Cerberus Network visits IDG SecurityWorld Conference and Showcase

Cerberus Network just returned from the 1 day conference held by IDG World Expo and sponsored by many big names such as Mcafee, Symantec and Juniper.

The conference was held at Grand Hyatt Hotel Singapore on 28 Oct 2005. The key events were the presentation by many outstanding speakers and the showcase of products by the various vendors and sponsors of the events.

The key presentations covered strategies and risk management concepts in the security field. Various statistics of hacking, virus attacks, and vulnerability reports collected from various sources were displayed by the speakers. The factors that affect security implementation, as well as the percentage of adoption and allocation of resources for security according to studies of many companies were also discussed. The Unified Threat Management approach for hardware defense were also introduced, against the context of the conventional network firewall we have today.















The showcase consisted of 2 sections and vendors such as Mcafee, Symantec, Juniper, Verisign and CipherTrust were all out in full force displaying their latest products and technology. One interesting product we found was the IronMail from CipherTrust that actually has the ability to counter phishing, which is rare if not unique among hardware firewalls. The WatchGuard Firebox series was also outstanding with the bright red colored boxes which ranges in both functions and cost. Sophos was there to promote their antivirus software products and were giving away free trial versions, as well as a booklet which we find very informative and suitable general consumption.
Here are some souvenirs you might be able to find at the booth. We missed a few here and there, but this is pretty much all of it.

















In addition there were complimentary back issues of CIO and ComputerWorld. The event ended with the panels of speakers answering a few questions from the public, and then giving away of the various grand prizes including some Mini combo CD players, Nokia N90, Coolpix S1 and other great gifts.