Your Identity in 2009

While 2008 was marked with grand achievements and ground breaking headlines, 2009 promises to be a year of uncertainty for some and success for others. With an increase of unemployment and the possibility of more upcoming lay offs, stress, revenge and anger compound the air of uncertainty.

Businesses will try to cut back on costs and optimize on cheaper marketing tools that will draw attention to their products and services.This will involve increased use of the Internet. There will also be an increase in home workers trying to see if they can make ends meet as freelancers. While these two possibilities open the door of opportunity on one aspect for some, it secretly signs the contract for hackers and identity thieves to work, if careful security step are thrown through the window.

With uncertain times ahead, the attention will be on how to survive the rough waters and just one lapse in attention will guarantee cash in on sensitive information by hackers and identity thieves. Some companies might suffer frequent attacks as laid off employees seek their revenge to what seemed a ”closed door in the face” approach after years of dedicated and loyal service, the result, cyber chaos.

Forced to do more with less staff backup, trained IT professionals will not be able to tap all the holes that may compromise sensitive data.There will be an increase in cloud computing and special attention by the companies and the clients involved will have to take place to ensure the security of data. Involvement on the customer´s part will not only save him from future headaches, he will not mindlessly be endorsing his own defeat. Questions like who has access to privileged information?,How will the data be recovered if there is an act of God?,What security measures have been endorsed to secure sensitive information?,and What will happen if these is loss of data?, are just the first research steps to ensuring ones identity safety before increasing the use of cloud computing.

2009 will be a year of caution and tension as many government officials will be trying to home in on possible terrorist that seek to write the pages of history with their acts, even the simplest man will be watched from the cyber TV. To combat the cyber threats there will have to be double security protection using a series of security measures that make it difficult to access confidential data. This will involve the use of encrypted data, access security,user access security and policies that govern data leak protection. As we turn the page of 2008 we gear our attention to the frightening headline regarding Terry Child, and we see how vulnerable we are in the hands of the ‘big one’.