Stree Naidu, regional vice president, Tumbleweed Asia-Pacific and Japan
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Q: What was the biggest thing that affected your company this year?
Tumbleweed's merger with Axway is the largest significant change for the company in 2008. Axway is provider of B2B collaboration, managed file transfer, and integration, and Tumbleweed provides content security for email, identity validation and managed file transfer, so our offerings are complementary.
Is all this news about the recession next year expected to affect your business?
During a recession, businesses cannot afford to stop spending on IT security so we are expecting business as usual, if not better. We have not seen spending dip in the security side of the business.
Data leakages in an organization will prove to be disastrous for business credibility, hence there is a real need to stay vigilant and look to cost-effective, scalable solutions that offer both front and back end protection against incoming and outgoing threats. Regulatory compliance is set to be a major focus for enterprises, as governments in various markets step up and tighten their policies.
Due to governmental regulations, changing market conditions and the need for a competitive edge, there has never been greater demand for transparency, integration and collaboration. Every major enterprise must transform fundamental business processes to become a collaborative, enabling interactions inside and outside the enterprise to deliver competitive advantage.
The biggest challenge facing IT departments is...
...keeping up with new threats, as a task that their current technologies are unable to handle. For example, spam delivery methods and content have evolved faster than their filtering solution technologies, such that the blockers are growing less effective with time. The rise in image spam and junk mail takes a serious toll on an organization’s bottom line. Message delivery times, storage capacity needs, bandwidth constraints, and user complaints are high on the list of problems that arise when spam overloads a messaging system.
The bottom line is, when a problem occurs with email or a problem arrives via email, most companies aren’t covered beyond the basic solution that they have in place. And increasingly, the basic solutions aren’t flexible enough to handle new threats.
To achieve regulatory compliance and avoid risk, companies must institute thorough outbound mail scanning and encryption. In order to avoid IT overload, a situation commonly faced by organizations, these security solutions must be easy to configure and manage.
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