Alan Calder on IT Governance, information security & ISO 27001

The Message Labs 2006 Annual Report makes interesting reading – the most important section, though, is the chapter dealing with their projections for 2007. They forecast a continuing increase in spam, growth in the threat to users of Instant Messaging, and substantial growth in phishing attacks, domain kiting, and increasing encryption strength in ransom-ware. The suggestion that Windows Vista will be relatively quickly targeted is an issue that should be taken into account when considering upgrading.

Finally, the indication that low level, targeted attacks against businesses are likely to rise to 20 per day should be enough to get any semi-sane security manager paranoid about network security.

SearchSecurity.com has published an interesting review of information security in 2006. Looking back at 2006 contains top security-related interviews of 2006, accessible in the form of a podcast. It’s a useful retrospective when considering 2007 and its upcoming challenges!