Threat #1 Malicious Insiders (Rising Threat)
Threat #2 Malware (Steady Threat)
Threat #3 Exploited Vulnerabilities (Weakening Threat)
Threat #4 Social Engineering (Rising Threat)
Threat #5 Careless Employees (Rising Threat)
Threat #6 Reduced Budgets (Rising Threat)
Threat #7 Remote Workers & Road Warriors (Steady Threat)
Threat #8 Unstable 3rd Party Providers (Rising Threat)
Threat #9 Downloaded Software Including Open Source and P2P files (Steady Threat)
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Top 9 IT security threats for 2009
That last one is absolutely hilarious considering open source software contains a lot fewer bugs that Microsoft's Windows!
ReplyDeleteObviously written by someone in a hurry, his boss probably told him he needed to come up with 9 threats so he made them up.
The Biggest security threat of 2009, as far as I am concerned, Viruses and Botnets due to insecure windows Machines.