Information Security Newsletter - Security Outlook for 2010 Edition

2010 Security Outlook

Threat Researcher

In 2009, many in IT industry lost jobs because of the tremendous pressure to cut-cost – so companies could go through and survive the recession. However, not everything in IT were gloomy, IT services that are aligned to cost-reductions and value creation such as implementing virtualization, SaaS and cloud services are on the rise – and they are expected to grow in the coming year.

Because we’ve been in a difficult situation, where IT companies are expected to cut cost, maintain customers and at the same time, expected to adopt in changing market opportunity, many of us worked in survival mode. This provides opportunities for organized cyber criminals to take more steps in becoming sophisticated and expanding capabilities.

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Security Trends and Outlook for 2010

Patriots Technologies Inc.

There was a call recently, sponsored by Symantec, in which security experts and analysts discussed the security trends in 2009 and what they expected to see in 2010. Here's what they said:

2009 Trends

Drive-by. In 2008 there were 18 million drive-by download attempts. In the first half of 2009 there already 17.5 million. This activity is increasing. (see last blog for discussion of drive-by downloads)

Plug-ins. Drive-by downloads that target browser plug-ins as well as websites are increasing.

Trusted websites. Legitimate websites are now being compromised. The vast number of blocked downloads, per Symantec, were from legitimate websites. Cyber criminals are finding ways to post, especially on social networking websites, malicious Java applets or Active X components that target users of these websites.

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Web 2.0 Technologies Make 2010 Security Outlook Bleak

Mike Vizard

As we look toward 2010, the one thing we can be sure of is that there will be a lot more collaboration between end users and different companies thanks to the mainstream adoption of a variety of Web 2.0 technologies. And with that increased adoption we’ll also see not only more sophisticated types of malware attacks in 2010, but more comprehensive ones as well.

Bradley Anstis, vice president of technology strategy for M86 Security, a provider of security software that just acquired Finjan, notes that when it comes to security, IT organizations would do just as well to pay as much attention to the data leaving the company as they do the packets coming in. That’s because in the age of Web 2.0, more attacks have to do with pulling data out of the company than just trying to insert malware somewhere in the organization.

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