Enterprises can rise to the very peak of their goals and expectations when they have the highest levels of Threat Protection, Information Protection and Cloud Security firmly in place.
That was the overriding message to emerge from the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit (13–16 June 2016 at the National Harbor, MD), which homed in hard on the ‘hot spots’ that are challenging businesses right now.
The summit lived up to its promise to provide the proven practices and strategies that are needed to maintain cost-effective security and risk programs to support digital business and drive enterprise success. Its theme was to build the trust and resilience needed to seize opportunities, reduce risks and deploy new security models.
It was a rallying cry not only for those attending the summit, but for all enterprises committed to protecting their operations without compromise. Here are some of the highlights from the key sessions:
THREAT PROTECTION
Session: ‘Top Security Predictions 2016’
- Through 2020, 99% of vulnerabilities exploited will continue to be ones known by security and IT professionals for at least one year
- By 2020, a third of successful attacks experienced by enterprises will be on their shadow IT resources
Session: ‘Security Vendors That Midsize Businesses Love’
- Security is consistently in the Gartner CIO survey's top-ten technology priorities for midsize enterprises
- In surveys, security is always listed as a primary challenge in the midmarket YoY
INFORMATION PROTECTION
Session: ‘Enterprise DLP Magic Quadrant Review’
- Top 3 reasons to implement DLP:
- Regulatory compliance
- Intellectual property protection
- Data visibility and monitoring
- By 2018, 90% of organizations will implement at least one form of integrated DLP, up from 50% today
Session: ‘Understanding and Implementing Security in Office 365’
- Built-in data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities in Office 365 is basic and lacks enterprise features
- Gartner recommended the audience to strongly consider other vendors’ DLP solution to replace the built-in Office 365 DLP solutions
CLOUD SECURITY
Session: ‘State of Cloud Security 2016’
- Security remains the top concern for organizations planning to use public cloud services (63% of respondents)
- Gartner position – Visibility is the greatest cloud security challenge
- Insights into the cloud instances
- How to ensure control
- How to monitor continuously
Session: ‘How to Be Secure in Amazon Web Services’
- Gartner reminded the attendees that security in the cloud is a “shared responsibility” and warned the audience not to imagine that Amazon will fix all their broken security.
The Gartner event also included a session on next gen endpoint, where the message was that, despite years of effort and money spent protecting endpoints, they remain susceptible to mass propagating and sophisticated-targeted attacks. At least 40% of organizations are still getting infections that require manual intervention to remediate.
Symantec Acquisition of Blue Coat Announced
With endpoints such a major focus, it was timely that Symantec’s $4.65 billion acquisition of Blue Coat was also picked up on at the summit. The analyst community viewed this news as a positive move for both companies. According to IDC, this move could create an information security powerhouse by integrating Symantec's advanced endpoint, email and data protection portfolio with Blue Coat's Web security, cloud security and security analytics for specialized threat analysis and protection.
Read more about the acquisition here.