This document provides a summary of information security risks and trends in 2013 according to Caleb Barlow, Director of IBM Application, Data, Mobile, and Critical Infrastructure Security. Some key points covered include:
- The threat landscape and number of internet and mobile users has grown rapidly since 2000 and is becoming more mobile-centric.
- Innovative technologies like cloud, virtualization, and bring your own IT are changing the security environment.
- Motivation and sophistication of attackers is evolving, ranging from nation-state actors to organized crime to individual hackers.
- Common attack types seen in 2012 included targeted attacks, web application attacks, and distributed denial of service attacks.
- Emerging risks include social media attacks,