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2012 Third Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study Results

Presented by Dr. Larry Ponemon, Ponemon Institute. Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security.

This timely research indicates that both the cost and frequency of cyber crime have continued to rise for the third straight year. According to this study of a benchmark sample of organizations in the United States, the occurrence of cyber attacks has more than doubled during this period, while the financial impact has increased by nearly 40 percent. This year’s study found that the average annualized cost of cybercrime incurred was $8.9 million. This represents a six percent increase over the average cost reported in 2011, and a 38 percent increase over 2010.

And for the first time, this year Ponemon Institute conducted similar cyber crime cost studies for HP Enterprise Security in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Japan. The findings from these research studies in comparison with the U.S. study will be presented in separate regional webinars.

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Centralizing Compliance Controls: Achieving Scale and Cutting Costs

Marc Blackmer, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Solutions at HP Enterprise Security

Organizations often approach regulatory compliance with one-off projects, deploying a set of controls for each regulation. This approach to enterprise-wide management of compliance can become expensive and difficult to sustain, let alone develop and expand to meet growing demands. This presentation will address how a centralized system coupled with an IT governance framework may be used to achieve multiple compliance regulations and manage them efficiently with a consolidated view across an entire organization.

Top Security Threats and Trends: 2011 Cyber Risk Report

Jason Jones, Advanced Security Intelligence, HP DVLabs

Enterprise organizations have been under security attacks for the past decade, but security events in 2011 have created a ripple effect that will be felt for years to come and will actually start to shift the way we view security. This webcast will highlight the latest threat trends and risks from the new 2011 Cyber Risk Report from HP Enterprise Security and will cover:

• Why a decline in vulnerabilities disclosed may lead to a false sense of security
• How changing attack motivations are increasing security risks
• What the biggest risks to the enterprise were in 2011

 

Assessing Cloud Providers – A Practical Approach from the CSA

Dennis Hurst – Founding Member, Cloud Security Alliance

The business benefits of moving to the cloud are quite compelling, however, with those benefits come concerns. The most significant challenge facing companies that are either moving to the cloud as a consumer or as a service provider is ensuring the security of the services that are provided. The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) was formed to help ease this challenge. The CSA’s guidance is adopted as the defacto standard for accessing the security of cloud providers across the software security market.

While this guidance has helped greatly, there is still the very challenging question of creating a standard set of questions for organizations to ask a provider in order to understand how they have implemented the CSA guidance. This is where the Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAI) comes into play. The questionnaire is a CSA-developed tool for both consumers and providers of cloud services to use as common criteria for determining cloud security.

This hands-on and prescriptive web seminar will review both the CSA guidance and how the CAI can be used in day-to-day business to help companies assess cloud providers. Attendees will walk away with a firm grasp on the questions to ask or to be prepared to answer- whichever side of the cloud equation they are on.
 

The business benefits of moving to the cloud are quite compelling, however, with those benefits come concerns. The most significant challenge facing companies that are either moving to the cloud as a consumer or as a service provider is ensuring the security of the services that are provided. The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) was formed to help ease this challenge. The CSA’s guidance is adopted as the defacto standard for accessing the security of cloud providers across the software security market. 

While this guidance has helped greatly, there is still the very challenging question of creating a standard set of questions for organizations to ask a provider in order to understand how they have implemented the CSA guidance. This is where the Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAI) comes into play. The questionnaire is a CSA-developed tool for both consumers and providers of cloud services to use as common criteria for determining cloud security. 

This hands-on and prescriptive web seminar will review both the CSA guidance and how the CAI can be used in day-to-day business to help companies assess cloud providers. Attendees will walk away with a firm grasp on the questions to ask or to be prepared to answer- whichever side of the cloud equation they are on.