In 2013, what are the new threats for IT companies?

Blue Coat, computer security specialist, focuses on the impact that public attacks can have on the IT business. At first glance, they are not directly affected. Unless it happens that these attacks are launched to hide the true intention of the pirates: make diversion to aim at a specific target, a client database in an organization for example.

Opening more important of is via hundreds of points of contact to the Internet facilitate this type of practice. Especially when facing the thorny and complex of the 'devices' management, CIOS are lax and tolerate low levels of infection of machines that connect to them if.

Explosion of attacks on mobile devices

Migration gradual but sustained professional devices to tablets and smartphones course gives ideas to hackers. Symantec provides that the first massive attacks on mobile OS should appear beginning this year, affecting business fleets. It passes through the establishment of networks of botnet, as on a conventional PC, or as recently announced it Symantec by the development of "ransomware" or the "rancongiciels" that target mobile devices, like batpise Android.Fakedefender, and discovered in June.

Principle of vase communicating requires, the growth of the fleets of tablets and smartphones leave a little rest to conventional systems, says Trend Micro, another computer security specialist. To the extent that the actor believes that the most intense threats to businesses should this year come from Android apps. Trend Micro provides that there will be 1 million in 2013, or 350,000 more from late 2012.

But the attacks on PC declining

We would therefore be a turning point in computer security: If threats to mobile explode, the PC in proportion tend to be less the target of hackers.

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In 2013, what are the new threats for IT companies?