Cryptzone predicts Trends for 2012
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
Gothenburg, 2011 December 12
With 2012 just around the corner, Cryptzone, the IT Threat mitigation experts,
today announced its 8 key predictions for the top security trends for the coming
year.
Peter Davin, CEO of Cryptzone, comments "Employees are now demanding to use
their own devices for work with security as a prerequisite. On the other side,
hackers have become more sophisticated in whom they target, opting away from
indiscriminate strikes. 2012 will see these trends develop even further."
Targeted Attacks
In 2011, we saw a number of examples of targeted attacks such as Anonymous
targeting Sony and the AT&T Terrorist attack. This trend will continue to rise
and rather than hackers attacking randomly they will have specific targets
whether for political issues or personal vendettas. Therefore more customers
will be a target from these pre-designed attacks with the purpose to steal
intellectual property. Also attacks against well-known brands will become more
common as unsuspecting recipients receive malicious e-mails containing hostile
code. Therefore companies need to start thinking about zero-day threats and how
to secure their data.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Organizations will continue to adapt their Enterprise Mobility Strategy. With
more users bringing their own devices to work and expecting to use them to gain
productivity and efficiency benefits in the workplace, IT departments will have
to manage device diversity. One security policy for everyone using mobile
devices is not a suitable approach when users form such a non-homogenous group.
With less budget to issue corporate approved devices, organizations not only
have to take into consideration the protection of their own data, but also make
sure users understand what will happen to their personal data should the device
be stolen. In many cases the employers will expect to be notified of the loss
immediately and may opt to delete all data without exception! Therefore every
user who requests access to corporate resources through a mobile device should
sign up to a corporate policy before access is granted. This will avoid some
nasty surprises and employee grievances.
Greater Security for Production Systems
Production systems have traditionally been considered at lower risk for IT
security incidents. However with more and more of these systems running on a
Windows platform they are becoming just as vulnerable as other hardware. What's
more the consequences of a security breach can be very serious, even resulting
in personal injury or death. Following several attacks against Windows operated
robots and X-ray machines, organizations will start to look for security
solutions that are not reliant on an Internet connection for security updates.
Intranets on the iPad
During 2012 and 2013 more and more organizations will offer end users the
opportunity to interact with Intranet sites or collaboration tools, such as
SharePoint, on their private or corporate iPad. This will provide productivity
gains for organizations and faster response times, as users respond to corporate
documents on a more convenient device both at the office and while travelling.
Organizations will have to consider the security implications this poses.
Incident Response Management
Evolving IT security threats are a given for 2012. Most CIOs recognize that data
breaches are an inevitable risk. Organizations cannot hope to protect against
all threats, so how organizations respond to an incident will become
increasingly important. Establishing and communicating incident handling
policies and procedures that can be quickly adapted as the threat landscape
changes will be crucial to damage limitation. Creating a culture where staff are
not afraid to raise security concerns or report security incidents promptly
should figure prominently on the compliance agenda.
Context Awareness for Access Rights
Access rights are becoming more and more of an issue to manage, as perimeters
become more porous. Many companies think role based access is the answer, but
this is too often just another name for groups in the network Active Directory,
which are already quite complex to manage. Often groups and roles overlap, are
duplicated, need sub-dividing or simply remain unused. Greater context awareness
will be the answer during 2012, whereby rules are used to derive access rights
in real time, based on the context of the user, document and/or request. The
power of this approach can be seen by considering what happens if you set just
5 go/no-go rules; this gives as many as 32 different outcomes.
Content Security verses Hardware Security
During 2012 hardware security will remain a priority. However increasingly
organizations will look into approaches where the security focus is around
actual content rather than the storage device. The same data is often replicated
many times throughout an organization and even beyond the organization's
boundary to third parties. It can make it difficult for the end user to
understand where data may be stored most securely. Instead of looking at storage
security, CIOs will identify content at risk and secure the content, so when it
is replicated security stays/travels with the content to all its ultimate
destinations.
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Shortened Product Development Lifecycles
Customers will increasingly expect vendors to adapt software even more quickly
in response to evolving working practices and emerging IT security threats.
Those vendors best able to demonstrate technical and business agility to 'tweak'
their offerings for immediate threat protection will gain a clear competitive
advantage. More software adaptations will focus towards usability for less
technical users. In order to thwart cyber-security threats everyone within an
organization needs to be more vigilant and equipped to take sensible precautions
to better secure corporate information. Technology has to be kept as simple as
possible for users to adopt as second nature, without significantly impacting
their productivity.
For more information:
Peter Davin, CEO Cryptzone Group
Email:peter.davin(at)cryptzone.com
Tel: +46 701 - 839 199
About the Cryptzone Group:
The Cryptzone Group is a technology innovator of proactive controls to mitigate
IT security risk. We bring together the people, processes and technology to
mitigate information security risks identified in the four key areas of Policy
Compliance, Content Security, Secure Access and Endpoint Security. Headquartered
in Sweden, the company has offices in the UK, USA and Poland, as well as an
extensive partner network with more than 150 global partners. For more
information about the company and its solutions, visitwww.cryptzone.com.
Cryptzone's share is listed on First North, Sweden, the Nordic alternative
market operated by NASDAQ OMX. Certified Adviser is Thenberg & Kinde
Fondkommission AB.
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