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“We have seen a lot of traction with e-mail and web security.” Guru Prasad, general manager, networking, FVC

Weapons chest

There is no doubt that the threats faced by healthcare and hospitality are not just on the increase but become more sophisticated almost by the day. In response to this security vendors have to deliver more effective solutions and technologies to assist the IT professional in the battle against malicious attack.

“Across the world there is a major push to move towards electronic medical records, the availability of these electronic records is enabling medical professionals to access these records from wherever they want, they no longer need to be at their desks. What they want is a secure solution so that they are able to log in and get access to it no matter where they are. So a secure remote access solution is becoming very important,” says Sanjeev Gupta, general manager, enterprise business solutions, Nortel.

Fortinet’s Prasetyo discussed his company’s newest security products aimed at the healthcare market. “We are seeing a lot of interest in our database security and firewall products. FortiDB is aimed at database security and is an assessment as well as auditing and monitoring tool for the database. FortiWEB is special firewall built to defend net application servers.”

Guru Prasad, general manager for networking at FVC says that the value added distributor now offers a number of solutions aimed at data leakage issues. “On the data leakage side and the data privacy side we have partnerships with Google where we offer DLP as well as e-mail and web security technologies. On the compliance side we have a product that addresses the data vulnerability as well as the data leakage compliance access control issue.”

When it comes to looking at what products have found, the most traction with users Prasad has seen a mature progression in terms of adoption. “We have seen a lot of traction with e-mail and web security, I think a lot of the leakage and threats that healthcare and hospitality see are from trojans, spams and phishing attacks. The natural progression from that point is towards looking into data loss prevention,” Prasad elaborated.

“Organisations face many blended threats today so they are favouring a unified approach that protects their networks and business users from the blended attacks and technology misuse,” says Chib of Cyberoam.

According to Chib another factor driving the overall UTM security industry today is compliance. “The basic tenet of all compliance acts demands that a security process be in place to guard against unauthorised access, use, disclosure, modification, or interference with system operations. In fact, UTM like Cyberoam makes compliance unbelievably easy as it provides the ability to collect, aggregate, correlate, and report the event data with its on-appliance reporting module,” says Chib.

Obstacle course

Vendors of security products aimed at the healthcare and hospitality sectors admit that there are a number of challenges that they are faced with when it comes to providing solutions to the region.

“The biggest threat is the pace at which they adapt to protecting their network as opposed to the pace at which the threats are emanating. It’s a case of how quickly they can ensure that the data and networks are secure,” says Prasad.

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