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IT Security 2012: Top Predictions, Threats
While the state of the economy may cause some channel partner executives to furrow their brows in worry over 2012 sales projections, security remains a vibrant bright spot for resellers and service providers across the board. In order to grow their businesses, security-focused channel partners would do well to follow the following trends predicted by experts to be top-of-mind among customer...
Top 5 Security Predictions for 2012
Looking back at the headlines of 2011, Security Watch saw some pretty alarming developments this year. Perhaps biggest of all was when the source codes for Zeus and SpyEye botnets were leaked, allowing any punk to easily replicate and spread the malware. Then Anonymous and an emergent group of hacktivists, Lulzsec, disrupted operations of major state and commercial institutions, including the...
Cyber criminals will target small business, the cloud, mobile and social networks in 2012
Cyber crooks will target small businesses, social media attacks will be more common, and mobile security threats will reach an all-time high in 2012. So says The Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division of Kroll Inc., which released its annual security forecast, highlighting key areas of risk and trends that will impact how organizations and governments combat and respond to...
Cyber Security Report Says Tough Times May Be Ahead for Small Businesses
Data security firm Kroll Fraud Solutions has released the results of their 2012 Cyber Security Forecast. The company’s Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division examined the security issues encountered by their clients in 2011 and used those to predict the top ten trends they expected to see next year. One major problem across the board, according to a Kroll official, is that...
Preparing In-House Counsel for a New Year of Cybersecurity Threats
As CorpCounsel has discussed on these web pages before, 2011 has been a banner year for cyber attacks on company networks and corporate data breaches involving sensitive customer information. There’s been much discussion of how government and the private sector need to put their heads together on cybersecurity measures, just as laws governing data privacy continue to proliferate around the...
10 top security worries for 2012
IT consulting company Kroll has released a list of what it believes are the 10 most significant cybersecurity issues for businesses. Among its list of things to worry about are its prediction that small businesses will be increasingly subject to “hacktivism.” This is especially true for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) that have reason to store oodles of data, such as customer records...
Mobile technology changes making cyber security more difficult
Mobile technology security threats will be at an all-time high, and social media will increase in popularity as conduit for social engineering attacks, says Kroll Inc. in its annual security forecast released Wednesday. Karen Schuler, Nashville, Tenn.-based practice leader of Kroll's Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division, said in a statement, “The events of 2011 suggest that the...
Top Ten Cyber Security Trends for 2012
Mobile technology security threats, social media, "hactivism" and more will be at an all-time high in 2012, according to an annual security forecast by the Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division of Kroll Inc. “The events of 2011 suggest that the cyber security landscape will find public and private organizations are still on unsteady footing,” said Karen Schuler, practice...
SEC guidance clarifies cybersecurity disclosure requirements
Recent guidance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on disclosure of cybersecurity risks and incidents puts the spotlight squarely on enterprise cybersecurity and could help security professionals at publicly traded companies win funding for projects, experts say. Read the full article, by Marcia Savage, at Search Security.
