While most of the corporate world went into Holiday Hibernation for the last two weeks of the year, we continued to scour the webscape on your behalf. And it’s a good thing we did, because there are at least a couple of interesting items you might have missed.

Both of these fit a common theme, and it’s something that should be on your front burner this year. In the face of increased cybercrime and intrusions, if there is going to be a Year of Security, 2012 should be it. More...

Cybercrime -- criminal activity over the Internet, computers, and networks --  is pervasive, and no company is too big or too small to be affected. According to one study, companies experience an average of one successful security breach each week. Take, for example, the much-publicized incident on April 4.  More...

For the first time in history, the number of smartphones sold worldwide exceeded the number of PC sales in the fourth quarter of 2010: 100 million smartphones versus 92 million PCs.  In fact, smartphones grew 72 percent in 2010. Tablets are not far behind.  More than 17 million tablets were sold last year and Gartner forecasts 2011 tablet sales will reach almost 45 million.  That is a remarkable 164 percent growth rate. More...

Just recently, Cisco released its 2010 Security Survey highlighting the leading IT risks affecting the enterprise.  Each threat identified in the survey is related to either mobility or the Internet. Interestingly, for as much hype as security in the cloud receives, it ranked the lowest of the security risks as reported by the 511 companies interviewed around the world. More...

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, brought to you by the National Cyber Security Alliance. Of course, you should be aware every month, because the Bad Guys are operating every day, 24 hours a day. That’s why in 2008 more than 1.6 million malicious codes were identified, or more than 4,000 a day, 182 every hour on average. The only good news, from a U.S. standpoint, is that while the U.S. was the top country of attack origin last year, accounting for 25 percent of worldwide activity, that share was down from 29 percent in 2007. More...