1. Issue 23 (28.02.2012)
R&D Express
Every speaker merits high laudatory comments, but the space constraints of
R&D Express make a full account impossible. I will cover in detail only one of
them that was perhaps the most discussed of all: a presentation by Valery Boronin and Vera Trubacheva, who staged a mock trial of DLP 1.0 (video). Also
starring in this performance were Ivan Manuylov, who played the judge, and
Stitch from the movie with the cute alien (I'm sure you can guess). :) As Valery
Boronin confided in me after the event, the main objective of the act was to
make people understand that "there is an enormous gap between technologies
and real life, and products do not factor in the human error phenomenon, and
without it the protection doesn‘t make sense". Because of the time limit on the
presentations, our DLPR was able to cover only one element of Data Luxury
Protection—people. But that was worth it: the trial was very illustrative. But who
came up with the idea of staging a performance at a business conference?
This is what Vera Trubacheva had to say on the subject: "It was very important
for us to make the performance unforgettable and convey a complex problem
in simple terms. In addition to the court scenario, we also considered a restaurant scenario (how they cook "user awareness" - we expected to appear onstage dressed up as chefs), or a day in the life of an officer (the presentation is
conveyed via dialogs between an officer with different people). We thought the
court scenario was the most spectacular of all, so we chose it eventually. Judging by the feedback from summit participants, we succeeded in our goal of explaining how important it is to raise user awareness and how to accomplish
this".
According to many, it was an amazing event. Let us ask the chief mastermind
behind Security Analyst Summit – Sergey Novikov – as to whether the goals
have been achieved. "Of course they have been achieved. The summit is obviously growing: both in terms of the level of guest speakers and the reports
themselves. Still, there is a lot of room for improvement, and we know that we
can make our conference even better next year. Moreover, many summit participants (both external experts and our employees) have ranked Kaspersky
Security Analyst Summit alongside such major industrial conferences as Virus
Bulletin, AVAR, Black Hat, and others. Many even rated our summit higher in
terms of organization and content. We received excellent feedback: from top
managers, external experts, journalist, and many employees of ours. All participants and sponsors are very pleased with the conference and look forward to
joining us next year".
For that matter, the summit was not restricted to a business program. It included a trip to Chichen Itza and Maya jungle, the city of Coba and various forms of
entertainment. But let us leave this out of the picture for now, until next time. :)