The Data Connectors Tech Data Conference was relatively informative with forty plus table top exhibitors and eight 45 minute presentations. Presentations – educational without being sales pitches that tended to take up the full 45 minutes. The presenting companies were Bit9, Quest, Arruba Networks, Cyber-Ark, Varonis, Centrify, WatchGuard, Palo Alto Networks, and Axway. If you can spare a day, the conference was pretty informative. You’re not going to get a technical deep dive from the presentations, and you won’t get tech support at the tables, but that’s not the purpose of this conference.
Sound Bytes from the Data Connectors Vendor Table Tops
Palo Alto Networks answered a lot of questions about what they do with apps and whether you do/don’t need a secure web gateway if you have their Next Generation Firewall. Informative booklets on evaluating NGFW’s and Modern Malware.
SonicWall - We’re a Next Generation Firewall Provider, too. Nice demo of the interface.
Unnamed AV vendor (Sophos or Eset) – Felt that one presenter was playing a bit loose with her figures about the percentage of “bad stuff” missed by traditional av/malware software. Informative DLP booklet from Sophos.
Riverbed Technology - Was quite pleased with their latest showing in the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers . Stated that they are moving away from their competitors in the Leaders section and are gaining share. Still waiting for the information requested to be sent to me. I’m going to be "Crying me a river" if I don’t receive it.
Two of the above stated that they stop more apps with their appliance(s) and allow more granularity with more of these apps than their competitor allows.
From Few of the Presentations
Bit9 – Talked about the evolving threat landscape and Advanced Persistent Threats (quite topical for the SF Bay Area since a university in SF, discovered recently that they have been losing data for years. Small companies aren’t immune from attacks as 75% of threats are targeted at them.
Quest – Talked about security in 2012 and presented on some of the ways to boost your IT security. As always, the weakest link are those end users. Things you need to worry about include: managing the use of social media, unsecured vitual machine deployment, and sensitive data in the cloud.
WatchGuard – Presented on their views as to how virtualization is the key to security in the future. The two top hurdles mentioned by companies – cloud security and privacy and compliance issues. Top cited obstacle was budget (who would have thought it?) at 51%.
Tchotchkes at tabletops - As always, way too many pens. Stress figures are remaking an appearance. White papers? Always. Free desktop AV software? Yes. T-shirts – that was a surprise. A couple of flashlights, lots of candy, “branding bags” were plentiful.
Drawings at the end for people who had a card initialed by all vendors contributing gifts to the pool were plentiful and included an Apple TV. I didn’t stay for the drawings. In fact, vendors at tables seemed to be happy seeing someone come up to them with a beverage in hand, not a card for initialing, asking something other than, “can you initial this?”
For details on the 2012 Data Connectors Tech Security Conference road show (locations and dates)
www.dataconnectors.com
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Friday, November 18, 2011
San Francisco Tech-Security Conference – November 17
It was a full day of talks and a 50-company exhibitor room for attendees at this security event. Presentations were given by McAfee, Cyber-Ark, Axway, Centrify, WatchGuard, Netgear, Blue Coat, Invincea, and Endace.
The slick security award has to go to Invincea. They are a venture-backed software company. They provide desktop security to companies with Invincea™ Browser Protection. www.invincea.com Invincea™ Browser Protection shields PC users against all types of Web-borne threats by moving desktop Web browsers into a controlled virtual environment. Invincea creates a fully isolated browser environment to help deliver PC protection. The product automatically detects and terminates a threat in real time and disposes the tainted environment. It than restarts a new one.
SC Magazine loves the product. Peter Stephenson in the January issue of SC Magazine wrote, “What we liked: Ease of use, small footprint and very creative use of a virtual machine to contain the browser and keep the malware out of the computer” The company also has a Document Protection solution. Invincea is still a privately held company. No hints about an upcoming IPO. Let’s hear it for virtual machine technology. This goes well beyond what McAfee SiteAdvisor and AVG LinkScanner offer in protection.
It’s always interesting to talk to vendors while others are running around getting their “qualify for the drawings” card initialed. Some random observations:
Say “NGFW” and security companies will respond “Palo Alto Networks.” Other companies are offering the technology, but for the time being, Next Generation Fire Wall is Synonymous with Palo Alto Networks. They weren’t at this event, by the way, (cheapskates) while Fortinet, Websense, Blue Coat and SonicWall were.
Netgear presentation bite – “Experts believe Scareware is one of the payloads that make attackers the most money.” They pushed the layered defence (sic) strategy. Gartner gives them #1 share in the sub $5k market share and #4 in the sub $25k.
Invincea - “Polymorphics will make signatures obsolete.” “$398B of research has been put at risk because of China and Russia.” “Asking our users to make the correct decision every time is a complete pipe dream.” The presenter also showed a slide from a Cyveillance study showing that F-Secure Kaspersky and Nod32 (Eset) were the quickest for Day 1 Anti-Virus “Effectiveness”.
WatchGuard – Stated that surveys of employees have shown that they spend 3 hours daily, on average, at work on personal related web surfing. Much of their presentation focused on how their product delivers granular web application control.
Axway – Considers using the cloud to perform file transfer still to be not quite fully secure. He also quoted a Ponemon Institute that the average cost of a data breach is $202 per record or$6.6M per breach. They’re in the Leader’s Quadrant (Gartner) for Managed File Transfer, Business to Business Integration, and Email Encryption.
