When it comes to data protection and risk management planning, information security professionals are feeling more hopeful than ever. According to our annual "Guarding Against a Data Breach" survey, compared to previous years, a majority of IT security pros say their organizations are taking appropriate steps to protect critical data. As promising as this feedback is, one has to juxtapose it against the less upbeat happenings of our collective reality. For starters, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and other more methodical and sophisticated cyber crime attacks are becoming the norm, according to most experts. Just look to the recent attacks against The New York Times, Twitter or the U.S. Department of Energy to get a sense of things to come.
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