A unified framework for it security - analysis - [IT security]

In IT security, the nature of the threat landscape is ever changing, ever volatile. Incidents of cyber crime are rising steadily, as is the cost and complexity of protecting enterprise systems and information from hackers, viruses, and other strains of malware. Cases of phishing and identity theft are also escalating. Social networking sites have, arguably, introduced additional vulnerabilities into the picture, as has the threat of criminal activity from imposters posing as legitimate users. Twenty-first century ´cyber society´ has created a generation of e-criminals who individually and collectively have the power to cause significant harm to national economies, upset the running of our national infrastructures, and beset the forces of law and order. Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) run by QinetiQ on behalf of the UK government´s Technology Strategy Board has launched a high-level international Roadmap document on the future of information security, privacy, and assurance. This Roadmap is the combined output of over 50 organisations around the world which all contributed to the research. They include industry leaders like Microsoft, the UK Cabinet Office, and the US Department of Defence.