Security ranks as one of the top worries (if not the top concern) of organizations considering cloud implementations. In this session, one of the industry’s top experts will delve into the range of risks when using cloud-based platforms -- from data protection to performance and more -- and will offer critical strategies to mitigate them.

With traditional security transforming to the cloud, enterprises need to plan for cloud deployment using a risk-based, information-centric approach to weatherproofing their cloud.  At the same time, today’s interfaces between the enterprise and service providers are creating new paradigms -- while IT consumerization, virtualization and other technology trends are affecting deployment.  Learn more about how you can prepare in this session.

For many organizations compelled to find efficiencies with the cloud, the first question is, what portions of our IT footprint should we put there? Similarly, what technologies and policies should we implement to mitigate risks? In this session, get some foundational and top-level advice from a CIO well-seasoned with cloud experience.

Join us for these briefings to learn about the latest capabilities and solutions in the cloud security market.

As organizations transition from using more traditional IT infrastructure to a combination of physical, virtual and cloud environments, security remains a key component in maintaining IT asset control across users, data and systems.  In this session, we’ll explore the essential questions and answers that help you determine the best strategy for maintaining security and compliance controls in your cloud environment.  You'll not only learn how to decide what to host in the cloud, but how to segment your data for physical, virtual and cloud accessibility.  We'll also review best practices for implementing a layered security model to meet compliance requirements.

The first step in securing anything in the cloud is negotiating the right contract terms. Get critical advice from a top legal expert in this session and learn how the federal computer crime statute -- the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- can be a valuable tool in securing the cloud.

Join us for this briefing to learn about the latest capabilities and solutions in the cloud security market.

It’s likely that by year’s end, even the largest IT organizations will have developed a cloud technology strategy -- and possibly even executed on one -- that includes public/private cloud evaluation and adoption.  Certified Security Solutions (CSS) – in partnership with Microsoft – has produced a cloud assessment tool that can help organizations decide which applications are the best candidates for public or private cloud architectures, and which ones are better left in-house on physical or virtualized platforms.  This session will feature CSS & Microsoft’s findings, including attributes that make an application a good or poor candidate for public cloud use, the impact of IT requirements on cloud strategy, and systems or processes that organizations may need to have in place to take advantage of the cloud.

As projects to move IT operations and applications to the cloud take shape, IT and security executives must document what is moving where, how it’s being secured, and what additional security layers might be needed. Get key advice on how to build your roadmap in this session.