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The discussion was moderated by Rajneesh De, associate editor, Dataquest, and
saw some serious issues being discussed.
The panelists pondered upon the questions of regulation and what it can do to
promote safe transactions over the Internet. All voiced the need for a
regulatory setup and Singh hit the nerve of the matter when he pointed out that
an ideal security policy should integrate people, processes and technologies.
Various other issues like customer security, nature of transactions, and
integration of security tools, etc, were contemplated and debated upon before
the discussion was thrown open to the audience. Before the end, there was the
obvious issue of recession and its effects on the security investment. And
melodious were the words in which each CIO echoed, in the most definitive terms,
that security is always a top priority and recession or not, investments in that
area are not be compromised or put on a back-foot.
Bangalore
All Against Relentless Attacks
The panel discussion at Bangalore started with presentations by Kaushtav
Dhavse of Frost & Sullivan and Geoff Haggart of Websense. While Dhavase spoke
about how data protection has evolved over a period of time and what has been
the consequence of the nature of the threat when moving from conventional models
to the models that exist. Jeff Haggart shared his view on how Websense has
changed over the years into a Web security company and also elaborated on some
of the security trends across the enterprises. Earlier, Sudesh Prasad, associate
editor, Dataquest gave the opening address.
The participating panelists in Bangalore included Kaustubh Dhavse, deputy
director, ICT Consulting, Frost & Sullivan; Natarajan, CIO, Hexaware
Technologies; Jawahar Malhotra, CTO, Yahoo! India R&D; Sudesh Prasad, associate
editor, Dataquest; Prasad CVG, CIO, ING Vysya; and Geoff Haggart, senior vice
president, EMEA and APAC, Websense.
Sudesh Prasad started the discussion with a background into challenges that
enterprises are facing in protecting important information. Jawahar Malhotra of
Yahoo! India R&D spoke of how Yahoo! is facing challenges in protecting user
information and the kinds of attacks they are being subjected to. He
specifically mentioned denial of service attacks and even distributed denial of
attacks. Jawahar also said that attacks have graduated from traditional types to
more sophisticated ones like code injection.
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The delegates assembled in Delhi
were assured that notwithstanding recessionary trends, most enterprises are
not contemplating compromising on security investments |
Giving an enterprise perspective, Prasad CVG of ING Vysya talked about the
necessity of Internet banking and how it is a way of reducing transaction costs.
He also agreed with Jawahar of Yahoo! on the new types of attacks and also spoke
about the most frequent attacks like phishing and how the bank deals with them.
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Kaustabh Dhavase, deputy
director, ICT Consulting, Frost & Sullivan; Natarajan, CIO, Hexaware
Technologies; Jawahar Malhotra, CTO, Yahoo! India R&D; Sudesh Prasad,
associate editor, Dataquest; Prasad CVG, CIO, ING Vysya; and Geoff Haggart
of Websense discuss in Bangalore how attacks too have become sophisticated |
Natarajan of Hexaware explained how Web 2.0 has changed the perception of
threats and how his organization is using security policies to protect against
attacks. He is of the view that enterprises can buy a technology but that does
not guarantee protection.
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The august gathering in
Bangalore discuss the security issues involved in the nascent emerging area
of Web 2.0 |
Haggart of Websense elaborated about how solution vendors are trying to keep
pace with the new types of attacks. He also mentioned that there are
organizations that are not adequately protected as new threat activities happen.
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