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ADVA Ensemble CTO shares strategies for securing the edge at BCE

Expert panel debates challenges around protecting data in distributed cloud infrastructure

  • Speakers: Prayson Pate, CTO, Ensemble division, ADVA, Jim Hodges (moderator), principal analyst, cloud and security, Heavy Reading; Lakshmi Kandadai, head of service provider marketing and strategy, A10 Networks; Csaba Kiss Kallo, head of connectivity, mobility and security portfolio, Vodafone; Steven Shalita, VP, marketing and business development, Pluribus, James Thomson, solution architect, F5 Networks 
  • Topics: Securing the edge
  • When: Tuesday, May 15, 2:10 p.m.
  • Where: BIG Communications Event, Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, USA

As data/IT infrastructure is increasingly being distributed to the edge of the network, there is a growing need to also distribute and automate security functions, potentially using virtualization to spin up security instances and enforce policies as needed in real-time.

In this panel discussion, Prayson Pate and other industry leaders will provide a snapshot of the challenges involved in making sure data is protected at rest and in motion as the cloud infrastructure is distributed.