Critical
Infrastructure Protection Cited as a Key Concern at Most Prominent Gathering of
Energy Industry Top Executives
March
4, 2014, HOUSTON – Founder and CEO of AlertEnterprise, Jasvir Gill was invited for a
second year in a row, to present at IHS CERAWeek. Widely considered the “Davos” of
the energy world, CERAWeek attracts some of the brightest minds and the most
accomplished thought leaders to mingle with the CEOs and other top executives of
the largest energy, oil and gas industries worldwide. Jasvir Gill’s session on
Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection will be held on Wed. March
5th, 2014 as part of the Energy
Innovation Pioneers 2014 program.
Featured
speakers at IHS CERAWeek include Ben Bernanke, former Chairman of the US
Federal Reserve System; John Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado; Cheryl
LaFleur, Acting Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Ernest
Moniz, US Secretary of Energy; Gina McCarthy, Administrator, US Environmental
Protection Agency; Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy, Russian Federation;
ministers of energy and natural resources from numerous countries across the
globe; and the CEOs of AEP, BG Group, BHP Billiton, Chevron, Direct Energy,
Dow, Duke Energy, ENI, First Solar, Pemex, Petrobras, Siemens, Spectra Energy,
Total, TransCanada, and Valero Energy.
A
CSO Magazine study has confirmed that the financial cost attributed to cyber
incidents are mounting. The Energy Industry led this trend with incidents in
this sector costing the most. 24% of the surveyed companies reported their
losses from security breaches to be in excess of $10 Million [Source: 2014 Global State of
Information Security Survey, PricewaterhouseCoopers, CIO magazine, CSO
magazine, September 2013].
Jasvir
Gill, long considered an expert in security and critical infrastructure
protection, was invited to return to IHA CERAWeek to address the Energy
Innovation Pioneers class of 2014. As a distinguished alum he will remind the
audience that in spite of increased spending on security, companies are facing
a growing number of attacks that are more complex in nature. According to
Jasvir Gill, “Cybersecurity threats now extend well beyond just IT-related
attacks. Intruders are extending their attack vectors to combine this with
threats to physical security and SCADA Industrial Control Systems” Jasvir adds,
“Attacks that are complex in nature, need more sophisticated solutions that can
extend across the entire enterprise.”
AlertEnterprise
has developed security technology that bridges the gap between IT and OT
(Operational Technology) to deliver 360-degree situational awareness and
incident response for corporate and critical infrastructure protection. Jasvir
goes on to add, “AlertEnterprise now delivers solutions to the Energy Industry with
partners to help improve operational
reliability, protect operating assets and respond quicker to a range of vulnerabilities and persistent
threats from cyber, physical or insider sources.”
Previously,
AlertEnterprise announced an agreement with SAP AG. Under the terms of the
agreement, SAP will resell specific AlertEnterprise software products as SAP
Physical Security Management by AlertEnterprise and SAP Critical Infrastructure
Protection by AlertEnterprise.
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About
AlertEnterprise
AlertEnterprise
delivers security convergence solutions for corporate and critical
infrastructure protection. AlertEnterprise solutions can analyze and correlate
risks across IT systems, physical access control systems, supervisory control
and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and other industrial control systems to
deliver situational intelligence, incident management and response as well as
all aspects of compliance automation. AlertEnterprise enables identity and
access management functions for security to be uniformly applied across the
domains of IT, physical security and plant industrial control systems. For more
information, see www.alertenterprise.com.
About
IHS CERAWeek
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by IHS Vice Chairman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Daniel Yergin, IHS
CERAWeek 2014, Energy and the New Global Competition, will bring together more
than 2,500 delegates and feature more than 250 distinguished speakers to
examine the accelerating pace of change in energy markets, technologies and
geopolitics amidst a rapidly evolving competitive landscape.
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About
Jasvir Gill
Jasvir
Gill is the Founder and CEO of AlertEnterprise and has more than 20 years of
experience in security, compliance and access management. Prior to
AlertEnterprise, Jasvir was the Founder and CEO of application security company
Virsa Systems where he led the design of the Virsa Continuous Compliance Suite.
An early pioneer in establishing governance risk and compliance as a software
market segment, Jasvir drove the growth of Virsa as an enterprise software
provider signing up over 400 major corporations and organizations as customers.
Virsa Systems was acquired by SAP. SAP made significant additional investments
in this business and went on to sign up over 1,000 enterprise customers under
the continued leadership of Jasvir who took on the role of Senior Vice
President and General Manger of the SAP GRC Business Unit. In 2007 Jasvir left
SAP to establish AlertEnterprise and implement his vision to deliver the next
generation of security and critical infrastructure protection.
Press Contacts:
For more
information, or to schedule an in-person interview with Jasvir Gill, please
contact
Pan Kamal, Vice President, Marketing,
AlertEnterprise, Inc. 4350 Starboard Drive, Fremont, CA
94538 USA
Pan.kamal@alertenterprise.com ; mobile: 650-793-5992
