A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR IT SECURITY

摘要

The IT security sector must take a more unified approach to establishing industry-wide standards for all aspects of secure systems build and maintenance. IN IT security, the nature of the threat landscape is ever changing, ever volatile. Incidents of cyber crime are rising steadily, as is the cost and complexity of protecting enterprise systems and information from hackers, viruses, and other strains of malware. Cases of phishing and identity theft are also escalating. Social networking sites have, arguably, introduced additional vulnerabilities into the picture, as has the threat of criminal activity from imposters posing as legitimate users.