HP boosts security portfolio to handle complex IT environments, threats

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out six new enterprise security offerings, continuing to build upon HP's security strategy that was introduced last year.

Rebecca Lawson, director of Worldwide Security Initiatives at HP, explained via telephone last week that enterprise customers are having a hard time with security because it's complicated and threats are more complex, making them harder to find before it's too late.

"Specifically, what our customers are dealing with is using new emerging innovative technology but also fractured legacy security environments," Lawson continued. "They just don’t all work together." Thus, the goal of HP's new security solutions is to address these two issues by providing both strategy and implementation of security across the whole enterprise from mobile to servers to networks to printers to big data.