Security Threats Are Up, New McAfee CEO Reports

Many of the industry folks who flocked to Las Vegas this week for the Interop trade show were focused on security issues, including Dave DeWalt, McAfee's new president and CEO. In his keynote, he said that we would see more malware in the next 18 months than we have in the past 20 years. DeWalt, who has only been on the job since early April, has been busy filling many of the "holes" in his management team, he told InformationWeek. He offered some pretty startling security stats: 37,413 new pieces of malware hit the Internet last year; he estimated that one out of four people will suffer some kind of digital crime. 

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