Standalone IT security suppliers will disappear within
three years, as security becomes part of mainstream IT
infrastructure, the head ofRSApredicted
today.
Speaking at the RSA conference, Art Coviello, RSA president and
executive vice-president of EMC, said standalone security solutions
would soon disappear.
“There will be no more standalone security business in three
years. The truth is, the value of security as a standalone solution
is diminishing,” he said.
Traditional security defences were “crumbling under a number of
attacks,” he said, with anti-virus and intrusion detection software
unable to keep up with the torrent of new threats.
“It is time for us to go on the offensive. We need to build
dynamic security into [the] information infrastructure. It is no
longer enough to take an outside-in approach by building a fortress
around our data,” he said.
This means designing security into applications and operating
systems that will recognise and block attackers, and routinely
using encryption to protect key business data.
“Antivirus may soon be a waste of money. That’s not because I
think viruses will go away, but they will attack with embedded
technologies,” he said.
Coviello argued that businesses were increasingly taking a wider
view by focusing on managing risks to their organisations, rather
than striving for better security alone.
That requires a change of mindset by suppliers and businesses,
he said.
“RSA used to be focused on perfecting security. But the world
has changed and we have been listening and learning. Instead of
working to perfect security we should be working to reduce business
risk,” he said.
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