Securing a Seat at the C-Suite in 2016: A Security 500 West Overview
More than 60 enterprise security leaders attended this year’s Security 500 West conference in Los Gatos, California, on May 17, and they participated in high-level panels and conversations about how CSOs and security directors could make a bigger impact on the organization without squashing innovation or compromising the enterprise’s culture – an understandably hot topic in Silicon Valley.
Sponsored exclusively by G4S and moderated by Lynn Mattice of Mattice Associates, this year’s conference kicked off with a keynote address from Robert Jones, Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI, about corporate espionage on U.S. companies. He recommended that enterprises educate their employees on the methods of targeting and theft, as corporate espionage involves much more than dumpster diving for discarded files now. Around 50 percent of espionage cases have insider help, he says, whether it’s intentional or not.