Enterprises want simple answers to solve complex security issues in 2009

Enterprises want simple answers to solve complex security issues in 2009

By Goh Chee Hoh, Managing Director, Trend Micro, Asia South and Hong Kong | Jan 7, 2009

The security market for enterprises is definitely growing because cyber criminals will not stop their criminal activities even in this time of a global financial crisis.

In the current environment, a new virus is created every seven seconds and the speed in which these viruses are apreading is phenomenal. Trend Micro data shows that we now see more virus samples in a month than we have seen in the past 20 years and security professionals are now more concerned than ever about the way malicious files are being spread online.

Enterprises should, and must be, concerned about the web threat movement because of the level of sophistication that these threats possess. We know that they are somewhat similar to organized crime and are motivated by monetary gains through the use of the online threats, hence we see an increasing number of web threats that are more targeted and focused, rather than the standard en-masse type threats a couple of years ago.

Enterprises rely on security solutions to help guard their corporate reputation, image and brand, because the collapse in credibility of any of these can result in a loss of billions of dollars – hence businesses want to ensure that sensitive business data and intellectual property is guarded from unauthorized access. Customer information, patented products and other business critical data can be compromised and lost without the proper installation of a security solution.

Looking back in 2008

In the security industry, we’ve seen how Web activities made a huge increase in the first six month of the year. Within four months, Web threats spiked by 35 million globally – hitting an all time high of 50 million Web threats in March this year as compared to 15 million in December of 2007.

Trend Micro’s Internet Security Threat figures showed that although an upswing in Web threats took place in the first half of 2008, there was also a steady decrease in adware and spyware that were generated by outdated technical methods which could no longer compete with high-level security solutions.

 
 

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