Cyber-criminals by and large don’t work to annual schedules. But as a new year rolls around again, there’s a valuable opportunity for organizations to take stock of their IT security posture and consider where the key threats lie over the coming 12 months. One major area highlighted in Trend Micro’s 2017 predictions report, The Next Tier, is in the number of software bugs discovered in non-Microsoft platforms.
It’s a trend we think will continue as Adobe and Apple outpace Microsoft in terms of newly discovered vulnerabilities. That’s going to make vulnerability shielding and better, multi-layered endpoint threat protection a must for organizations as we head into 2017.
