The Advent of Cloud Apps – Is Your Organisation Under Threat?

Orion Suydam, Senior Director of Product Management – Cloud Security, Forcepoint hosted a roundtable discussion on the topic of The Advent of Cloud Apps – Is Your Organisation Under Threat?

Orion Suydam used his extensive experience to facilitate a discussion around cloud security and how organisations can protect their IP and prevent unauthorised data access and/or loss. It was noted during the discussion, the increase in cloud applications usage across an organisation, comes an increased risk in data security. Orion Suydam outlined strategies to allow cloud apps to be a friend, not a foe. Strategies such as securing popular (Office 365, Salesforce, Google G-Suite etc.) and customised cloud applications, as well as enabling access control and data protection for managed and unmanaged mobile phones, tablets, and laptops.

As Senior Director of Product Management for Forcepoint, Orion Suydam is responsible for product strategy and roadmap for its Cloud Security products and services portfolio. Based in Austin, USA, Mr. Suydam brings over 20 years of IT product management and development expertise to the role. Prior to joining Forcepoint, Mr. Suydam served as the Director of Product Management with 21CT, a security analytics and visualization start-up focused on advanced correlation and threat detection systems. Prior to 21CT, Mr. Suydam served in product management roles at Hewlett Packard, where he managed the TippingPoint IPS product line, Blue Coat Systems, Packeteer and Secure Computing Corp.