Keynote 1

Security consistently ranks as one of the top IT priorities and concerns year after year as evidenced by the increase in security budgets by IT. Over 90% of enterprises are investing in firewalls, anti-virus software and other protection mechanisms, yet over three-quarters of these same enterprises experience worm attacks, virus penetrations, root kit infections and the presence of spyware. Dealing with viruses, spyware and other malware reportedly costs businesses around the world billions of Euros per year in direct and indirect expenses. Our industry response thus far is a growing number of disparate security protocols and technologies which significantly increase the system maintenance costs while degrading performance. Alan Crouch, Director of Intel's Communication Technology Lab, will discuss how future technologies are being developed that will build trusted platforms without sacrificing performance.