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Tuesday, 7 January 2014
McAfee recent report on trends, which
will dominate the security industry in India in the near future, states
that data centers will have to make security their prime concern to
combat advanced malware threats. US-based McAfee said in a report, "Data
centres are the nerve centre of an organisation making data centre
security a top priority for most companies today." The report added that
the limits between virtual and physical are blurring as organisations
are moving towards next generation data centers.
The report highlighted that
organisations have to move from single security solution for issues like
bring your own device (BYOD) to other solutions available. The report
states that companies need to adopt advanced threat defense solutions to
respond to attacks faster and move from analysis to protection and
resolution.
"BYOD needs to be looked at from
different dimensions like data loss prevention, network access control,
internal intrusion prevention systems, authentication system, internal
firewalls, securing Wi-Fi etc," it added. The report added that Indian SMB's like
chartered accountants, law firms have a greater chance of cyber attacks.
These small businesses have less secure systems due to lack of budgets
and knowledge and are more prone to cyber attacks.
A previous report McAfee Labs Threats for Third Quarter 2013, stated that there has been a massive increase in Ransomware.
The report added that there has been more threats in the first half of
2013 than all previous incidents combined. McAfee reported more than
700,000 new malware in Q3,2013 an increase of 35 percent.