You could tell by the din that the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week is the largest enterprise IT security confab in the world. The fact that several prominent breaches over the last year have shaken the C-suite out of its ostrichlike complacency clearly turned the volume up on this show all the way to eleven. So now money seems to be flowing into IT security like never before, adding to the commotion.
The big question: with all this security gear from the many hundreds of vendors exhibiting at the conference, each trying to get their message heard above the clamor, why do the hackers appear to be winning? Clearly, tools aren’t enough – even when they’re arguably better than ever.
Regardless, the RSA Conference is largely about the tools and technologies – where each tool addresses some corner of the security sphere. Here are my picks for some of the most interesting (in alphabetical order, so as not to play favorites). Are they sufficient? You be the judge.
Read the rest of the article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2015/04/24/cybersecurity-at-rsa-all-about-the-tools-no-trouble/
Intellyx advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, AppDynamics, CA Technologies, and Dispersive Technologies are Intellyx customers. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Image credit: Davide Restivo.
