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A clean sweep: Bouncer helps defeat all of SC Magazine’s “Top 5 Threats” of 2010

December is a time for lists. There’s holiday wish lists, year-in-review lists, and so on.

This week, SC Magazine published its list of top security topics and stories for 2010. Among the various lists the staff compiled for the article, “IT security: The year in lists,” was the year’s “Top Five Threats”. What’s interesting is that this particular list is a mirror-image of what we’ve been blogging about all year — and that all five are threats that CoreTrace’s Bouncer application whitelisting solution help thwart.

Starting in January, we’ve written specific blogs on four of the top five threats mentioned. And the one that we haven’t blogged on, we know Bouncer can help defeat. Here is the recap:

In 2009, Symantec stopped 100 attacks per second… wonder how many were missed?

If you haven’t already come across Symantec’s new Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), ponder this — in 2009, the world’s largest security software maker blocked an average of 100 potential attacks per second. In the article, “Cybercrime’s Financial and Geographic Growth Shows No Slowdown during the Global Economic Crisis,” last year hackers were more active than ever. According to Stephen Trilling, senior VP of Symantec’s Security Technology and Response Division, the continuing growth of more sophisticated cyber threats has become an international problem that we can no longer afford to ignore. Continue reading this post…