Almost every day new reports of companies becoming victims of malware in one form or another are reported. Most of us look at these stories and quietly hope the same fate doesn’t befall us. A recent example is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries where a reported 80 servers and computers were infected. Once 80 computers on a network are infected what confidence would I have that the problem was isolated to just those computers? When this is coupled with a report from Trend Micro (Trend Micro finds 100% of enterprises had undetected malware), it becomes worrying just how large the scale of the problem may be.

It will be interesting to see over the coming months whether malware designed to attack behind corporate firewalls becomes significant or whether it is just too hard a target for malware writers to worry about. (more…)