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| On-Demand Educational Panel Webcast - Key Panelist From IDC |
| Is Cloud Security Ready for Prime Time? |
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| Every CIO and CISO is under pressure to reduce the cost and complexity of the multiple security boxes that clutter an organization’s DMZ. Security as a Service (SaaS) or cloud based security seems like a promising answer. But does going to the cloud incur too much risk? Is cloud security right for you or is it only a good fit for SMBs? Are there lessons to be learned from email security that has been widely adopted as a service? |
| This educational webcast brings together a well respected team of panelists from various backgrounds to debate these and many more questions. Unlike traditional webcasts, in this online panel discussion, you will have a chance to ask questions and steer the dialog. |
Panelists |
- Chris Christiansen, Program Vice President, Security Products and Services, IDC – No one knows trends of SaaS security adoption better than Chris
- Head of Security for a Leading Healthcare Company – Hear this customer talk about the risks and rewards of having made the choice of moving their email and web security to the cloud
- Jim Reavis, Founder & Executive Director, Cloud Security Alliance – Extensive experience working with CISOs, with deep knowledge of the drivers and challenges of cloud security
- Michael Sutton, VP of Security Research, Zscaler – With over a decade of experience leading world class research teams and a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance
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| Panelists Bios |
Chris Christiansen, Program Vice President, Security Products and Services, IDC |
| Chris Christiansen is the Program Vice President for IDC's Security Products and Services group. He conducts in-depth primary research and provides insight and analysis on a variety of evolving security markets. Mr. Christiansen delivers critical market intelligence to technology vendors, IT professionals, and the financial community. His areas of expertise include, but are not limited to: firewalls, encryption, anti-virus software, 3A (authentication, administration, and authorization) software, intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment, and security management. |
| Prior to his current position with IDC, Mr. Christiansen was director of IDC's Asset Management service. In this position, he managed the group's research activities, analyzed end-user business issues, and developed IDC’s Cost-of-Ownership model. Mr. Christiansen also worked for IDC’s Worldwide Commercial Systems group, where he followed mid-range vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Siemens, Stratus, and Unisys. |
| Before joining IDC, Mr. Christiansen founded Meta Group’s Midrange Service and consulted extensively with large users on open systems, Internet access, storage management, server consolidation, vendor negotiation, database selection, maintenance audits, software asset management, and systems/network management. Prior to Meta Group, he held positions with Data General, Wang Laboratories, Yankee Group, and Creative Strategies International. |
| Mr. Christiansen is widely traveled and quoted. He speaks at industry conferences in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia/Pacific. Mr. Christiansen’s background of end-user consulting, vendor research, and competitive analysis reinforces his constant emphasis on the customer value. |
| Popular press and trade publications frequently call on Mr. Christiansen. His comments appear in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BusinessWeek, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury, Washington Post, Fortune, ComputerWorld, Network World, InfoWorld, and others. His writings and analysis are seen overseas in Denmark, England, France, Italy, Japan, Latin America, and Australia. His bulletins are translated into Danish, Japanese, Italian, French, German, and Portuguese. |
| Mr. Christiansen holds a Masters of Science degree from Boston University and a Bachelors degree from Millersville University. |
| 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. |
| Andrew Ruddock, Information Security - Integrity at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield |
| Andrew Ruddock is an experienced Information Security Architect with a broad background in large scale enterprise network and infrastructure security architectures, as well as very large scale web hosting environments. Currently, he leads a team of exceptional professionals performing network security solutions research, architecture and implementation at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, a not-for-profit organization in Maryland with 5000 employees. Andrew employs risk-based methodology to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the organization’s information. His current initiatives include web application security, network zoning, secure web gateways and enterprise security information management. Prior to joining CareFirst, Andrew has held the leading role of architect at Data Processing Solutions and TST, Inc. |
| Michael Sutton, VP of Security Research, Zscaler |
| 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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| Featured Panelists |
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Chris Christiansen
Program Vice President
Security Products and Services
IDC |
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Jim Reavis
Founder & Executive Director
Cloud Security Alliance |
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Andrew Ruddock
Information Security - Integrity at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield |
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