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Collaborative security initiatives spark interest at RSA

Greater resource-sharing needed to fight growing cyberthreats
By Network World staff , Network World , 04/10/2008
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SAN FRANCISCO— IT executives who flocked to the RSA Conference this week heard more evidence that enterprise networks are increasingly vulnerable, while cybercriminals are becoming better organized and more dangerous.
An estimated 250,000 computers are compromised every day by botherders, according to Robert Holleyman, president and CEO of the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The number of exploits is seven times higher than it was a year ago, and the cyberthreat is "growing exponentially,'' he said.

While vendors are rallying to improve enterprise security options, no one suggests it will be easy. A number of the 550 speakers at RSA highlighted the need for more industry collaboration to better fight the threats.

Microsoft championed the need for a new generation of secure systems, an idea that the company is calling end-to-end trust. Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, called for industry cooperation to work out what protocols and formats will be needed to create these end-to-end trust systems, which could enable people to establish trust and disclose private information electronically in a manner similar to how it’s done in the real world.

Among the challenges are creating devices with hardware-based authentication, designing operating systems and programs that can talk to other programs about their own trustworthiness, and devising ways of keeping track of where data has been, Mundie said. "We need a lot of work; we can't just do this by ourselves," he said.

Separately, Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC's RSA division, said that security systems have a long way to go before they are intuitive. "Existing security technology ... abounds with failures," he said. "Tools aren't even close to behaving the way that people think."

He called for a "thinking security ecosystem that works across all components of the infrastructure."
Toward that end, EMC highlighted its collaboration with Cisco at the show. The two companies announced plans to do more to combine network security technology from Cisco and data security tools from EMC's RSA division, focusing initially on data loss prevention, data center security, and data encryption and key management.

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