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2013: IT world from the gurus' crystal glasses

It’s the time of year again when IT security experts predict what they think the year might bring.

Oded Comay, CTO of ForeScout, predicts:

Prediction #1: Smartphones and Tablets become the Enterprises’ “Trojan Horse”

This existing trend of increasing mobile malware will continue through 2013. This is of course a problem for consumers, but it is more-and-more an enterprise issue because of the skyrocketing presence of mobile operating systems on enterprise networks.

: HANNAH RAFFERTY; InfoSecurity; Posted On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:40

IT Oracles predicts what is to come in 2013

It’s the time of year again when IT security experts predict what the year will bring.

.Justin Coker, VP of EMEA Markets, Skybox Security, predicts:

Tasked with ensuring the success of business-changing IT initiatives from mobile and BYOD to virtualization and cloud services, IT security is finding that existing security controls and processes create complexity instead of reducing risks. At the same time, highly publicized breaches and new forms of attacks have raised awareness of the business impact of cyber threats to the board level. It’s time to reinvent your security approach – here are our 2013 predictions.

: HANNAH RAFFERTY; InfoSecurity; Posted On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:28

Avecto says latest Java zero-day – and future issues - can easily be solved

MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM: Commenting on the active hacker exploitation of the latest Java zero-day vulnerability - which has already been included in the BlackHole and Cool Exploit kits - Avecto says this is an IT security disaster in progress, as there is currently no patch available for the problem.

: REGINE HARTMANN; InfoSecurity; Posted On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:21

Prolexic witnessed another of record growth...revenue increased 63% and bookings up 97% in 2012

Significant investments in staffing, R&D and infrastructure to accommodate growth

HOLLYWOOD, FL: Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services, has announced that it delivered another year of record growth in 2012.