Beating the stealth threat in IT security

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If you look at what's happening today, there are two major driving forces for security at the moment.

One is clearly that the threat landscape is changing significantly. It's changing in a sense that it becomes more stealthy, more invisible and more targeted. And that certainly creates quite a challenge for our customers - for organisations that are using IT.

The second force that I see, which poses quite a significant challenge, is around the fact that IT environments are changing today.

The IT environment is changing in the sense that there are new devices in what was historically a very Windows-centric PC-based architecture. It is really becoming a very heterogeneous environment today with Macintosh being very successful and with tablets coming into the organisation and being a big part of the IT environment.

All of that of course creates a new set of security challenges for any organisation.

The industry, including ourselves, is clearly looking at how we can solve some of those security problems with new approaches to solve those heterogeneous environments, but also to solve security or an environment that is becoming a cloud-based delivery model.

Enterprise software is more and more moving into the cloud, being delivered as a cloud application.

Of course there are security implications to that as well. This is really what we are focusing on as an organisation, to solve some of those problems.