If the number of devices talking to your network was about to increase from 50 to 850,000, you might be a little daunted. One person facing precisely this nightmare is Ian Appleby, corporate IT security manager for NSW energy distributor, Endeavour Energy. He sums up his greatest challenge in three words: New emerging technologies.

Operating in a hyper-connected world, the major concern that is foremost on the CIO's priority list is security. The emergence of convergence technologies, mobility and new delivery models like cloud has only further spurred the growth in security.

Why is it such a struggle to work in security? Show me a security professional who hasn’t felt misunderstood and undervalued. Who hasn’t complained that they are treated like a pariah? What are we missing? Is it our fault or is the world not ready for us yet? Does a major security breach have to happen before the penny drops?

To use Cloud computing securely requires companies to know where their data is stored and who has access to it. Ironically, the reason Cloud is so popular is because organisations don't want to worry about these details.

So can the issue be solved by adhering to standards? Increasing legislation? Maybe we need a global technical disaster to ‘sober up’ an industry drunk on the power of Moore's Law.

Security analysts have been predicting the emergence of mobile malware for many years. In 2011, the criminals have finally come through by attacking Google's popular Android OS. Meanwhile, the sophistication of Stuxnet — anasty piece of code that infected a nuclear power facility — has alarmed researchers who believegovernments are stockpiling tools for cyberwar. Looking ahead, it seems a cataclysmic Cloud failure is just around the corner.

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