RSA Day 2:::Compliance dominates security
Cameron Sturdevant is the executive editor of Enterprise Networking Planet. Prior to ENP, Cameron was technical analyst at PCWeek Labs, starting in 1997. Cameron finished up as the eWEEK Labs Technical Director in 2012. Before his extensive labs tenure Cameron paid his IT dues working in technical support and sales engineering at a software publishing firm . Cameron also spent two years with a database development firm, integrating applications with mainframe legacy programs. Cameron's areas of expertise include virtual and physical IT infrastructure, cloud computing, enterprise networking and mobility. In addition to reviews, Cameron has covered monolithic enterprise management systems throughout their lifecycles, providing the eWEEK reader with all-important history and context. Cameron takes special care in cultivating his IT manager contacts, to ensure that his analysis is grounded in real-world concern. Follow Cameron on Twitter at csturdevant, or reach him by email at cameron.sturdevant@quinstreet.com.
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Regulatory compliance completely dominates the tradeshow floor at the RSA Conference 2007. In the recent past compliance products and services were talked about but not implemented. 2007 is clearly the year compliance comes into its own. Unified Threat Management, access control, application security and all manner of authentication products are still going strong too, which explains why there are over 330 vendors at the show. The place is packed with people peddling security. My take on compliance tools, whether these products are reporting on network usage, end user anti-spam compliance or data extrusion is that they must also help improve IT productivity while aiding in securing valuable resources. If a product can't help streamline IT it isn't really helping to solve a security problem. See what this means for all the forensic tools when I file my report on 2/7.
