It started with monks.
It started with dancers.
It started with monks that danced.
The first keynotes were today starting with Bill Gates and Craig Mundie from Microsoft followed by RSA (a division of EMC) and Symantec following. Afterwards there was a cryptography panel with leading experts from the field. Namely, those men who spell RSA and Diffie-Helman.
There’s one recurring theme between all of the keynotes. Technology is everywhere and we’re here to mitigate the risk in an “always connected” world. We live in a world where everyone wants instant access through their PC, Mac, *nix box, or mobile device. If the endpoint has little-to-no security it’s our job, as security professionals, to enforce security as best we are able without denying access to the authorized recipient and without disclosing sensitive data.
Security perimeters are no longer defined by topologies and must be enforced through policies. These policies include enforcement of security certificates, PKI, biometrics as well as Network Access Protection or Network Admission Control.
As a security professional for an online retailer I can see my perimeter “blurred” by an always-on mentality. I have vendors that need access to information, users that need access to their data and customers who make purchases on systems that interface with numerous other systems to just display content. There are different layers of security that must be applied to my onion to provide that defense in depth necessary to provide the confidentiality, integrity and availability of my systems to all involved.
The Expo was in full swing and practically bursting at the seams. Food is extraordinarily expensive but tasty nonetheless. Tomorrow is a full day and hopefully I’ll be able to get into another Peer-2-Peer session (today was a session on AJAX and Web 2.0) security.
I wanted to give another shout out to the guys and gals at Splunk (www.splunk.com) and a special cheer to Mike Wilde. Check out his blog for some good SplunkNinja movies!
