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Chris Corde is a Director of Corporate Strategy for RSA, the Security Division of EMC. Chris focuses on long term disruptive opportunities for RSA, including cloud, mobile, and advanced threats. He has been with RSA since 2008 when he joined to lead product marketing for RSA’s Application Security portfolio, specifically its encryption, tokenization, and key management business. Prior to RSA, Chris worked as a Practice Manager in EMC Consulting where he was responsible for offer development in EMC’s Data Center Networking practice, a critical piece of EMC’s overall strategy around virtualization and networking which now forms the VCE coalition. Prior to EMC, Chris was a Java Engineer at a number of startups in New York, including FreshDirect (launched in 2001) which is a successful internet grocer throughout the greater New York City region. He holds his MBA from Boston College’s Carroll School of Business, as well as an MS in Computer Science from New York University’s Courant Institute and a BA in Computer Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
We are seeing a fundamental shift in the way IT is consumed, and subsequently secured, and it’s mostly driven by mobile. The recent SBIC report, “Realizing the Mobile Enterprise: Balancing the Risks and Rewards of Consumer Devices,” highlights these shifts. There are a number of trends around mobility that make it a distinctly different and new security challenge to consider
I have worked on mobile security strategy for RSA for the last two years now, and during that tenure the market continues to evolve and move at a rapid pace, which no doubt is putting more stress and uncertainty into the minds of security professionals. But, just the other day I saw a graphic in Computerworld that really summed up the entire mobility movement. Take a look:
It’s a common question around here: who holds the most power in the mobile infrastructure? The carrier? The handset makers? The OS providers? Security is by its nature an add-on service, something that often is piggybacked on other more top-of-mind services, so whenever you try to sell security in the mobile space you always come to that golden question: Who owns the most customer mindshare on the mobile device?
We are witnessing a technology revolution, and within this massive shift in endpoint devices, there is also a rolling thunder of change to the traditional security landscape. And not surprisingly, mobile security is often a few steps behind the curve as the industry rushes to catch up with business requirements.
