What will 2013 bring for cyber security?
First, the good news. We think security will improve for larger, well-funded organizations. In the same way James Q. Wilson introduced community policing, transforming law enforcement, we think a community approach—a sort of security commune—will improve security in the digital realm. Sharing attack information will help remove seeming randomness of attacks.
It’s the time of year again when IT security experts predict what the next year will bring. Today, we bring to Vigilance's readers the predictions of three IT experts as seen from their 'crystal glass'. Read on:
Darren Anstee, solutions architect team lead at Arbor Networks, predicts:
1) DDoS will become more visible as a business risk: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) has become a familiar term to many more of us over the past year. The mainstream press coverage of the attacks from Anonymous; our increased appreciation of the broader spread of motivations behind attacks; and the simple fact that many organisations have now experienced attacks have seen to that. Ideologically motivated attacks are often in the press, but many other attacks are motivated by extortion, the need for a distraction (from other criminal activity e.g. data-theft) and revenge; DDoS is even being used now as a competitive ‘weapon’ in some markets.
SAN DIEGO, Calif.: Cubic was a winner in the CONNECT “Most Innovative Product Awards 2012” competition for its system to help prevent friendly fire casualties and provide location and targeting information to ground troops.
London, UK: Liaison Technologies, a global provider of secure cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, has announced its top predictions for cloud computing, business integration, and managed services in 2013. Based on insights gathered from IT industry thought leaders, analysts, and enterprise customers, Liaison anticipates the market will see an increased demand for managed services, more complete data integration solutions, and the reinvention of services companies that will align themselves with the cloud. Liaison believes these changes will drive a disruptive shift for IT over the next year.
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