Security trends of 2009
- Article 77 of 77
- Information Age, December 2009
Unlike most of IT, where a new development rarely comes out of the blue, security almost never fails to come up with something new and unexpected each year. Old trends may continue, but with criminal gangs motivated by the attraction of thousands, if not millions of pounds if they can infiltrate the right systems, somebody, somewhere is always trying to come up with new ways of breaking security.
2009 has been no different, with a number of new threats presenting themselves right from the outset.
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Data loss and prevention (DLP) isn’t a new concern for the enterprise, but it has become a serious concern over the last year. The Information Commissioner’s Office has seen 424 organisations report data security breaches in the past 12 months compared to 277 the year before. Employees and ex-employees have been responsible for some of this: fraud prevention service CIFAS says that the rate of dishonest employee actions increased by more than two thirds (69.5 percent) between the latter half of 2008 and the first half of 2009. To combat this, companies have started to look seriously at DLP solutions, such as ubiquitous encryption of all data.
Many of these trends are set to continue into 2010, but new ones are bound to emerge soon. Many predict that virtualised systems will be the next target for concerted attack. Whatever happens though, there are bound to be some big surprises.
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