The primary focus of the presentations was on education/knowledge sharing with only a few slides at the end being devoted to product pitches. These presentations weren’t deep dives into the company’s technologies. For the most part stats tossed out were current.
Antivirus, antimalware vendors mentioned as being “under the hood” for different vendors’ products: Commtouch, Kaspersky, Sophos, AVG. Present at the show - Eset (showing some older studies, dudes), Kaspersky, McAfee, and Sophos.
Now About Those Tchotchkes
A marketing professional at a leading edge consumer software company believes that a company's standing on the innovation scale is directly related to the creativity of their tradeshow giveaways. That said – pens, stress balls, more pens, breath mints, more breath mints, an environmentally friendly shopping bag, a squishable car shaped stress ball, a year subscription for the company’s internet security suite, something to clean your mobile phone screen, pens with a blinking red ball at the top.
The most useful tchotchke – Tectia and their aluminum sport water bottle. Winner on the cool scale - some kind of battery power multi colored LED spinning fan “thing”. A quite optimus giveaway by Blue Coat. The most impressive giveaway at the end of the day - a $700 WatchGuard appliance.
The most attended presentation was the last one. Attendees had to be present and had to have had their gift drawing card initialed by participating vendors to be eligible for the drawings. Hence, the occasional mad dash of individuals to get those puppies signed.
About the Organizers
These events are put on by www.dataconnectors.com . It appears that about 50 of these are scheduled to take place in 2012.
The slick security award has to go to Invincea. They are a venture-backed software company. They provide desktop security to companies with Invincea™ Browser Protection. www.invincea.com Invincea™ Browser Protection shields PC users against all types of Web-borne threats by moving desktop Web browsers into a controlled virtual environment. Invincea creates a fully isolated browser environment to help deliver PC protection. The product automatically detects and terminates a threat in real time and disposes the tainted environment. It than restarts a new one.
SC Magazine loves the product. Peter Stephenson in the January issue of SC Magazine wrote, “What we liked: Ease of use, small footprint and very creative use of a virtual machine to contain the browser and keep the malware out of the computer” The company also has a Document Protection solution. Invincea is still a privately held company. No hints about an upcoming IPO. Let’s hear it for virtual machine technology. This goes well beyond what McAfee SiteAdvisor and AVG LinkScanner offer in protection.
It’s always interesting to talk to vendors while others are running around getting their “qualify for the drawings” card initialed. Some random observations:
Say “NGFW” and security companies will respond “Palo Alto Networks.” Other companies are offering the technology, but for the time being, Next Generation Fire Wall is Synonymous with Palo Alto Networks. They weren’t at this event, by the way, (cheapskates) while Fortinet, Websense, Blue Coat and SonicWall were.
Netgear presentation bite – “Experts believe Scareware is one of the payloads that make attackers the most money.” They pushed the layered defence (sic) strategy. Gartner gives them #1 share in the sub $5k market share and #4 in the sub $25k.
Invincea - “Polymorphics will make signatures obsolete.” “$398B of research has been put at risk because of China and Russia.” “Asking our users to make the correct decision every time is a complete pipe dream.” The presenter also showed a slide from a Cyveillance study showing that F-Secure Kaspersky and Nod32 (Eset) were the quickest for Day 1 Anti-Virus “Effectiveness”.
WatchGuard – Stated that surveys of employees have shown that they spend 3 hours daily, on average, at work on personal related web surfing. Much of their presentation focused on how their product delivers granular web application control.
Axway – Considers using the cloud to perform file transfer still to be not quite fully secure. He also quoted a Ponemon Institute that the average cost of a data breach is $202 per record or$6.6M per breach. They’re in the Leader’s Quadrant (Gartner) for Managed File Transfer, Business to Business Integration, and Email Encryption.
The primary focus of the presentations was on education/knowledge sharing with only a few slides at the end being devoted to product pitches. These presentations weren’t deep dives into the company’s technologies. For the most part stats tossed out were current.
Antivirus, antimalware vendors mentioned as being “under the hood” for different vendors’ products: Commtouch, Kaspersky, Sophos, AVG. Present at the show - Eset (showing some older studies, dudes), Kaspersky, McAfee, and Sophos.
Now About Those Tchotchkes
A marketing professional at a leading edge consumer software company believes that a company's standing on the innovation scale is directly related to the creativity of their tradeshow giveaways. That said – pens, stress balls, more pens, breath mints, more breath mints, an environmentally friendly shopping bag, a squishable car shaped stress ball, a year subscription for the company’s internet security suite, something to clean your mobile phone screen, pens with a blinking red ball at the top.
The most useful tchotchke – Tectia and their aluminum sport water bottle. Winner on the cool scale - some kind of battery power multi colored LED spinning fan “thing”. A quite optimus giveaway by Blue Coat. The most impressive giveaway at the end of the day - a $700 WatchGuard appliance.
The most attended presentation was the last one. Attendees had to be present and had to have had their gift drawing card initialed by participating vendors to be eligible for the drawings. Hence, the occasional mad dash of individuals to get those puppies signed.
About the Organizers
These events are put on by www.dataconnectors.com . It appears that about 50 of these are scheduled to take place in 2012.
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