Top 10 Security & Privacy Challenges in 2010Center for Security & Privacy Solutions |
To help our clients and Center for Security & Privacy Solutions visitors understand the most pressing issues, we’ve gathered information on top security and privacy challenges that our clients will face this upcoming year.
Top Ten Security & Privacy Challenges
- Increase in sophisticated cyber criminals
- Data leakage
- Mobile security
- Adaptive authentification
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Balancing sharing with privacy requirements
- Social media strategies
- Identity access strategies and lifecycle
- Cybersecurity workforce
- Operationalizing security
At the highest level, the management challenge to address these issues has never been greater. Let’s take a look at a few driving the need for change in the way we manage security.
Balancing Sharing with Privacy Requirements
End-users, customers and clients want information. They want dynamic access to data; however, they also expect that security & privacy concerns will be addressed. This continues to challenge most organizations. While many organizations are getting “their own house in order”, very few have figured out the standards and mechanisms that they will use for creating a federated security framework and model. Small and mid-size companies will more likely be points of entry for security threats and big enterprises need to pay close attention to third party suppliers and take a proactive stance on security issues.
Social Media
Social Media makes the top ten list as more individuals and organizations makes use of social media vehicles .There needs to be a stronger emphasis on security & privacy in these environments. There are personal and often business benefits to social networking, but organizations must take due diligence and care when participating in these online opportunities. The breach of personal information in this environment has been well documented in the past, and we now know that there are people and organized crime willing to take advantage of these weaknesses.
Mobile Devices
As mobile devices become more ingrained in individuals’ lives, they tend to contain more financial, medical, corporate, and personal information, ripe for exploitation. Also, as we see mobile devices become a conduit for financial transactions, the need for security will grow. Organizations need to build strategies to protect information end-to-end – through various channels and access points.
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