With the exponential growth of data generation, sharing and collection stemming from new digital business models fueled by Big Data, cloud computing and the Internet of Things, we are setting the stage for an almost limitless ability to identify trends, satisfy customer needs and improve business performance. We are also creating a cybercriminal's paradise as the old perimeter-based model of data security based on finding malware and data leaks has become woefully inadequate at protecting all possible data access points and data stores. New security approaches assume that you are under attack and focus instead on protecting the data itself, even in computer memory, the target for a growing number of attacks. In this session, Protegrity CTO Ulf Mattsson will provide insight to address the following issues:
- Taking a data-centric approach to balance the often competing goals of improving data security while maximizing data value and productivity;
- Managing today’s threats while adapting to the ever-changing data security landscape of the future;
- Bridging the gap between security regulations, privacy and compliance, yet still be able to provide powerful analysis and data insight;
- Selecting the best methods of protecting sensitive data at rest, in transit and in use;
- Understanding why tokenization, the most effective form of PCI data security, is increasingly being used to protect PII and PHI as well.
Ulf Mattsson is the Chief Technology Officer of Protegrity. He is commonly considered one of the founding fathers of tokenization and has been advising the industry’s top analysts and stakeholders including PCI Security Standards Council and ISACA. Ulf is the inventor of more than 20 patents in the areas of encryption key management, policy driven data encryption, internal threat protection, data usage control and intrusion prevention.
Ulf is working with the PCI Security Standards Council to create standards for Payment Card Industry in areas of Cloud Computing, Encryption and Tokenization. He also is a research member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) WG 11.3 Data and Application Security, ANSI X9, Cloud Security Alliance , Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).
Prior to joining Protegrity, Ulf spent 20 years with IBM working in software development as a consulting resource to IBM’s research organization, specializing in the areas of IT architecture and IT security. He received a master's degree in physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and holds degrees in electrical engineering and finance.