I have taken a significant number of inquiries recently from NSS Labs’ enterprise clients to discuss the increase in the level of demand for employee-owned devices to be used on corporate networks. One of the disturbing trends is the number of CIOs admitting that end users are connecting those devices to the enterprise network with or without permission. Where security requirements and risk profiles permit, many organizations would be better advised to accommodate and control this behavior rather than attempt to prohibit it. Read more...

NSS Labs security analysts have been researching the global threat landscape for activity across three main categories: socially-engineered malware, phishing, and exploits. Over the last few years we've actively tracked numerous trends; the rise of phishing, the shift from remote to client-side exploits, the explosion of web-based malware, the increasing use of evasion and obfuscation techniques to circumvent security products, etc. (And we've incorporated these changes into our real world testing in order to give enterprise customers the most accurate product assessments available - often with shocking results.) Read more...