The prevalence of mobile devices with personally identifiable location-based information and the increasing use of social media are top concerns for 2011.
With more personal information available on the Internet, in everyday consumer applications and stored in corporate databases, risks to consumers and companies will only grow in the next year.
addition, increasing regulations and new laws will force many organizations in 2011 to review their handling of private information and implement new programs to minimize their risks. To deal with these increasing threats and obligations, more organizations will create stronger privacy policies and turn to encryption, web filtering and secure managed file transfer.
Proofpoint predicts the following trends will dominate privacy discussions in 2011:
1. The privacy and confidentiality of location-based information will become a major concern for both consumers and corporations. With the rise in mobile GPS information, companies will have to protect both personally identifiable information (PII) of employees, customers and partners, and also create new policies for handling location-based information. Not only will real-time information about location be a vulnerability, but companies will have access to information about where people (or their devices) spend much of their time.
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Source: Help Net Security
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