Industry will witness more and more sophisticated and organized crime in information security landscape in 2011. Threats will be multi-edged and much more powerful. Industry, researchers and global security companies will have to work together to create a safer computing landscape for 2011.

merging Cyber Threats Reports worldwide indicate botnets as one of the most serious threats for 2011. The complicated and sophisticated nature of the advanced botnets claims much more vigorous attention from security researchers and scientists worldwide.

loud computing has emerged as a strong item for consideration in internet based computing software and infrastructure access. With this have come options such as use of private, public or hybrid clouds and associated questions on security and where cloud computing fits in everyday

Today with every another minute passed we have another zero-day coming up. From some part of the world, a hacker discovers some or other vulnerability in some program X (here might be used by Jill) and exploits are developed for it at the next moment. To keep pace with the ever increasing threats, each organization, each Content Security company has been deploying newer techniques to counter them. Patches are now being released every fortnight. Each zero-day, announced is taken with utmost priority and is fixed asap.

Every big business companies have trade secrets and sensitive information to protect. These trade secrets when compromised pose not only a threat to an individual, but to the whole company. In this brief article, we give a insight into the protection of trade secrets and confidential business information.

We all know that Research In Motion is the principal supplier and service provider of the popular Blackberry the world over. But the super secretive RIM still does not reveal its manufacturing supply chain of Blackberry. In this brief article, we reveal you the RIM’s five biggest suppliers that manufactures your blackberry phones known for its controversial encryption system.

Last year a top executive from Microsoft proposed that quarantining infected computer from the Internet is a better idea. However this grand idea in a practical world is highly debatable. In this brief article, we discuss the various complications and other factors behind this proposal.

Social media is an unprecedented phenomenon opening new worlds of opportunity for every organization. While the potential and rewards are seemingly limitless, so are the challenges and risks.