1/21/2011 4:03:44 PM
IT Security news: What were the biggest Security stories of 2010?
I’m sitting on a train, looking ahead, planning, getting excited
about 2011, and thinking a little bit about 2010. It got me
considering the biggest IT security stories of 2010. So which was
the biggest?
Was it the £600-odd million allocated to fight online cyber
attacks in the UK?
Was it these very same threats that led to Ministers having a
blanket ban on using Apple iPhones?
In tandem with this the RIM vs. iPhone war continued to be waged
- odd given most organisations feel the iPhone isn't secure enough
for them.
Then we had the delivery of services via the Cloud and how this
was causing thought-clusters in the heads of IT leaders the nation
over.
And with the advent of Cloud Computing arriving, what exactly
are the risks - I keep hearing concerns about the risks, but can
someone actually articulate them to me please?
Going back to the iPhone (are these devices ever far from our
thoughts?), will 2011 bring a wave of consumer devices into the
workplace? Over 700 tablets were shown at the Consumer Electronics
Show earlier this month - how will businesses secure them?
The Information Commissioners Office finally started dishing out
data loss fines - one was £500k alone.
They are just a few headlines that sprang to my mind - do you
have any others to add to the mix? perhaps stories that have real
security implications for 2011?
On the positive side, the increasing exposure placed on
IT
security risk can only mean on thing for IT security job seekers,
more investement in IT
security!
Damian Hicklin
IT
Security & Communications Manager
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