In today's hyper-competitive markets, the concern over network security have moved out of the exclusive realm of IT and have become an operational priority that many chief executives and senior managers are focused on now. While the IT organization retains the primary responsibility for warding off network intrusions, the impact of any attack is felt throughout an organization today – both in the direct costs of repairing the damage, and in the indirect costs which are incurred when corporate resources are “down” and core business goals simply can’t be forwarded. The problem for all of us is that these security incidents are getting worse, and fast. Attacks are getting more sophisticated and networks are becoming more complex. As more of business moves on-line and internal processes are tied together, the cost of an intrusion is jumping dramatically. More operations, employees, and profits are affected. To make matters worse, network threats have moved from predictable front door attacks to all sorts of internal and external, wired and wireless, direct and indirect assaults. Whether these are virus or worm infestations, denial of service floods, spyware, or active hacking by individuals, it almost does not matter. “Downtime” means “Out of Action” – your business will lose money, the only question is, “How much?”

Enterprises are settling for unacceptable security as unprecedented number of high-profile security breaches and incidents of lost backup tapes, viruses, spy ware and hacking attacks rises. In U.S. alone, 50 million consumers combined had their personal information exposed, causing potential legal and regulatory action on leading enterprises. In the wake of such high-profile security breaches, Network Appliance shares its visionary uncompromised security initiative, where security solutions need to focus not just on the network perimeter or specific devices and people, but more importantly on data as it is stored and transported across multiple heterogeneous systems. Enterprises today do not have the option of trading off performance, interoperability, high availability, or simplicity when they deploy security solutions. As NetApp shares this vision, customers will learn about best-in-class data management with military-grade security from Network Appliance’s uncompromised security solutions.

In the past decade, the online world has evolved and developed to a state where it is now an important part of our life style and work style. However, many security and privacy challenges like phishing and identity theft, if not addressed, would erode our trust of online systems and information. The trustworthiness of digital identity is one of key aspects in addressing these challenges. This session presents Microsoft’s learning and experiences on the lessons learnt from the past and present in dealing with the many online security challenges, and the concepts of Identity Metasystem as the way forward for addressing the challenges of digital identity.

The shift of paradigm taken by malware advocates has introduced more sophisticated techniques into penetrating end-users secure environment. This presentation will briefly explain the risk and methods taken by financially-motivated perpetrators and what are the challenges need to be known by the end-users. Fortinet is able to provide the process and technology that enables better management of current and future malware attacks thus will result into ideal security enforcement.