco).
During the presentation I outlined the reasons for picking Security as a Service (SaaS) over a traditional premise based security solution, as well as providing details of the design and implementation. I also highlighted a couple of key technical and compliance "watch outs" when considering moving any service to the public cloud. For full details of my presentation please head over to IDC, where videos and slides from the conference should become available in the next few days.
Finally I would like to thank IDC and everyone who attended the conference and I hope to see everyone again soon at a future event.