Organisers of Infosecurity Europe have hailed the annual event as a success, with 6172 square metres of stand space (approx 68,500 sq ft) and 311 primary stand holders (compared to 280 in 2006) and over 360 exhibitors in total (including companies sharing stands).
Attendance broke all records with numbers up by 4.5pc to 12,181 visitors (pre ABC audit) compared with 11,635 in 2006. Some 80pc of next years stand space has already been booked.
Infosecurity Europe saw almost a third of companies exhibiting coming from overseas with many using it as the gateway into Europe โ a contingent of companies exhibited from North America, Asia, Africa, Russia, Israel, Australia and mainland Europe. Infosecurity also saw interest from overseas visitors with almost 900 attending from as far a field as North America, South America, Asia, Australasia, Africa and Europe.
The education programme at Infosecurity Europe was more popular than ever, it is claimed, with standing room only in most of the presentations. Issues in information security was covered by over 100 speakers, who ranged from lords and MPs to senior executives.
"On January 2nd when I’m planning my year, the three days of Infosecurity Europe get blocked out", said Paul Simmonds, Global Information Security Director, ICI and Jericho Forum Board of Management.
The Lionโs Den at Infosecurity Europe once again saw seven vendors pitching products to a panel of buyers in the Information Security Industry. The Lionโs Panel chaired by Colonel John Doody also included Ray Stanton, Paul Simmonds, Colin Clark, John FitzGerald and Tony Lock. Secerno won as the panel felt that Secerno.SQL really had a compulsive offering that will provide clear and significant security benefits for the protection of data.
โInfosecurity Europe has a real buzz about it, you could feel the energy and enthusiasm in the air, and you only get this atmosphere at a successful event in a buoyant market with visitors coming to the show to do business.โ Sam Jeffers, Infosecurity Europeโs Event Manager said, โEach year the show surprises even us as organisers, it is a reflection of the needs of organisations to secure their business and reputations and the ability of the exhibitors here to provide the very best technology and services to meet the challenge. The threats that organisations have to face are very real as recent events such as the TK Maxx security breach have shown, but the Information security industry has the ability to meet these threats and Infosecurity Europe is the place where security professionals can seek out all the latest best of breed technology and services to help them. Once again the education programme was hugely popular, with a line up of security experts to rival any other event in the world. We are also delighted with the mutually beneficial effect of the Jericho Forum running their Spring Conference on โDelivering the De-perimeterised Futureโ alongside Infosecurity Europe. The quality of visitors to Infosecurity Europe was truly exceptional this year with CIOs of high street banks attending and the exhibitorโs delight is reflected in 80pc of the space for 2008 already being booked!โ
Exhibitor testimonials
Neil Hammerton, CEO, Email Systems said: โInfosecurity Europe 2007 delivered a fantastic mix of end user and reseller opportunities and was consequently our best show in the past four years. The event was busy throughout the three days, ensuring that our stand received a steady stream of traffic for the duration of the show. Once again our promotional activity proved to be great value with Email Systems branded bags ubiquitous both inside and outside the venue. We have already booked ahead for 2008.โ
Phil Higgins, CEO, Brookcourt Solutions said: โOur sponsorship of the Education Programme at Infosecurity Europe really raised our profile at the show, we had a large numbers of CIOs visit our stand, including the CIOs from three of the UKs largest banks that simply does not happen at other shows."
Tim Hogarth, Marketing Manager, Clearswift
โTenfold more leads in the defence sector by Wednesday lunchtime compared with last year. Iโve had to phone the warehouse for more brochures as we keep running out!โ
Tim Warner, UK Country Manager, Finjan
"The show has been a fantastic success for us, the Malware Museum proved popular with senior executives, security experts and the press, and we have already booked a stand that is three times bigger for Infosecurity Europe 2008".
Richard Hales, Country Manager, F-Secure
โQuality of leads have been the best ever.โ
Peter Crowcombe, Director of Enterprise Marketing, EMEA, Juniper
โInfosecurity Europe is a key event in Juniper Networksโ calendar. It provides us with a great opportunity to identify well qualified new business, as well as meet with existing customers and partners, all under one roofโ
Andrew Clarke, Senior VP International, Patchlink
โInfosecurity Europe delivered high quality visitors who are seriously looking at implementing security solutions. This is the key show for us to be exhibiting at within Europe.โ
Jamie Cowper, Director of Markting, PGP GB Ltd
โHighest quality of visitors weโve ever seen.โ
Marie Thornton, Marketing Director, SafeNet
โ"This is the definitive trade show for SafeNet in EMEA. The quality of attendees was excellent."
Emma Dunstone, Marketing Director, Secerno
"Wow. Only Secernoโs second Infosecurity show, but the level of interest in database security and the quality of those visiting our stand was phenomenal โ thank you. We were also lucky enough to get to enter โ and win โ the Lionโs Den, where we were pitted against several other vendors in front of some of the most prominent โlionsโ in the security industry."
Carole Theriault, Senior Security Consultant, SOPHOS
โThis Infosecurity Europe show has been the best yet for Sophos. Not only was it a great platform for us to introduce our NAC product, it has also proved to be a lot of fun- high energy is key!โ
Mike Davis, Marketing Director EMEA, Verisign
โVolume seemed higher this year, and as always a great forum to meet up with potential and easy customers as well as the press and analyst communityโ
Frank Coggrave, Western European Regional Director, Websense.
โInformation leak prevention is at the forefront of security professional’s minds, so Infosecurity Europe was the perfect place to showcase the Websense solution. Anyone serious about security attends this event and that is reflected in the quality and quantity of leads.โ
