Upcoming: IT Security Threats Roadshow

IT security threats such as intrusion attempts, malware, spam and phishing attacks, and other vulnerabilities, and how organizations can manage these threats will be the topic of discussion at Thursday’s [Dec 2] Security Services Roadshow hosted by BCS, IBM’s local agency.

The event, to be held at the Elbow Beach Hotel will feature a presentation from IBM’s Security Services Lead, Rick Young, on the 2010 IBM Security Trend and Risk Report.

This report, produced twice per year, provides statistical information about all aspects of threats that affect Internet security, including software vulnerabilities and public exploitation, malware, spam, phishing, web-based, threats and general cyber criminal activity. It is intended to help corporations, and the public at large understand the changing nature of the threat landscape and what might be done to mitigate it.

Rick Young will also provide an overview of IBM’s IT security services offerings that assist businesses in integrating security in all processes and applications and in driving down the cost of compliance.

Aaron Smith, BCS’s General Manager states, “According to IBM’s Trend and Risk Report findings, reported vulnerabilities are at an all time high – up thirty-six percent, and fifty-five percent of all vulnerabilities disclosed had no vendor-supplied patches available at the end of the first half of 2010.”

“Based on these findings, it is important for organizations to ask themselves how confident they are that they are protected from vulnerabilities before a vendor supplied patch is available. They also need to think about what other vulnerabilities do they not know about – for example Data Loss – how much confidential data is being exported out from behind their corporate firewall? All these questions and many other security issues will be addressed at this session.“

The breakfast session will take place at Elbow Beach Hotel’s Paget Suite on Thursday, December 2nd from 8:30am to 11:30am. Anyone interested in attending can reserve their space by sending an email to Celina Florendo at celina@bm.ibm.com or calling 298-1298.

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