2012 has been the year when malware has really stood up and made an impact – from stuxnet to Duqu, it has really made all of us sit up and take note on how malware can really affect all of us.
2012 has been the year when malware has really stood up and made an impact – from stuxnet to Duqu, it has really made all of us sit up and take note on how malware can really affect all of us.

Jeff Hudson
In a world where physical is affected virtually we need to change our thinking
In Sir Isaac Newton’s time there were three laws of motion, which dominated the scientific view of the world. While he, and his scientific peers, might have had many different opinions, what they all agreed was that everything in the universe moves. However, today, it’s the way that things move that has changed - phenomenally.
Every day in an organisation users log hundreds of time consuming and expensive calls to the IT help desk with problems that need solving – fast!
Avecto’s COO Paul Kenyon has written an article on how organisations need to pinpoint the root cause of the distressed calls that the IT departments receive every day. While IT departments usually are able to fix the problem more often than not the common underlying reason goes undetected.

Young employees take more risks with software. This doesn’t have to be a problem
They have been variously described as technology’s ‘Generation Y’ or ‘Generation Tech’, an undisciplined, impulsive, entitled horde of twenty-something workers older heads are inclined to see as one of the biggest security challenges ever to hit corporate networks.
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