Market trends

No one can deny that the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend is accelerating unabated. Increasingly, workers are picking the platform of their choice rather than accept an IT standard issue device, and paying for their own smartphones and monthly plans. As a result, more and more organizations are opening up their networks to non-corporate devices, and are seeing everything from iPads to the latest Android gadget walk through their doors.

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According to the survey, individuals are using more mobile devices, applications, services and networks than ever before and they are accessing critical personal and professional information while "on the go."

Information security is one of the biggest challenges facing enterprises this year. Being hacked by criminals is becoming depressingly familiar for a many businesses.

Geography appears to play a role in frequency of observed attacks on specific ports. For example, Port 23 (Telnet) is a favorite target for attacks observed to be originating from South Korea and Turkey, where it accounted for more than five times the number of attacks targeting the next most popular port (445 in both countries). Other instances of geography-based port targeting include observed attacks centered on Port 1433 (Microsoft SQL Server) in China and on Port 80 (WWW/HTTP) in Indonesia.