CSO

The CSO Executive Seminar Series on Application Security will cover everything you need to know about securing mission-critical applications. It will cover both the technologies you'll need, as well as the policies and procedures you would be well advised to wrap around them. A well-conceived application security strategy involves not only the technology and the manner in which it is deployed – it also places an equal emphasis on managing how that technology is used.

Locking down your data and deploying a solid information security infrastructure is more essential than ever. It's no easy task though. Hardly a day passes by without hearing a story of a data security breach: credit card numbers stolen, personal information lost, a virus run rampant.
Developing an encompassing strategy, determining effective and appropriate policies, finding the right technologies to support your strategy and policies, and properly configuring every aspect of your infrastructure are all major parts of the puzzle. And it's not just external threats. You have to guard the door, so to speak, to prevent breaches from occurring in either direction.

While high profile data loss and data breach events grab the headlines, data loss occurs in other less visible, but no less pernicious, ways as well. Data loss and data leakage encompass many other aspects of securing your business systems, like risk management, monitoring and alerting. Every step of the process is essential to assembling a comprehensive approach to data loss prevention. Any industry that gathers and manages sensitive personal data as part of its business activities must pay careful attention to guarding that data for what it is -- a business-critical resource. It's an ethical imperative. It's a legal imperative. It's a business imperative.