Major security survey reveals the blindingly obvious
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Business, Blog, Security on
The Information Security Forum has published it’s Threat Horizon 2011 list, detailing the threats which the ISF reckons will present the most challenges for information security professionals during the coming two years. Future gazing within the world of ITSec is never an easy task, there are simply too many variables and the truth of the matter is nobody knows what the next big service to take off will be and how the bad guys will end up exploiting it. Which is why, for one thing, nobody was predicting hashtag spam and Twitter based third part phishing attacks a couple of years back. It is also probably why, right at the top of the Threat Horizon list in a stonking example of predicting the future by playing it as safe as possible, is the generic threat of, wait for it, criminal attacks.
The full list looks like this:
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Criminal attacks
Weaknesses in infrastructure
Tougher statutory environment
Pressures on offshoring / outsourcing
Eroding network boundaries
Mobile malware
Vulnerabilities of Web 2.0
Incidents of espionage
Insecure user-driven development
Changing cultures
Apparently drawing upon the ‘knowledge and practical experiences of ISF Members, comprising some 300 of the world’s largest business and public sector organisations including many of the Fortune 100 corporations’ the Threat Horizon 2011 report is based upon research carried out within a ‘PLEST’ framework that takes into account Political, Legal, Economic, Socio-cultural and Technology factors.
“Many of the threats in 2011 will be familiar ones that are evolving and will present new and sophisticated attacks to compliment tried and tested techniques,” says Jason Creasey, head of research at the ISF. “It is also clear that the financial crisis is accelerating these changes, fuelled by increasing staff turnover and dissatisfaction along with the increased involvement of organised criminal groups that see online crime as a lucrative and low risk alternative to other nefarious activities.”
I don’t have access to those 300 big business brains, but I carried out my own research within a STBO framework that takes into account Stating The Blindingly Obvious and concluded that the security threats most likely to be causing us problems over the next couple of years, in no particular order as my crystal ball is on the blink, are: spam, malware, phishing, hacking, application vulnerabilities, OS vulnerabilities, malicious code and user stupidity.
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