13 security threats to counter in 2013

Almost half (47 per cent) of enterprises predict a larger IT security spend in 2013, according to a 451 Research report. Although the average increase is likely to be in the up to 10 per cent region, some 11 per cent of those increasing budgets were looking at a jump of between 11 per cent and 24 per cent over last year’s budgets. Simply throwing money to react to IT security problems is not a solution, however, and in order to best protect the enterprise you need to be proactive. Any intelligence that allows you to predict the kind of threats that may impact upon your business will help in tweaking your security policy, and spending, accordingly. With this in mind, IT Pro has been asking those at the coal face of the fight against insecurity to look into their crystal balls. Here are our top 13 enterprise security threats for 2013..