Session Overview

New Opportunities with Pervasive Security

Track: Pervasive Security Roundtable
Thursday May/24/2007
14:00 - 15:30

The Internet has been one of the most phenomenal changes in how we now live our lives. From major corporations to B2B, commerce, personal communications and family entertainment, the Internet is now used in a pervasive manner to distribute information on a global basis with literally no barriers (excepting those imposed for political or social reasons in some corners of the world).

While the Internet has changed our lives, the true potential of the Internet is yet to be realized; the next wave of the Internet will come in many flavors. The most obvious change, one that we all individually strive for, is bandwidth and availability. Having seen the power of the Internet, we now want more and want it everywhere. This will spark the evolution of multi-MB or even GB networks to your homes and broadband in your pockets through mobile devices. The world of the Jetsons is nearly upon us. From a security perspective, this is basically more of the same: the need to secure even more assets, value-wise and quantity-wise.

Another evolution of the Internet over the coming years is the use of the Internet to connect a new class of network citizen: the smart, connected device.

This session will explore the opportunities in this new field, and discuss who and how these challenges are to be addressed, and the potential business that can be developed in product and solutions.