2008 Internet Security Trends

The objective of the ABS website is to be an information portal for our clients and prospects. While we prefer to present original content to our clients and prospects, in our research, we sometimes come across what we consider to be best-of-breed material and want to make that available to our clients and prospects in its entirety.

We believe the following report, published by IronPort and Cisco, on the state of the spam/virus/malware industry for 2008 is a “must read” for anyone with a network…or connected to the internet. In writing this introduction, we chose our words carefully. The virus/spam/malware authors out there have literally created an industry. They are monitoring and tracking their successes and modifying code to meet their objectives. They are investing in R&D to meet their objective, which is to penetrate your defenses and insert themselves into your operating environments. They have ROI metrics on their “products” and they are working to wreak havoc on your network, your productivity, and your organization.

ABS sees this as a chess game that will run into perpetuity. There is no checkmate for those of us on the defending end of the network security game, there is only the daily battle fought to keep networks running, servers intact, and data uncompromised. The more we know about the trends in the malware industry the better prepared we will be to defend ourselves against the latest intrusion strategy. We highly recommend the following report and would be glad to discuss these ideas with you and your organization.

http://www.absnt.com/files/For-Blog/2008-Internet-Security-Trends.pdf