According to an article from BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7797280.stm) cybercriminals seems to avoid the layoffs during to the financial crisis. Instead they have increased their activities during 2008..as to the surprise of no-one. Now everybody in the industry will tell everybody that wants to listen how their (the security vendors) product will chase away all the bad guys and solve all your problems. That is not often the case by the way,
First things first....the problem is a real for everyone. Unprotected data will be stolen, money will disappear from you bank account and your credit card will used by others. I meet a potential customer a while back that got its source code stolen and now was blackmailed. The thieves said that if the company would not pay they would post the source code on the Internet.
BUT the solution is not to go and buy a new point security solution, instead (which starts to be a theme in this blog)...validate what to protect ...and who should be able to access what...and then use solutions that supports your business. I bet that companies that use this model will end up with a very different security architecture that the one that is based on today’s firewall...we trust people on the inside...but no-one on the outside model.
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