Johannesburg, 12 May 2010
IT systems, software, hardware and consulting services provider, Datacentrix, will be focusing strongly on how local businesses can ensure good information security governance and protect unauthorised access, use or changes to their data and information technology (IT) assets at the upcoming ITWeb Security Summit.
Taking place from 11-13 May 2010 at the Sandton Convention Centre, the 2010 ITWeb Security Summit brings together leading international and local security experts and industry innovators, as well as a blue-chip audience of IT and security professionals. Register at www.securitysummit.co.za.
According to Marcus Bossert, security business unit manager at Datacentrix, the company believes that when looking for a potential security solution provider, organisations need to make sure that their solution providers can assist them with a holistic approach.
An information security solution needs to address more than just the pain point; it primarily needs to support strategy and governance objectives. Because the information security discipline crosses traditional IT borders, it is extremely valuable to have a business partner that understands how people, infrastructure, processes, business and office platform applications and security need to work together to deliver the best solution.
"Identifying and preventing electronic fraud is a big challenge for many CSOs and there is a fast growing need for accountability solutions that make people accountable for their impact on corporate information and curbing electronic fraud. This is fundamentally a business challenge that plagues many organisations, and the complexity and pitfalls increase exponentially if you want to hold people legally accountable for their actions and behaviour inside business applications," he explains.
"Datacentrix's approach is to start an evaluation of the most basic levels of asset and governance management. We then classify the real business requirements and priorities to identify and manage the corporate IT environment to maturity. To address the security gaps, we often rely on solutions in the areas of Data Loss Prevention (DLP), vulnerability management and encryption, but the primary focus always remains the customer's business requirements, strategic and governance objectives," states Bossert.
"Datacentrix prides itself on a team of highly skilled and experienced information security professionals and has partnered with leading partners including Symantec, McAfee, RSA, IBM, CheckPoint, FortiNet, Entrust and LAWtrust, to provide best-of-breed solutions that are complemented by industry standards, frameworks and best practises such as ITIL v3, CoBIT, King 3, SANS and ISO 27001 and 27002 to the local market. This ensures that our solutions are cost-effective and that the exact business requirements of our customers are achieved."
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