Friday October 2, 2009 I gave a talk at the data loss prevention conference DLP-Expert in Istra – just ouside of Moscow.   I say “just outside” euphemistically, because it took us 4 hours to drive from Domdedovo airport to Istra – a trip of about 80 kilometers. Natalya Kaspersky presented an interesting market survey they did that showed high awareness of data loss threats among SMBs.
You can see the pictures on my Facebook
There were about 200 people from Russian companies – both end users like Gazprom and Star Bank as well as a security integrators and consultants. The conference was sponsored by Infowatch, Kaspersky, Cisco, Symantec and Mcafee.
I presented a systematic approach to selecting data security technology in order to prevent intellectual property abuse.   The system is based on the scientific method and predicates verifying two basic hypotheses – namely that a) data loss is happening and b) that cost-effective data security countermeasures exist.
The talk was well received and a few people came up to me and complemented my presentation skills – one person was a bit amused that I was using a technique used as far back as Galileo.
Click here to download the presentation – Choosing the right data security technology
After the conference, we took a few days off to tour Moscow, the challenge of navigating the Cyrillic signs in the Metro was fun and one of the days we had the assistance of a good friend Svetlana Tumanova.


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