What are the top hot topics around Information Security?
Data Protection is a hot topic for 2011 and 2012, a survey taken at our Information Security Executive Summit in 2011 came out with very clear results as to what the key issues faces CISO and CIOs of enterprise organisations.
95% of respondents stated that Data Protection and Risk and Compliance were the top areas of interest.
Increased use of social media is heightening the issue with the Irish data protection commissioner today recommendeding widespread changes to improve privacy on Facebook. Consumerisation of IT is also a topic on the minds of CISOs with increasing use by employees of external devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and even Google mail, Linked in and Twitter.
We will be looking at these challenges at the Information Security Executive Summit in February where Simon Rice Principal Policy Adviser at the Information Commission’s Office will be discussing how mobile devices and the cloud allow for greater flexibility in the workforce but present different challenges in ensuring compliance. The Data Protection Act requires data controllers to take appropriate measures to protect personal data but how can they achieve this whilst still maintaining a mobile and flexible workforce? Can the controls applied within the corporate network be extended across the internet to mobile devices and cloud services?
Other top interest areas include Identity Access Management at 88% and Virtual Infrastructure and Cloud Security closely following at 77%.
Find out more about the 2012 Information Security Executive Summit here.
