Disruptors on Security Disruption: The End of the World as We Know It?
Abstract:
For as much as we’ve talked about sweeping changes in IT over the last several years, what has gone before may be nothing compared to what is coming. Cloud computing, for example, has already transformed the nature of the data center, with nearly two-thirds of all enterprises embracing SaaS and a majority of organizations now adopting public Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings in 2016 according to 451 Research estimates. That’s not to say this revolution is not without its concerns. Not surprisingly, data security ranks highest among 451 Research respondents. While many security advantages come with a third party’s dedication to protecting its customers’ (and its own) interests, there is also a palpable sense of lost control among those customers (“Our cloud provider would tell us” is the primary way that the largest number (50%) of all respondents to a 451 Research study indicated they would know if their cloud solution had been breached). Regardless, technology marches on. The progression of cloud from virtualization to IaaS, PaaS and SaaS has led to further abstraction via containers and microservice concepts that are still maturing – yet we have already moved on to a world going “serverless.” With the deployment of connected devices that could number into the billions within a few years, we have also created an “exposure explosion” in IoT that has proved trivial to exploit and turn into the largest DDoS attacks ever seen, breaking the 1 Tbps threshold in late 2016. What could this power mean to attackers that have increased ransomware attacks fourfold in 2016 according to the US govern- ment, and what new targets are exposed? Advances in analytics, meanwhile, open new vistas for security – but they have come hand-in-hand with the collection of data everywhere that forces a new view of privacy on all of us, while political disruptions threaten the stability of regulatory structures that define privacy requirements across the globe.
Join us as learn from the experience of a panel of seasoned executives and “rainmakers” who have had a direct hand in forging the disruptions that have charted the course of security up to now.
Discussion Topics:
How dramatic an impact will these changes have on security technologies and practices that have defined the industry up to now? Will they tear apart the world as we know it – or will they actually give us a fresh opportunity to start addressing the right things?
What do these changes mean for security technologies? Where will (or should) enterprises need to place their bets going forward?
What will these changes mean for security expertise? What kind of expertise will be required – and do today’s security pros have it? What do these forces mean for the already-difficult problem of sourcing security talent?
What will it take to ride these waves of disruption – and does your organization have it?
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