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How Will
CIOs Meet
Growing
Security
Threats?
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
When it comes to protecting enterprise data, CIOs and CSOs are at a crossroads. The complexity and prevalence of security threats continue to grow, bolstered by consumer IT and mobility. The open nature of IT has
paved the way for far more sophisticated attacks—beyond conventional credit card data theft to multilevel
attacks. Information security executives face perhaps the toughest challenge of their careers.
The business requires and expects total freedom and choice in technology, yet risks come from any number
of places: users at their desks, users working from many different mobile devices and unsecured networks,
and users downloading applications at will from the Web. Corporate integration with social media sites
provides a new path for malware to the network—not to mention privacy risks and even identity theft.
Hackers still have many more opportunities to grab enterprise data and are getting smarter by the day.
Given the pace of change in our Web-based mobile world, who knows what next month will bring?
