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Government agencies and industry organizations alike are embracing the cultural shift toward a mobile workforce. However, managers often point to mobile workers as a data security scapegoat.

Hurtling into our annual Reboot edition, I became conscious of the break-neck speed at which 2007 has come to its end.

Email is being supplemented with real-time conversations enabled through IM and web-based applications such as blogs, wikis and webmail. Developers continue to create new enterprise applications that integrate with Facebook. It's clear that web 2.0 has officially entered the workplace.

The screaming headlines have been running for years. Whether they're in press releases about cybercrime exceeding international drug profits or the billions of dollars lost to breach disclosures or videos highlighting the meltdown of power generators due to a myriad of vulnerabilities, the anti-malware industry has long relied on fear to move their products.

Looking out across the threat landscape, it is important to remain cognizant of the various threat vectors that are open and available for enterprising individuals to act upon.

With the looming threats of publicly exposed personal data breaches, mishandled confidential partner information and lost intellectual property assets, an increasing number of enterprises are investigating options for securing data stored on both tape- and disk-based media.

For years, organizations have complained that other countries are stealing their trade secrets, leaving companies and products vulnerable to knock-offs and counterfeits. How can companies ensure that their intellectual property is safe and doesn't get into the wrong hands?

Today’s world has an unprecedented need for security. From restricting access to physical resources, such as buildings and facilities, to controlling access to IT resources such as computers and networks. Verification of identity - knowing exactly who is attempting to gain access or execute a transaction - is fundamental to any security solution.

As long as people have competed against others, whether commercially, militarily or athletically, their organizations have possessed information or practices that need to be kept secret.