Last year we witnessed an event caused due to security vulnerability – the retail giant in US, Target Company, created a world record of 40 million credit cards’ data leakage. Before long, the largest building materials retailer in US, HomeDpot, also admitted nearly 56 million of credit cards got hacked due to the hacker attacks. Besides, the artware retailer Michaels, charitable second-hand store Goodwill and advanced department store chains Neiman Marcus were all attached by hackers. After that, the biggest leakadge event in the history broke out – J.P. Morgan Chase’s computer system got invaded by hackers, causing the private information (including name, address, phone number and email address) leakage of about 83 million families and small enterprises. At last, hackers entered Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computers, stole 100TB data of films and internal files and published them online.
No industry escaped by sheer luck in 2014. The largest international e-commercial platform eBay got attacked, causing data leakage of many users. So the company had to require 145 million users to change their passcodes. The photo sharing ap Snapchat also suffered the photo leakage of 200 thousand due to hacker attack. Many of those photos are involved boundtry-pushing contents and brought about very bad influence. Other than these media companies, financial institutes, tech companies, even government organizations and medical health institutions failed to survive. The influenced scope was never this large. During the attacks, researchers also discovered a plenty of vulnerabilities in the Internet insfrastructure, including the “Shellshock”, “Heartbleed” and “POODLE”.
Of course, the Internet events having been published are just a small part of the loss. It’s estimated that network security events in 2014 caused a loss of billions of dollars. Therefore, many companies started to pay attention on this and greatly increased their budgets towards network security, which could keep increasing as our estimate.
Let’s see the following six top market dynamics of network sercurity. We believe the efforts would change the current status, bringing us a different 2015.
1. Releasing automatic emergency plans.
2. Cloud security becomes the corperation responsibility.
3. Increasing advanced constant threats.
4. Alliance of network security manufacturers.
5. Increasing number of the merging and purchasing network security areas.
6. Great prospect of network security.
