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RSA is a division of EMC, the world’s leading information infrastructure company. RSA is used to thinking about IT infrastructure in terms of technology: networks, storage, laptops, servers, applications and databases. But technology is really just an enabler for the real asset: information. EMC’s overall mission is to provide an information infrastructure that enables organizations to better leverage their information. Its solutions help customers to:
- Store it
- Virtualize and automate it
- Add intelligence around it, and
- Protect it.
EMC solutions protect data by ensuring availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery. RSA’s mission, as the security division of EMC, is to secure the information itself.
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Security Leadership
RSA has a long history in information security.
- RSA invented the RSA Algorithm that is the foundation of internet security still in use today. And RSA Labs continues to provide advanced data security research for RSA, EMC and our customers.
- RSA has been driving innovation in the information security industry for over 25 years.
- More than 35,000 companies worldwide are active purchasers of RSA products.
- Our anti-fraud command center has shut down over 175,000 unique phishing attacks on behalf of our customers.
- Today we protect over 250 million user identities on a worldwide basis. These include the online banking customers of JP Morgan Chase, Citibank and Wells Fargo. No other organization comes close to protecting even a fraction of that number of identities.
- Our BSAFE suite is deployed in over a billion products -- making it the most widely deployed software in the world. If you flip over a Playstation console, you’ll see the RSA BSAFE logo. And our technology is in your Blackberry, your cable box, and your internet browser.
- The RSA Conference is the industry’s largest security event worldwide and plays an integral role in educating and connecting security professionals across the globe.
RSA bring all of this experience, innovation and knowledge to the table in solving the world’s most complex and sensitive security challenges.
RSA has long been recognized as the market leader in one-time password authentication with the broadest set of authentication options available. We also offer leading solutions in Data Loss Prevention, Web Fraud Prevention and Security Information and Event Management. No other company has leading products in all four areas, and no other company shares our strategy of integrating these solutions so that they work together.
Current Security Challenges
First of all, the job of a CSO or any IT security professional is really a balancing act. On the one hand, you’re the first person to get fired when regulatory controls are breached, or when customer or sensitive information, such as PII, PCI IP, is not protected, or your brand is tarnished because of a security breach. On the other hand, if you want to be a competitive, entrepreneurial-type organization, you have to make sure that security is aligned with the business -- enabling rather than stifling innovation, globalization , and the development of advanced customer services. And you have to do this in the most productive and cost-effective manner possible. This balancing act isn’t easy and it’s even more difficult with the increasingly complex challenges that you face every day.
Challenge: Increasing Threats
Risks that are changing, growing and getting exploited with increasing efficiency by threats originating both inside and outside the organization.
- From lost or stolen laptops
- To fraud
- To privileged user breaches
- To lost or stolen backup tapes
Some of the threats are malicious, some are unintentional, but they’re all costly to your organization.
So how do organizations address these challenges today? With an abundance of point tools from a range of vendors applied independently across the infrastructure – AntiMalware, DLP, Disk Encription, Adaptive Auth., and on and on. Consequently, companies have built a leaning tower of security that’s on the brink of collapsing. IT teams have hundreds of places to go to implement policy – which takes a lot of resources. And often the same governing policy is implemented in different ways, by different people. These point products miss significant risks and threats because they only see their part of the equation, and are limited to the kinds of analysis they can perform. There’s no way to get a holistic view of risk, and compliance reporting ends up being an enormous task using up far too many of your scarce resources. With every project a “one off,” the point tool model is fragmented, inefficient, inconsistent and expensive.
Strategy for Managing Risk:
Security can no longer be solved point to point. What’s needed is a “systematic approach,” where products can work together in a manner that:
- enables a more effective process, and
- helps the security and operations team deal with new forms of complexity
RSA believe the approach needs to be “Information-centric,” with a focus on managing Information Risk. At the high highest level, the objective of any security program is a Secure Information Infrastructure.
Simply put that means:
Ensuring that the right people
- Have access to the right Information
- Over a trusted Infrastructure
- Using a process that is easy and efficient to manage
