RSA Preview: 5 Hot Security Worries

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http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/intrusion-prevention/232601436

By Mathew J. Schwartz
InformationWeek
February 25, 2012

If there's one IT realm that hasn't been quiet over the past year, it's 
information security.

"It's been a crazy year. There've just been so many incidents," said 
Hugh Thompson, chief security strategist at People Security. "There've 
been so many of these--whatever you want to call them--advanced 
persistent threats, advanced attacks. What does it mean for big 
businesses and how security has to change?"

That's the big question for this year's RSA conference, which is one of 
the country's largest gatherings of information security aficionados. 
Kicking off Monday in San Francisco, here are some of the hottest 
security topics on tap:


1. Securing Employees' Smartphones and Tablets

Mobile devices are highly portable and easy to use. Accordingly, it's a 
no-brainer that employees use them to store sensitive business 
information. But the devices, being small and portable, have a habit of 
getting lost or stolen. In addition, they're increasingly under attack 
from growing quantities of mobile malware.

That means securing mobile devices poses a massive headache for 
enterprise IT groups, as evidenced by the topic's conference-paper 
popularity. "We started a half track this year for mobile, thinking we'd 
get some good submissions," said Thompson, who serves as the RSA 
conference's program committee chair. "As it turned out, we couldn't 
contain it in that half track, and they've just spilled over 
everywhere."

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