Security Innovation

This year marked the Seventh Annual SINET IT Security Entrepreneurs' Forum (ITSEF) at Stanford University. The Forum's theme, Inspire - Innovate - Engage, resonated strongly throughout the day in a collegial setting that fostered robust, high level and energetic dialogue. View highlights from industry thought leaders on this year's forum and the value of SINET.

Mobile, Social, Cloud and Big Data are creating tectonic shifts within industry and government markets that are changing the way we interact with technology. But is the very technology that is empowering also imperiling us? When you think about all the data being generated by the sharing of personal information through the use of social networking and cloud services, as well as the user tracking features on mobile devices, there are tremendous opportunities for organizations to tailor their offerings for customer profiling. What potential abuses of this data do we see today? If you look to the future, what emerging technology trends will magnify the existing risks to individuals’ privacy? This panel will discuss the security and privacy concern by-products that come hand-in-hand with this technology revolution.

The pending Presidential Executive Order relative to Cybersecurity legislation, disruptive technologies, record cash, aggressive new buyers, and attractive valuations are stimulating entrepreneurs in this domain to consider selling their companies in 2013. Many entrepreneurs are taking advantage of this moment--but are you ready? What are the trends and lessons one needs to know? Should you contemplate an IPO or conduct an auction? What actions should be considered when selling to a strategic buyer versus a private equity firm? What is the process to achieve an optimal outcome? Hear from Chad Sweet, Co-Founder and CEO of The Chertoff Group, as he leads a panel of both advisors and entrepreneurs who have successfully navigated the sale process and can share with you their secrets to success.

Terremark and ArcSight had two of the largest acquisitions of recent times:

Terremark went public in March 2007 and was acquired by Verizon for $1.4 Billion in early 2011.

ArcSight went public in February 2008 and was acquired by HP for $1.5 Billion in September 2010.

Join this Fireside chat where these very successful CEOs will discuss and share how they entered the Federal Government market, the lessons learned, understand how to overcome barriers to entry, how to create the appropriate eco-system to successfully deploy solutions, how to best qualify opportunities and how to deal with the Federal Government procurement and acquisition processes. At the end, how they use these experiences to achieve success on the global market.

It took an acronym, BYOD, to focus the market’s attention on the impact mobile had on security and productivity as employees at every level began to Bring Their Own Device to the workplace. Now, both industry and government network security professionals face an onslaught of mobile devices permeating the enterprise and creating havoc.

This panel will discuss the ramifications of this trend and explore the role of technology and policy to contain the threats to security posed by mobility.

Panel:

Robert Rodriguez, Chairman and Managing Principal, Security Innovation Network (moderator);
James Beeson, Chief Information Security Officer, GE Capital Americas;
Jason Hoffman, Head of Group Security, Chief Information Security Officer, Autonomy;
Leslie K. Lambert, VP and Chief Information Security Officer, Juniper Networks;
Mike Siegal, VP of Products, Services and Operations, Mocana

Highlights from the SINET Showcase 2012.

SINET Innovator: Seculert

SINET Innovator: ReversingLabs

SINET Innovator: CipherPoint

SINET Innovator: WatchDox