InfoSec
Went to the InfoSec show last week at Olympia. My company had a stand there and I was the lucky one to pull a 3 day shift on the stand........arrrrrrgggggggghhhh...... thankfully the show was very good and managed to get round and speak to a lot of the other vendors to find out what they were offering. The big things this year seemed to be SSL VPNs and managed email services.
VPN.. lets you connect to your work network from a location on the internet and then work as if you were in the office... .SSL VPN lets you do it from practically any machine without having to have software preinstalled and configured.... all you need to get access is a web browser, a URL and a login name / pass....
Managed email services.... this is something that message labs have been doing for years now.. scanning incoming email and remove any viruses / spam and then forwarding it onto you. Removes a lot of the unwanted email traffic before it even gets to your internet connection and removes the pain of implementing a solution yourself.... What surprised me was just how many other people are now doing this.... Message labs has showed everyone that the model does work and now everyone else wants a slice of the pie.... also shows that more and more of the internet type services could easily move to a hosted model.. mail checking, web checking, ssl vpn / remote access...