Mr. Samir Shah
CEO
Cyberinc 

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Thank you for joining us today Samir. Before drilling down into Cyberinc solutions, please tell us about your background. And, may we also have a brief corporate history of Cyberinc, an Aurionpro company?

Samir Shah: Thank you for inviting me. It’s my pleasure to talk to you on this platform. My background is in technology innovation primarily around Banking/FinTech and Cybersecurity for better part of last two decades. As Aurionpro group, we have been on a mission to help businesses accelerate digital innovation securely. Thus we focus on Banking, Digital and Cybersecurity solutions.

We formed Cyberinc by combining Aurionpro’s Enterprise Security Division, that focused on providing IAM solutions with Spikes Security, a Silicon Valley startup that created first web malware isolation product. Combined subsidiary, Cyberinc, thus helps address two key challenges that CIOs today face – 1. Who has access to what at all times and 2. End-point security from increasingly sophisticated, web borne, malware attacks.

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: One will read on Cyberinc.com that, “Our flagship product offering, the Isla Malware Isolation platform can help deliver 100% web freedom from web based malware attacks and our comprehensive IAM solutions have secured over 100 million identities for world’s leading corporations in the last 20 years.” This is indeed quite impressive! Please give us an overview of Isla Products and Isla Technology.

Samir Shah: Isla represents an entirely new approach to cyber security.  Until now security solutions have always been based on detecting “bad things” and blocking them from running. Anti-Virus tries to detect “bad files”, Web Filters try to detect “bad websites”, the list goes on and on.

Isla takes a different approach to the problem. Instead of detecting “bad” things, Isla simply isolates ALL web content in a specialized environment located outside of an organizations sensitive network.  Since ALL content is isolated no attacks can ever “slip through the cracks” and compromise the user.
This is a simple, yet powerful approach. Since organizations vary so widely, Isla is offered in a number of ways to suit each potential customers’ needs. Isla can be deployed as an appliance directly at a customers’ office, it can be deployed in a customers’ existing cloud data centers or it can be delivered as a pure Cloud service by a Cyberinc Isla Cloud Service partner.

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Today’s cybersecurity threat environment has never been more challenging and the recent cyber breach at the CIA disclosed by WikiLeaks was another in a long series of wake-up calls demonstrating how truly vulnerable we are in the private and public sectors. In this climate, Samir, what is your perspective regarding the unique value proposition that Cyberinc delivers to your customers at this time?

Samir Shah: The threats have never been greater and the Wikileaks disclosure is just one example of what we are up against. Long gone are the days of the solitary teenager wanting to make a name for themselves by pulling pranks on unsuspecting victims. We are now up against the full capabilities of sophisticated nation states and organized crime syndicates with sometimes unlimited resources and talent. It is just a matter of time before the cyber-arsenal exposed by Wikileaks is harnessed by the bad guys to steal sensitive information and damage reputations and brands.

Isla offers unique value in that it can defeat hackers, even those armed with the most sophisticated malware available today. Sometimes the most complicated problems require the simplest solutions. Even the most sophisticated malware will fail if it is never able to reach its target and Isla delivers this unique capability in a form that fits any customer’s needs.

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Samir, can we talk about the IOT, BYOD and mobility culture for a moment? Many recent well publicized breaches seemed to initiate with a common flaw…the password, and it’s scary to think about the breaches we don’t know about yet! Please tell us about Cyberinc’s Identity Management Portfolio.

Samir Shah: Effective cyber-security must deal with the two major attack vectors, advanced malware, which we address with Isla, and issues emanating from Unauthorized Access and Social Engineering, which we address with our Identity Management practice. Social engineering is all about fraud and impersonation.

Passwords are still one of the major weaknesses in the cyber security ecosystem and they don’t have to be. The technology needed to bolster, or eliminate passwords has existed for many years now. At Cyberinc, we have been providing and implementing IAM solutions for over a decade now. Solutions range the full spectrum of the IAM stack from consumer identity to provisioning and governance on one hand, and access controls, single sign-on and fine grained authorizations on the other hand. We work with various global partners to provide value add to their solutions and ultimately implement them for large customers with complex environments and IT infrastructure.

Mr. Martin Heisig
Senior Vice President
Cloud and Infrastructure Delivery
SAP SE
www.SAP.com

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Thank you for joining us today, Martin.  Before discussing SAP cloud delivery and data center solutions in greater detail and the upcoming  FORECAST 2014 please tell us about your background.

Martin Heisig:  I am the head of SAP’s Infrastructure Services Organization and responsible for SAP’s global IT infrastructure including the operation of SAP’s external cloud offerings. The SAP Cloud offering includes for example Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions (Success Factors, ARIBA, HANA Cloud Platform) as well as comprehensive cloud infrastructure combined with managed services for global enterprise customers (SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud).

This role combines also responsibility for SAPs office and workplace equipment, backend systems, data centers, network and WAN infrastructure as well as SAP system management for SAP’s business, development and training & demo environment.

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: May we have an overview of the key trends and highlights SAP will be discussing at FORECAST 2014?

Martin Heisig:  The mega trends real-time platforms, big data, cloud, enterprise mobility as well as social media continue to enable completely new business scenarios. In a tectonic shift, we witness how our most innovative customers reinvent their business models and processes by using in-memory technology, like SAP HANA. The world goes real-time across entire industries and in the private space.

As head of the HANA Enterprise Cloud delivery function, I foresee that more and more companies will move to the cloud, and that we will see a leap in software, infrastructure and platform as services. Customers have existing environments and want to add Cloud solutions to that. So, the reality for most of these companies is a hybrid Cloud environment. Or they move their enterprise systems into private Clouds, for example the HANA Enterprise Cloud. Security and process integration will continue to be big issues, and this is something at which SAP excels. Whatever the strategy, CIOs have to address both agility for the business and cost. The Cloud is a major factor in this equation.  More

Mr. Mr. Jason Waxman
General Manager
Intel
www.intel.com

Jason Waxman: In traditional IT environments, IT infrastructure sits behind the organization’s firewall and equipment that may be virtualized, or partitioned to handle multiple applications on a single servers, are typically dedicated to a specific line of business. IT professionals can choose fro an arsenal of mature security tools that give them a high degree of control over the security environment and the organization’s compliance with regulatory mandates. With cloud infrastructure, servers are typically virtualized and shared across multiple lines of business or even among multiple organizations rather than dedicated to specific lines of business. When IT wants to link multiple cloud data centers together to gain efficiencies—the tools to secure this far-reaching infrastructure are still evolving. This lack of visibility – even in private clouds that are behind a company’s firewall - have people concerned because they no longer have dedicated equipment for their line of business and instead are using shared, multi-tenant resources. This is why 61% of IT that were surveyed are concerned about having less control and visibility over these shared resources, even in a private cloud. Intel and McAfee are working to address these challenges and advance security solutions for cloud services.