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The information security community admits it needs better training in a variety of new technology areas, yet at the same time reports in significant numbers that these same technologies are already being deployed without security in mind. The profession as a whole appears to be resistant to adopt new trends in technology, such as social media and cloud computing, which are widely adopted by businesses and the average end-user. The information security profession could be on a dangerous course, where information security professionals are engulfed in their current job duties and responsibilities, leaving them ill-prepared for the major changes ahead, and potentially endangering the organizations they secure. This is not to say the industry is doomed. If the projected growth in number of information security professionals and concurrent increases in training continue, these risks can be reduced.

Fortinet® - a leading network security provider and the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -- today announced that SK Telecom, the leading telecommunications provider in Korea, has chosen Fortinet's FortiGate®-3950B high-end network security appliance to help protect its 24-million subscribers using its 3G and 4G LTE services against increasing malicious attacks. SK Telecom needed to upgrade its legacy network security infrastructure to cope with the higher throughput and protection demand resulting from the increased traffic generated by its 3G and 4G LTE services as well as its subscribers' broader use of smartphones and tablets. After conducting a benchmark test on various security appliances from major vendors, SK Telecom has selected Fortinet's FortiGate-3950B solution for its unmatched performance, flexibility, feature-richness and ease of management.

Siemens Enterprise Communications has started to offer, through its partners, the voice and UC services as ‘OpenScape Cloud Services’ to customers using a public cloud. In order to do so, the company had to develop and set up secure and reliable IT and communications infrastructures as well as high-availability data centers in Germany and the U.S. Siemens Enterprise Communications’ requirements were high in terms of security and reliability, guaranteed system stability as well as adequately dimensioned performance and scalability. In parallel, the security solution needed to support voice, unified communications and application data.