Nick Savvides

Senior Director of Strategic Business, APAC Forcepoint

Nick Savvides is the director of strategic accounts for Asia Pacific at Forcepoint responsible for growing the company’s strategic business with its key customers in the region. Taking the lead to solve customers’ most complex security issues while accelerating the adoption of human-centric security systems to support their business growth and digital transformation. In addition, Savvides is responsible for providing thought leadership and over-the-horizon guidance to CISOs, industry and analysts. Savvides is an information security expert, with over 20 years of experience. Before joining Forcepoint, he spent 12 years at Symantec in various technology and sales roles across Asia Pacific and Japan. Most recently, he was Symantec’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Asia-Pacific, responsible for the company’s portfolio strategy and innovation roadmap, and providing local market insights that influenced global strategic planning and product development.

Day 1 | Wednesday, 17 February 2021

10:00 AM Rapidly Evolving SASE & Practical Implementation Considerations

SASE has become the new model for converged network and cyber security architecture to lead enterprises into the 2020’s, but it is continuing to evolve and change. Originally incorporating some aspects of the Zero Trust security model, many implementations are blurring the lines, incorporating more aspects. Furthermore, while the SASE model promises simplicity, the reality for many organisations is that there is significant technology, architectural, process and even contractual hurdles in adopting a SASE model.

This session will explore:

  • The concept of SASE and why it’s considered the security architecture of the future
  • How SASE approaches can differ and how it’s evolving
  • The role of Zero Trust and how it’s affecting SASE beyond networking
  • Network challenges in adopting SASE
  • Practical adoption of SASE in mixed on-prem and cloud environments