McAfee Labs foresees an increase in threats related to social networking sites, banking security, and botnets, as well as attacks targeting users, businesses, and applications. However, in 2010 we expect to see an increase in the effectiveness of law enforcement to fight back against cybercrime.
Researchers in the Websense Security Labs have identified emerging security exploits and trends anticipated to increase in the next 12 months. The emerging trends and predictions show an overall blending of security threats across multiple attack vectors for the purpose of roping computers into bot networks and stealing valuable confidential information. Researchers believe that hackers will look to compromise new platforms such as smartphones and take advantage of the popularity of Windows 7. They are also expected to compromise the integrity of search engine results and use legitimate advertisements to spread their malicious content.
The Problem – Uncontrolled access to sensitive data
An independent product safety certification organization with worldwide facilities needed to tighten the access to their client product inspection application databases.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a highly scalable cloud computing platform with high availability and dependability, and the flexibility to enable customers to build a wide range of applications. The issues of end-to-end security and end-to-end privacy within the cloud computing world are more sophisticated than within a single data center not facing the Internet.
For more than 26 years, Apple Computer has, for the most part, avoided the security spotlight. This good fortune is at least partly due to its significantly smaller share of the personal computer market, especially when compared to behemoth Microsoft.
Developments in portable device and data storage technology are escalating. The latest versions of MP3 players and flash memory devices have huge storage capabilities; yet these gadgets are small enough to easily conceal and sneak in behind the corporate line of defence. Further to this, easy connectivity and high speed data transfer has become increasingly more widespread — a user may simply plug the device into a USB or FireWire port and they are up and running — no drivers or configuration required! In practice, this means that a data thief can get away with even more precious data, and a negligent employee can dump more viruses onto the corporate network even when connecting for only a short time.
OpenTrust, founded in 2001, designs and develops solutions for the implementation of secure IT infrastructures. Our customers include some of the most demanding European Fortune 500 and government bodies often involved in very sensitive areas (national security, nuclear energy, financial transactions, airlines etc.) as well as enterprises whose aim is simply to better protect their assets.
In your research, you’ve found a number of likely solutions to corporate data losses and insider theft, like putting rules at the perimeter to prevent sensitive data from leaving the network or locking down individual documents. Better yet, you can even lock down physical devices and memory cards so that if they are stolen, at least the data residing on them will be inaccessible.