From prediction to prophecy: The 2010 threat landscape

n January 2010, Fortinet issued a report outlining our predictions for The Top 10 Security Trends for 2010. Now that we’re midway through the year, I’ve decided to look back at those prognostications and compare and contrast them with what we have been seeing today.

1) Security, Virtually Speaking

January 2010: “Preventing infections from cross pollinating between virtual machines will be key in securing virtual movements of servers.”

June 2010: With the ongoing progression of virtualization, it becomes important to treat each virtual machine as if it were a physical box. For example, a worm could easily hop inter-VM on the same machine to another machine that has a completely different set of access credentials, creating a more potent infection. Virtualization adds another level of complexity, further widening the security gap. We have seen some interesting developments this year, including a unique Flash crash (potentially exploitable) that only occurs in a virtualized environment.

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