Your own smartphone could be the biggest security weakness for your agency this year. Howard Schmidt is former cyber-security coordinator of the Obama Administration. He’s now executive director of Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code and a partner in the strategic advisory firm Ridge-Schmidt Cyber.
Schmidt picks his t top three cybersecurity trends for 2014:
1. Targeting mobile devices will increase as use of mobile devices are increasingly used in the business world.
2. Exploitation of software for zero-day vulnerabilities will become big business at the same time software developers will take key steps to develop software that have less vulnerabilities and more secure.
3. While the cloud providers continue to build more and better security, the focus for exploitation will move to the end user as the weakest link.