| On-Demand Webcast with Keynote by Jim Reavis, Co-founder of CSA |
| Death of Security Appliances – Hype or Reality? |
| A Pragmatic Approach to Embracing Cloud Security |
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| Today any employee with a laptop or Smartphone is essentially a gateway to your organization. With an increasingly mobile workforce, these gateways are no longer within your physical office boundaries; they are at Starbucks in the Bronx, in airplanes at 30000 feet, and in hotel rooms in Moscow. The proliferation of web applications in the workplace -- especially social media such as Facebook and Twitter – is opening up organizations to a plethora of threats. How are you protecting your users? Or are you spending too much time reimaging laptops? |
| In the past, appliances and VPNs have served well in creating a security perimeter around the enterprise. However, the dynamic nature of today’s web makes their relevancy questionable. Over 100+ public companies including Google, Adobe, and Juniper were recently compromised by Chinese hackers. This begs the question as to whether or not appliances can adapt to evolving threats and mobile users. Or is it time to adapt a new security paradigm such as cloud security or hybrid security? As organizations migrate applications to the cloud, learn from practitioners about leveraging the cloud for improved security. |
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| Speaker Bios |
| Jim Reavis, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) |
| For many years, Jim Reavis has worked in the information security industry as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist and business strategist. Jim's innovative thinking about emerging security trends have been published and presented widely throughout the industry and have influenced many. Jim is helping shape the future of information security as co-founder, executive director and driving force of the Cloud Security Alliance. |
| Jim is the President of Reavis Consulting Group, LLC, where he advises security companies, large enterprises and other organizations on the implications of new trends such as Cloud and how to take advantage of them. Jim occasionally blogs at Risk Bloggers. |
| Jim has previously been an international board member of the ISSA, a global not for profit association of information security professionals and formerly served as the association's Executive Director. Jim was a co-founder of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management, a partnership between the ISSA, ISACA and ASIS, formed to address the enterprise risk issues associated with the convergence of logical and traditional security. Jim currently serves in an advisory capacity for many of the industry's most successful companies. Jim is also a partner with the MetroSITE Group. |
| Jim founded SecurityPortal in 1998 and has been an advisor on the launch of many industry ventures. Jim is widely quoted in the press and has worked with hundreds of corporations on their information security strategy and technology roadmap. Jim has a background in networking technologies, marketing, product management and systems integration. Jim received a B.A. in Business Administration / Computer Science from Western Washington University in 1987 and serves on WWU's alumni board. |
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| Michael Sutton, Vice President, Security Research, Zscaler Inc. |
| Michael Sutton has spent more than a decade in the security industry conducting leading-edge research, building teams of world-class researchers and educating others on a variety of security topics. As VP of Security Research, Michael heads Zscaler Labs, the research and development arm of the company. Zscaler Labs is responsible for researching emerging topics in web security and developing innovative security controls, which leverage the Zscaler in-the-cloud model. The team is comprised of researchers with a wealth of experience in the security industry. |
| Prior to joining Zscaler, Michael was the Security Evangelist for SPI Dynamics where, as an industry expert, he was responsible for researching, publishing and presenting on various security issues. In 2007, SPI Dynamics was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. Previously, Michael was a Research Director at iDefense where he led iDefense Labs, a team responsible for discovering and researching security vulnerabilities in a variety of technologies. iDefense was acquired by VeriSign in 2005. Michael is a frequent speaker at major information security conferences; he is regularly quoted by the media on various information security topics, has authored numerous articles and is the co-author of Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerabilities, an Addison-Wesley publication. Michael holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems Technology from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta. |
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| Manoj Apte, VP of Product Management, Zscaler Inc. |
| Manoj Apte brings a strong track record in network security products. He has over a decade of experience creating architectures for high performance networking and security. |
| Prior to Zscaler, Manoj was a senior product manager for High End Security Systems at Juniper Networks. As product manager of the IPS product line, Manoj created and launched Juniper's 10G IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) appliance that has re-established Juniper as a serious contender for the top spot in the IPS market place. Manoj has been responsible for Juniper's standalone and integrated firewall IPS product lines. Through his 8 years at Juniper, Manoj led teams involved in platform drivers, monitoring, lawful interception, firewalls and intrusion prevention. Prior to Juniper, Manoj was at Pacific Broadband Communications as the lead developer for platform software. He is on the advisory board for the I3P survival and recovery program and a member of the ISA SP99 committee on Industrial Automation and Control System Security. Manoj has 6 patents pending; he holds a Ph.D. in real-time embedded systems from Mississippi State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Technology from IIT Bombay. |
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Jim Reavis
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SaaS Web Security: Cloud Security Alliance Perspective - Jim Reavis, Co-founder of CSA – Keynote
