Gartner: Top 10 future strategic IT predictions

	Study links phishing vulnerabilities to personality traits | AppRiver filters catch 3.5 billion spam emails in August, US largest point of origin
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	Gartner: Top 10 future strategic IT predictions Gartner opened its Symposium/ITxpo extravaganza with a bit of good news: Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3.6% increase from 2013. But with that growth there are big changes afoot and as Gartner will, it took a look at what some of the biggest changes - including the impact of 3D printing, automation and security threats -- will mean for anyone involved in IT. Read... Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NeuStar Hoping for answers on DDoS? Want to hear proven strategies? Knowing is half the battle. Learn from experts in: • Government • Industry • Research & analysis Join us for DDoS Awareness Day From Hope to Strategy A live virtual event hosted by Neustar, sponsored by CSO │October 23, 2013 Register to Reserve Your Space Now In this Issue Study links phishing vulnerabilities to personality traits AppRiver filters catch 3.5 billion spam emails in August, US largest point of origin Network Forensics: A Burgeoning Big Data Security Analytics Category Despite risk of aiding hackers, experts favor disclosing vulnerabilities Source code and 2.9 million accounts raided by attackers in Adobe breach 5 Wi-Fi security myths you must abandon now Raising awareness quickly: A brief overview on phishing Adobe hack shows subscription software vendors lucrative targets Attention, CISOs: Strategy is the only security WHITE PAPER: AT&T How to navigate the ever-changing mobile device landscape Smartphones, tablets, social networks, and cloud services are all popular, incredibly useful, and a security risk. These days, the security focus is on mobile devices, as they tend to be used a lot to work with corporate information. Learn More Study links phishing vulnerabilities to personality traits A new report from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University has linked susceptibility to phishing scams to personality traits, noting that women may be more vulnerable to men. Read More AppRiver filters catch 3.5 billion spam emails in August, US largest point of origin AppRiver, an email and web security solutions provider, has released its Global Threatscape Report for the month of September, documenting the amount of spam traffic caught by the company's email filters in August of this year. While the report does provide information about specific malware threats -- like the fact that X.UPX.App.pakuberc was the most common malware threat in August based on frequency of appearance in email traffic -- it also offered valuable information about the fluctuation of spam frequency and its countries of origin. Read More Network Forensics: A Burgeoning Big Data Security Analytics Category According to ESG research, 49% of enterprise organizations suffered a successful malware attack over the past two years (note: "successful" implies that the malware compromised an IT asset and caused some type of impact such as a system re-imaging, data theft, downtime, etc.). Of these firms, 20% suffered 10 or more successful malware attacks. Read More WHITE PAPER: New Relic Secure, Reliable & Proven APM for the Enterprise Your organization depends on your web applications to do business -- from customer facing eCommerce,banking or travel applications, to mission-critical applications for your employees or partners. When it comes to performance, visitors' expectations for service and reliability are high. Read Now Despite risk of aiding hackers, experts favor disclosing vulnerabilities A recent Microsoft presentation on the ethics of disclosing vulnerabilities before a patch is available sparked a debate Thursday among experts who tended to lean in favor of releasing information sooner than later. Read More Source code and 2.9 million accounts raided by attackers in Adobe breach In a blog post on Thursday, Adobe said that during a security audit sometime around September 17, the company discovered that attackers had accessed Adobe customer IDs, as well as encrypted passwords. In addition to IDs and passwords, Adobe Chief Security Officer, Brad Arkin, said that the attackers also accessed customer names, encrypted credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates and "other information." Read More 5 Wi-Fi security myths you must abandon now Wi-Fi has evolved over the years, and so have the techniques for securing your wireless network. An Internet search could unearth information that's outdated and no longer secure or relevant, or that's simply a myth. Read More WHITE PAPER: FICO Deliver Customer Value with Big Data Analytics Big Data requires that companies adopt a different method in understanding today's consumer. Read this white paper to learn why Big Data is not just another passing trend. Learn more. Raising awareness quickly: A brief overview on phishing In a series of posts for National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Rapid7 is releasing a set of easily emailed user awareness notes. With permission, and because we fully support the notion of raising awareness when it comes to security topics, CSO has published the letter below. Read More Adobe hack shows subscription software vendors lucrative targets Adobe on Thursday admitted that hackers broke into its network and stole personal information, including an estimated 2.9 million credit cards, illustrating the lucrative target that software-by-subscription providers have become to cyber criminals. Read More Attention, CISOs: Strategy is the only security According to the 2013 Chief Information Security Officers survey by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), 75 percent of CISOs responded that external attacks had increased. When asked what the main areas of risk as percentage of the overall risk are, 70 percent of CISOs responded that web applications represent an area of risk higher than network infrastructure. Read More
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