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IT Security: When will we know if what we are doing is really working?
Presented On: Tue Oct 6, 2009
Clint Kreitner, Senior Advisor and Founding President/Chief Executive Officer
The Center for Internet Security
In his presentation at the October IT Security Summit, Clint Kreitner, Senior Advisor at The Center for Internet Security (CIS), discussed the need for the information security community to come to a consensus on what constitutes success and how to measure it. In addition, Kreitner addressed the need for a feedback learning loop to enable measurable and continued improvement in protecting information.
Kreitner states that although there is a lot of money being spent in information security, there is a lack of ability to answer questions such as:
• Are we more secure than we were last year?
• Are we spending the right amount on security?
• Which of our security investments are yielding the most cost-effective results?
• How do we compare to our peers?
Kreitner states, “Currently, much of what we are doing in security involves risk assessment scenarios that hypothesize what various outcomes might be.”
DBAs and Developers
Presented On: Tue Sep 22, 2009
Buck Woody, Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Buck Woody, a SQL Server Technical Specialist discussed the conflicting environment between DBAs and developers. According to Woody, this conflict is divided into three main categories which include:
• Conflicting requirements
• Conflicting Customers
• Conflicting Ideologies
Cloud Computing
Presented On: Thu Nov 5, 2009
Dale Seavey,
Cisco Systems, Inc.
At an IMF web forum, Dale Seavey, Director of Architecture Design and Engineering at Cisco IT offered insight into cloud computing and stated that it is part of the responsibility of IT professional’s to take away the veil of uncertainty around the cloud concept.
At Cisco, Seavey and his team are responsible for setting the computing direction for the IT organization for the next three years and putting actions in place that will help them accomplish the initiatives they have established. The three fundamental design pillars determined by the group include:
1) Immediacy
2) Smaller computing platforms
3) User experience being key while computing environment and platform are irrelevant.
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