IDC Security Roadshow aims to close gap between awareness and practice

Running from mid April though May and stopping in six key cities (Amman, Dubai, Safat, Doha, Manama, and Riyadh), the Roadshow features keynote addresses from IDC analysts and presentations from its main international partners Trend Micro, Symantec, Net IQ and a host of local partners.

IDC's IT Security Roadshow reflects the continuing importance of IT security. It also reflects the changing nature of threats as well as the still underdeveloped realization of their seriousness: criminals find new ways to invade cyberspace, vandals unleash worms and viruses, unscrupulous scammers phish or spam email addresses, and con artists use social engineering to obtain usernames, PINs, and credit card numbers.

To help raise awareness, IDC's panel of speakers frame security in the larger context of business, strategy, technology, and human behavior, helping organizations make better decisions about policy and implementation. The speakers serve to complement and introduce core presentations on the latest IT security issues:

· New regulations on data and network protection

· Over-reliance on internal IT departments for security

· Growing number of internal and external security breaches

· Increasing use of the Internet as an essential business tool

· Expansion of mobile computing

"One of the roadshow's main goals is to help enterprises close the gap between awareness and practice," says Jyoti Lalchandani, Vice President and Regional MD, IDC MEA.

"We aim to provide reliable content and expert advice on how to use modern information technologies to secure and protect the enterprise, regardless of size and/or industry."

As such, IDC's IT Security roadshow is best suited for:

· Chief Security Officers, Directors of Enterprise Security, CIO's, CTOs, CISOs

· Privacy Officers, Network Security Managers, Server Application Managers

· Antivirus, Email Monitoring, VPN, and 3A Managers