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Presentations

Sizing up Big Data? Hitting the "V"s

"Big Data" is the latest bandwagon to hit the trail, with vendors bending their product portfolios to get the term "big data" into their marketing spiels. But, what is big data really - and what are the options for dealing with it? ...

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19/10/2012 | Big data.pdf | VIEW

BCS

Advanced IT security intelligence

For a long time there has been a need to gather and store log files for compliance purposes. Early log management products evolved in to SIEM (security information and event management) as their scope was extended to include a broader range of events across a wide range of IT devices from the data centre, across the network to the desktop. Typically, this information was use retrospectively to prepare reports for auditors etc. More recently some of the vendors have souped up their products to enable them to act on data in real time. This enables advanced cyber security protection measures to be put in place that can identity anomalies that may be missed by point security products such as firewalls, anti-malware and data loss prevention (DPL); some are calling this next generation SIEM. ...

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06/09/2012 | Quo - NG SIEM V2.pdf | VIEW

McAfee

Building an open vision for the cloud

This Quocirca presentation was given at Rackspace's Summer Sizzler event in June 2012 and discusses why open cloud platforms are the key to flexible application delivery. ...

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22/06/2012 | Quocirca pres for Rackspace - June 20th 2012.pdf | VIEW

Rackspace

Privacy, compliance and the EU

An update on UK/EU data protection including the growing pressure to disclose data losses ...

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01/06/2012 | Quocirca for Infosec virtual event - disclosure - June 2012.pdf | VIEW

Infosecurity Magazine

Modern-day NAC

The influx of personal mobile devices in to the work place (or BYOD/bring your own device) needs policy on usage to be enforced. One of the enabling technologies is network access control (NAC). NAC serves to provide real-time visibility and control of all users and systems attempting to access network resources using managed, unmanaged, wired and wireless devices. ...

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30/04/2012 | Quocirca on NAC for InfoSec - April 24th 2012.pdf | VIEW

ForeScout

Cloud Computing: The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly

Cloud computing has been heavily hyped - but what can it really do, and where could there be problems? ...

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02/04/2012 | EIRMA pres March 2012.pdf | VIEW

EIRMA

Don't forget the network

A presentation from the report of the same name, showing how to manage your organisation’s constantly evolving IT network requirements. ...

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04/01/2012 | Quocira - Don't forget the network - Dec 2011.pdf | VIEW

Networks First

A compliance oriented IT architecture for financial services organisations

The number and complexity of regulation of the financial services industry is increasing. A big part of compliance means knowing who has done what on IT systems and that requires effective identity management. This presentation was given in Dec 2012 at an event sponsored by Centrify. ...

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19/12/2011 | Quo - Centrify pres V2.pdf | VIEW

Centrify

The death of the data centre?

The data centre is undoubtedly being stressed as cloud computing and virtualisation come in - but will these technologies cause the data centre to die out? Clive Longbottom presented on the subject at IPExpo 2011 ...

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26/10/2011 | IPExpo October 2011.pdf | VIEW

IP Expo

Impact on the channel of trends in IT

This presentation was presented at Dell's recent channel event in Barcelona, Spain, and looks at how the advent of cloud changes the way the channel will have to deal with their suppliers, partners and customers. ...

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26/10/2011 | Dell channel event Oct 2011.pdf | VIEW

Dell