This is when everyone has a top ten list for just about anything. This is also when the top ten “cybersecurity predictions” are listed.

Sys-Con has done us all a favor and aggregated a bunch of these lists.

SANS says that custom malware, IPv6 and social media are big security issues for 2012.

Websense looks at blended attacks and social media identity among its security predictions for next year.

And Gartner has a special report addressing the continuing trend toward cloud, mobile, data management and context-aware computing. All “loss of control” issues.

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