Happy Holidays and Happy New Year

Dave G. | December 24th, 2008 | Filed Under: Navel Gazing

Just wanted to wish our customers, our readers, the blogosphere, the internet, the world, and the universe a happy holiday season.   With an economic decline and mass layoffs, IT security budgets are going to get smaller.  Security teams will have to do more with less. 

Meanwhile, an economic downturn will increase motivations to commit crime (including computer based).  And motivations aren’t the only thing increasing.  Attacker sophistication always goes up.  Every year, attackers get more and more sophisticated, and no matter how much improvement we make in application security, there still seems to be enough critical security vulnerabilities out there to keep everyone frantically patching.

I promised that I wasn’t going to do a predictions blog post, because next year predictions are like new years resolutions.  They seem important on January 1st, and by February 1st you can’t even remember what they were.  But, I do have one prediction:

We are going to see an increase in stupid, stupid insider attacks.  People who just get mad at their employers and try to inflict damage.  

No matter what happens, 2009 is going to be an interesting year for the information security space. 

Happy Holidays!