For those of you unfamiliar with the event, HP Protect is the premier event of the year for the HP Enterprise Security products and services organization, held to bring customer practitioners, industry experts, products/services managers and their support specialists together to not only solve real-world problems but to also help set the course for the next year. If you've not had a chance to attend the event and you're an HP customer, or you're interested in the event - check out the HP Protect website.


I was a guest at the conference this year and had an amazing opportunity to sit down in 3 separate sessions with a serviceEpis provider, a practitioner, and 2 vendor-partners and talk real-world security... 


Episode 3 - Vikas Bhatia (CEO of Kalki Consulting) and Anton Goncharov (Managing Principal of MetaNet, LLC) - In this discussion, we just barely scratched the surface on the challenges SMEs face with integrating security into business processes and developing security solutions on a shoestring. This discussion focuse entirely on processes and the need for business integration and insight - and is likely the starting point for many further conversations to come.