Sponsor: TippingPoint
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Greg Young, Roark Pollock
Type: Video (24 minutes)
The risk to business continuity continues to grow as the data center becomes the central, strategic location for shared resources and the most complex component of the IT environment. Join two leading industry experts – Greg Young, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Roark Pollock, Director of Worldwide Product Marketing for TippingPoint – as they address the evolving needs around securing the next generation data center.
With the adoption of new virtualization, cloud, SaaS, and Web technologies, the consolidation of business-critical assets into fewer locations is reshaping the data center, placing new demands on network security and seriously undermining the effectiveness of traditional security methods.
So what do organizations and service providers need to consider in order to implement a proactive security model for their high-speed data centers to protect against today’s evolving threat landscape? How do you secure your data center while simultaneously reducing costs, eliminating the administrative burden and dealing with compliance requirements?
In this new program, you’ll learn about:
- Trends for the use of intrusion prevention system (IPS) platforms in enterprise networks
- IPS platforms deployment scenarios in service provider environments
- The importance of deploying IPS
- IPS key benefits
- Important criteria to consider when evaluating an IPS platform
- The evolution of IPS platforms over the next 2-3 years
There’s no question. The data center is evolving and there’s an intensified effort to secure these next-generation data centers. Watch this new program and discover an IPS platform that provides reliability, bandwidth capacity, and best-of-breed security capabilities that can help your company reduce your overall security cost.
**********
About Greg Young, Research VP, Gartner
Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner. His primary coverage area is network security.
Mr. Young has more than 20 years of experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security and was head of IT security for the Federal Department of Communications. He received the confederation medal from the Governor General of Canada for his work with smart card security, headed a large security consulting practice, was chief security architect for a security product company, and headed several large security consulting practices.
About Roark Pollock, Director of Worldwide Product Marketing, TippingPoint
Roark Pollock is responsible for all go-to-market strategies and initiatives.
Prior to his current role, Roark served as the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for MegaPath Inc., a national managed service provider. In this role, he was responsible for all product development efforts and go-to-market strategies including the successful development and launch of 20+ products, including an entire suite of managed security services for SMB and large enterprise customers.
Roark's previous experience includes Mr. Pollock joined MegaPath in 2001 after a year with Covad Communications in product marketing and two years of management consulting with Towers Perrin's Strategy and Organization consulting practice in Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Pollock has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
