Five Ideas: Security

Top trends for 2013

From February 25 to March 1, Oracle experts are exhibiting at the RSA Conference 2013, a premier security conference that gives attendees a chance to learn about IT security's most important issues through first-hand interactions with peers, luminaries, and emerging and established companies. Here, find out more about what Oracle executives will be presenting at the RSA Conference, plus hear about other security trends every business leader need to know about.

“According to the 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 94 percent of all data compromised involved servers. So the real risks are against applications, data, and the infrastructure. The report also states that 97 percent of all breaches were avoidable through simple or intermediate controls. So the question becomes one of how to protect critical assets at the many different layers where data resides.” —Graham Palmer, director of information security for Oracle's EMEA operations

“The challenge of mobility requires authentication services. This, in turn, drives the need for portable identity, which, finally, drives the need for identity management as a service. So these four trends are driving the move from identity management silos to increasingly centralized systems.” —Vadim Lander, Oracle's chief identity architect

“Mistakes are costly for any business. And with the advent of datafication, where single systems are carrying more and more responsibility for the business, they're becoming even costlier.” —Paul Vallée, executive chairman and founder of Pythian

“Despite growing threats and enterprise data security risks, organizations that implement appropriate detective, preventive, and administrative safeguards are seeing significant results.” —Joseph McKendrick, analyst, Unisphere Research Insight and co-head of Oracle’s Global Business Intelligence and Exalytics Strategy Pillar

“Organizations really need to revisit how they actually prevent access to data— data that's stored in databases, on files and sitting on disk. And ideally you want to be able to do this at the database level.” —Willie Hardie, vice president, Oracle Database Product Marketing