Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of VAD (value added distributor) Wick Hill Group, which specialises in secure IT infrastructure solutions and convergence, describes how the company has not just survived, but also prospered during the recession, having increased sales by 49% in the last three years. The company was recently named by Deloitte as one of the Top 1000 best performing businesses through the recession.
Hamburg: The German IT security specialist gateprotect continues its growth process and reports a significant increase in turnover for the past business year. The extraordinarily positive development of the business in 2012 was enabled by a great number of new international partnerships with top distributors, a new management team as well as successful new products and services.
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.
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.
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