On 20th of May, in Riga (Hotel Avalon), capital of Latvia will take part a conference which is meant to bring together Data Security specialists, Chief Security and Chief Information Officers from public and private sectors, IT solution providers, enterprise system integrators and software and hardware resellers from all three Baltic States countries together with most innovative data security solution vendors. This year it will be second “Headlight” conference in the Baltic States, an annual traditional event started in 2009 when already in its “birthday” an event hosted more than 130 participants.
The importance of data security is growing with incredible speed together with development of different new sciences, technologies, new business models and this is not a clue any more that standard security tools we used years ago to protect our most critical IS, infrastructure, most confidential data from attacks from outside and lately more and more commonly used data leakage problems caused by insiders, are not efficient any more. And also in the Baltic States we hear, read, watch security incidents in all available media every day and numbers of incidents increase. Value of business, reputation of company, productivity, competition, market share and many more indicators depend on quality data security. And in “information age” of 21st Century the key word is “innovations”.
Organizer of conference is an international (EU, CIS, Baltics) value added distribution network founder and manager, company “headtechnology” which was found in year 2000 in Germany. Constantly since the beginning company continues working with IT Security solutions and following innovations and helping them to adopt faster in the fast developing markets of Eastern Europe. In its portfolio “headtechnology” has more than 25 innovative IT security technology vendors and selected most actual, best of the best technology vendors to participate in this year’s “Headlight” conference in Riga. Speakers from UK, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, USA will introduce participants with latest news and innovations from very well known IT Security global market leaders (such as Vasco Data Security, Lumension Security, PGP Corporation, SpectorSoft) as well with some raising stars from IT Security (Varonis Systems, Balabit IT Security, IpoQue) already marked by Gartner, IDC and other market analysts. All day long event will be moderated by exclusive participants, will offer participants possibilities for private meetings, workshops, demonstrations of solutions, discussions and many interesting surprises, gifts from vendors and more.
Dārgākais un vērtīgākais produkts pasaulē ir informācija. Tāpēc vēl vērtīgāka ir šī produkta drošība. Ilgu laiku esmu interesējies IT drošības sfērā par dažādām niansēm. IT drošība ir un paliks kā viena no galvenajām prioritātēm mūsdienās. Likšu iekš šīs komūnas jaunumus no IT security sfēras, par cik tajā peldu kā zivs.
