Due to the global economic recession, information security challenges that organizations face have compounded. In addition to challenges from internal and external IT threats, organizations now have to grapple with constrained IT budgets and international and industry regulatory pressures. Security is now increasingly being correlated with risk and its assessment. It is no longer sufficient for IT functions to ensure security against IT threats – they are now required to ensure the security measures are aligned with compliance and risk management processes within the organization. At the same time, the number and sophistication of threats continues to increase rapidly. As a result, information security is now emerging as a major topic of discussion in the corporate boardroom.
IDC’s IT Security Road show attempts to create a platform where IT functional executives, security vendors and analysts can discuss the information security challenges, assess emerging technologies that can mitigate them and put forth best practices and solutions.

IBM Virtual Server Security for VMware offers integrated threat protection for VMware vSphere™ 4 that provides protection for every layer of the virtual infrastructure, including host, network, hypervisor, virtual machine (VM) and traffic between VMs. The solution leverages VMware VMsafe™ API integration to offer protection that is scalable, isolated, centralized, visible and efficient.

Kaspersky Lab, by focusing attention on the increasing security problems that we encounter when using our smartphones today due to the fast growth of mobile users, warns mobile users of such threats and recommends solutions on how they can protect themselves from them. Lost and stolen devices, data loss, SMS spam and malware directed at mobile devices are listed as the greatest threats targeting mobile devices. Lack of knowledge withing the general public is one of the reasons why cyber criminals prefer targeting mobile devices as ways to make easy money. Let’s see the future of mobile security through Kaspersky perspective.

Last couple of years we increasingly see sophisticated blended and targeted attacks that traditional security solutions struggle to stop and mitigate their impact. These attacks are intelligent enough to target valuable data of individuals and companies. We see increasing number of targeted attacks use trusted web sites so they can bypass traditional security solutions On the order hand, while companies give their users freedom of being mobile they have some technological difficulties to provide maximum security for their users. They need new level of security that is intelligent enough to understand sophisticated attacks while provide hybrid security inside and outside the company. Most importantly these level of security should understand valuable data and stop data leaks by accident, unwittingly or on purpose. During our presentation we will touch these needs and new technologies to address new generation security problems.

The pace of innovation in remote access technology has increased dramatically over the past decade. Mobile devices have proliferated to the point where laptops, PDAs, and Smartphones are increasing the phase-out of traditional desktop PCs. Traditional network boundaries are disappearing, and “the office” no longer has anything to do with any specific physical location. This presentation will focus on the future of remote access, how organizations can provide secure remote access control within the mobile enterprise.

Need to deliver applications to users wherever they are? Let Blue Coat’s Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure help you meet the needs of your workforce. With an Application Delivery Network, you can deliver fast, secure and available applications across your distributed enterprise — all while controlling rising network management costs. The Application Delivery Network is a fundamental IT layer that optimizes and secures the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. The Application Delivery Network combines Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies to give you total visibility and control over user and application performance. As a result, you can deliver the critical applications and information your business needs to succeed in a hyper-competitive, global economy.

Non-vulnerability-based attacks do not exploit any application vulnerability in the application code. Using legitimate application services for malicious activity such as authentication defeat, information theft, and denial of service. Attacks go unnoticed by existing signature-based IPS and other perimeter security solutions. DefensePro™, a real-time Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and DoS protection device protects application infrastructure against known attacks and zero-minute and non-vulnerability network attacks not detected by static signature IPS using behavioral based real-time signatures. Unlike signature IPS solutions, which only protect applications from known vulnerabilities, DefensePro proactively detects and prevents emerging network attacks for which no security patch or signature exists, such as non-vulnerability attacks – on top of standard vulnerability based attacks protection.