In an era where it is predicted that 70 percent of a CIO’s budget is allocated to IT operations, virtualization makes business sense. With virtual resources, system administrators can focus their attention on a limited number of abstract device pools that can be centrally managed, rather than on a plethora of complex proprietary devices that must be individually managed. However, consideration needs to be taken on how virtualization impacts all environments in an organization, including a potential increase in security threats.
Interest in web application security is growing but not as fast as the market can bear. According to a recent scan by Web Application Security Consortium, as much as 96.85% of scanned websites have high vulnerability.
There has always been constant pressure on governments to adopt and spearhead IT initiatives from the business and consumer communities. As the sheer number of internet users increases exponentially, the only logical next-step is to transit from IPv4 to IPv6, which grants greater flexibility in handling addresses and routing traffic.
