REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the leaders in the global information security industry gather on Monday at the signature event of the year, the annual RSA Security conference in San Francisco, the amount of malware generated during the event will continue to explode. Total Defense research reports that based on its most recent data compiled for the month of February, over the five days of the RSA conference -- Monday, February 27 to Friday, March 2 -- approximately 193,000 pieces of unique malware will be generated by cybercriminals around the world.
As shown in the chart below, new malware has increased approximately 300 percent from the level generated five years before, from an estimated six million new pieces of malware in 2007 to an estimated 17.8 million in 2011, according to data from industry research firm AV-Test.Org (http://www.av-test.org/en/statistics/malware/). Malware is software intended to damage or disable computer systems.
“At RSA, the security leaders will be out celebrating their growth, but not their success. Despite the industry’s vast resources and market capitalizations, the cybercriminals are working better, faster and cheaper each year to exploit the weaknesses in our current approach to security,” stated Paul Lipman, chief executive officer of Total Defense. “If the local police had the same abysmal record, they would be run out of town.”
“The data speaks for itself. The cybercrime era demands a new approach that makes it easier for businesses and consumers to protect themselves ,” concluded Lipman
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