The biggest problem in information security is that
organisations
approach security in a piecemeal way with point products.
This is according to
Art Coviello,
president of RSA, the security division of EMC.
This means security technologies are not integrated and do not
provide the best protection possible, he told Computer Weekly at
RSA Conference 2009 in
London.
"If the technology comes already integrated, it is much easier
for organisations to implement a true security infrastructure," he
said.
In the past year the industry has made progress towards
integrating technologies developed by multiple suppliers, he
said.
RSA has forged agreements with Microsoft and Cisco to embed
RSA's data loss prevention (DLP) technology in some of their
products.
The company is also integrating its technology in services such
as the credit card information processing service offered by First
Data. The credit card information processing service uses embedded
encryption technology from RSA.
RSA is collaborating with IBM and HP on an encryption key
management standard, the Key Management Interoperability Protocol
(KMIP), which will allow key management to be standardised across
multiple encryption applications.
"These are the kinds of things that will make it more effective
for end users to implement security solutions," said Coviello.
This week, RSA announced a co-operation agreement with Trend
Micro to take feeds from their anti-virus and anti-malware
capability to bolster RSA's anti-Trojan service in its anti-fraud
centre.
"I am proud of the fact that we were the thought leaders around
this concept of an ecosystem of security providers and that people
have latched on to it and said this makes sense, this is the only
way to go about it," he said.
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