Executive Guide to Information Security, The: Threats, Challenges, and Solutions

Key Points for This Chapter

• Future security threats will be more complex, and their impacts will extend from individuals and organizations to regions and the entire globe.

• Threats will also spread much more quickly, from the minutes that it took the Slammer Worm to spread to seconds in the future.

• Zero-day threats, whereby a hacker creates and releases an attack without advance notice, will occur in the future and provide additional challenges to your information security program.

• Hacker intentions will shift from notoriety (such as defacing a web site) to organized crime and terrorist organizations that are focused on money or public disruption.

• Industry solutions will need to shift to proactive security because it will no longer be possible for ...