The unprecedented power of cloud applications has opened up amazing new possibilities for IT organizations, lines-of-business, and users to empower work needs. Whether sanctioned or not, these cloud applications can have a dark side. The rapid pace of adoption has left most security and compliance teams behind. Users, devices and data are now interacting with a variety of new cloud services while entirely circumventing the control of the organization. This has introduced new risk factors for organizations already struggling under the duress of the traditional threat landscape. However, it doesn’t have to be this way – cloud applications and services can be adopted rapidly and securely as Info Security teams proactively build in security for users, devices and data. Please join Blue Coat as we discuss these new challenges and provide practical advice on how these issues can be safely overcome.
Ryan Leonard is a Technical Marketing Engineer for Symantec. Symantec’s recent acquisition of Blue Coat Systems combined the market leader in endpoint, email, and data center security with the market leader in web security and cloud generation intelligence to create the world’s leading pure play security company: the new Symantec Corporation. Mr. Leonard has over 15 years of internet security experience. Prior to joining Symantec, Mr. Leonard was a Sales Engineer for both large enterprises like Palo Alto Networks and Intel Security as well as start-up ventures like Agari and Damballa. He has designed secure networks for corporations such as Discover Financial, AON Corporation and Abbott Laboratories and he has manned the trenches in the battle against Zero-Day threats uncovering new vectors such as the “Murofet” Zbot/Zues variant. Mr. Leonard began his career as a software engineer with Secure Computing working in their DARPA prototype division. His responsibilities included writing type-enforcement components of SELinux for the NSA and designing the user interface of the world’s first NIC-resident firewall for the FBI.