When it comes to sizing up the privacy agenda for 2011, the tone at the top of organizations is all about improving data security, says privacy expert and lawyer Lisa Sotto.
Cyber criminals typically will move on to a target that is much less secure but those behind advanced persistent threats will spend months if not years trying to penetrate an IT system until they succeed, says Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee Labs threat research vice president.
Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee Labs threat research vice president, discusses the company's annual threat predictions, saying: "We are seeing an escalating threat landscape in 2011."
"If you at all have any inclination of allowing Internet access in your company networks, you need a social media policy," says Hemu Nigam, former CSO at MySpace.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has become akin to a "cyber messiah," Hemu Nigam says. And Assange's followers have proven: "If you turn your back on our messiah, we are going to take you down."
Devising strategies for ensuring social media are not used in ways that violate patient privacy is one of the top trends for 2011, says Lisa Gallagher, senior director of privacy and security at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
One-third of students who gave up social media for a week say they felt less stressed by not having to compulsively check updates and posts on social networks.
Looking ahead to the new year, Kristin Lovejoy of IBM says information security organizations face a host of global compliance issues - and the complexity of this challenge may be the biggest task of 2011.
Hemu Nigam says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has become akin to a "cyber messiah" And Assange's followers have proven: "If you turn your back on our messiah, we are going to take you down."
Figuring out a way to make sure health information exchanges play by the same rules when sharing data nationally is proving to be a very difficult task.
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