The industry reflects, looks ahead

By Staff, ZDNet Asia
Friday, March 14, 2008 06:39 PM

Andy Solterbeck, CTO, SafeNet

Andy Solterbeck,
SafeNet
The single biggest issue facing today's CIO/CSO is ensuring that they meet their internal and external audit requirements. To date there have not been real solutions to allow them to meet this obligation without significant cost.

Q. What do you remember as the biggest industry news for 2007, and why?
Solterbeck: Looking back at 2007, I believe the biggest story in wide area networking was the advent of Ethernet as a transport technology in conjunction with the explosion in bandwidth requirements.

Today the sweet spot in networking is 1 Gb on the edge and 10 Gb in the core, and we expect that number to be 10 Gb on the edge and 40/100 Gb in the core by 2009. We also expect that our customers will migrate from Layer 3 IP services to high-speed Ethernet in the core.

Gartner issued a report warning IT heads to prepare a recession budget. What is your view?
While we do expect IT spend overall to decrease as a percentage of revenue, we expect security solutions to go against that trend. We also expect to see consolidation of the vendors that service the security market.

Name three hot technologies to watch in 2008.
Ethernet wide area networking: The cost/performance and simplicity of deployment will drive adoption, while continued enhancement of the standard will allow Ethernet to carry mission critical data.

Enterprise mobile applications: With the continued advancement of standards such as OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform) we expect to see mobile devices emerge as trusted platforms prompting Enterprises to begin deploying mission critical applications to mobile devices.

Enterprise compliance systems: The single biggest issue facing today's CIO/CSO is ensuring that they meet their internal and external audit requirements. To date there have not been real solutions to allow them to meet this obligation without significant cost. We expect to see the initial offerings that automate these requirements to appear in 2008.

Name up to three security trends that IT heads should look out for in 2008.
Application security: We expect to see security embedded into more and more applications, as this is the correct architectural approach. We also expect that these security functions will be managed by security applications servers (such as Hardware Security Modules).

Emergence of Ethernet network security: Due to the inherent complexity and overhead of IPSec we expect to see the adoption of Layer 2 Ethernet security through the adoption of MACsec.

Device embedded security: We expect to see more devices where cryptographic function is embedded in the device, which will in turn lead to the requirement for large scale key management systems.


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