The growing consumerization of IT, the rapid pace of change in technology, the rise of new variants of malware, and the hack attacks carried out by cybercommunities such as LulzSec and Anonymous are putting enterprise IT under tremendous pressure. Users are increasingly bringing in their own devices for use in the enterprise, keeping IT on the hop. Meanwhile, new technologies such as near-field communications, which not only enable mobile payments but also let users transfer files between two NFC-enabled devices by tapping them together, may be opening up new vectors of attack.
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Seeking Tomorrow's Security Solutions Today, Part 1
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 21, 2011 05:00 AMThe growing consumerization of IT, the rapid pace of change in technology, the rise of new variants of malware, and the hack attacks carried out by cybercommunities such as LulzSec and Anonymous are putting enterprise IT under tremendous pressure. Users are increasingly bringing in their own devices for use in the enterprise, keeping IT on the hop. Meanwhile, new technologies such as near-field communications, which not only enable mobile payments but also let users transfer files between two NFC-enabled devices by tapping them together, may be opening up new vectors of attack.