Mobile and Cloud Computing Face Emerging Threats

December 10, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from CIO Insight. Author: Karen A. Frenkel.

At last month’s annual Georgia Tech Cyber Security Summit, security experts from academia, private industry and government gathered to discuss new technologies and strategies to ward off sophisticated cyber-attacks. The resulting report, "Emerging Cyber Threats," discusses emerging threats, their potential impact and countermeasures. The report notes that organizations face a dilemma: they must protect information from data-stealing malware while allowing employees to efficiently access data in order to do their jobs.

"With recent revelations of data collection by the federal government, we will continue to see a focus on cloud security," says Wenke Lee, director of Georgia Tech’s information security Center. "But encryption in the cloud often impacts data accessibility and processing speed. So we are likely to see increased debate about the tradeoffs between security, functionality and efficiency."…

The report addresses losing control of cloud data, insecure connected devices, how hackers are adapting to mobile, the high cost of defending against cyber-attacks, the rise in cyber-security insurance purchases, and information manipulation advances. Below are highlights of the mobility and cyber insurance sections. To view the full report, click here

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