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2010 security trends and other predictions

4/1/2010 1:31 PM | By Weena Tan
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 Play or download the Patch Monday podcast below:



A reliable system needs a solid foundation — and that includes security. What are the emerging trends?

In the final Patch Monday for 2009, Mark Goudie, who heads up the forensics practice for Verizon Business Asia-Pacific, has some alarming statistics. Amongst them, 91 per cent of the intrusions they detect seem to be connected to organised crime, and that networks are often breached for seven months before it's discovered.

There are further scary statistics and detailed case studies in Verizon's Business 2009 Supplemental Report or the complete 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report.

Source:  Patch Monday by Stilgherrian - Nobody's safe as Stilgherrian turns his laser focus onto Australia's IT industry in a weekly podcast.

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• Sahel says:

  1/14/2013 11:02:44 AM

  Your terminology is a bit dated.It depedns on what you have legal access to.Almost no one needs to do this work any more since there are hundreds of thousands already in existence that we can copy from usually we have legal access to a prior one that we can copy, modify to meet the new needs.A tiny company start up can purchase a computer package that includes what they need.A large conglomerate will have what the smaller companies had before they combined, and the issue is growth and new features to meet evolving needs.99% of the work involves modifying some packaged software that the company bought or leased, which can include adding programs.The actual tools are highly dependent on computer platforms, operating systems, languages, etc. in which the names for those tools will be meaningless to a person who is working on a different set of platforms OS etc.The tools I use include:* different kinds of middleware interfaces dumb terminal, PC, VPN, client access, operations navigator, command lines* different editors, but mainly PDM (Program Development Manager)* different programming languages RPG SQL DDS CL SDA (all on AS/400)* different ways of portraying notes documentation, but mainly either SEU or some Microsoft tool