Threat | Trends

• Subjective views (multiple sources)

  • Decentralized multi-vendor systems make it harder to rely on vendors to detect and close vulnerabilities
    • Some vulnerabilities can’t be closed by software vendors... closure has to come from overworked application and web programmers
  • Increasing complexity of software increases the probability and number of vulnerabilities
    • Some experts more pessimistic today than two years ago

• Number of good hacker tools is increasing, making it easier to hack

  • Even for the technically-challenged “script-kiddies”
  • Internet provides powerful opportunities for knowledge-sharing, collaboration
  • Copying costs are negligible