so whats the new BIG thing???

I have been looking in on a few blogs recently, most notably those of Amrit Williams http://techbuddha.wordpress.com/ , nCircle http://blog.ncircle.com/ and Still Secure http://www.stillsecureafteralltheseyears.com/ashimmy/

These guys have been blogging about security for a long time and talking about it for longer than that, but I wonder if any of them have a clue about whats going to be the next big thing? When I say the next BIG thing, I mean the next real move in security. Alan @ StillSecure thinks NAC but then, as far as I can tell, thats what he does. Amrit, he thinks its going to be data protection, which is interesting because isnt that what EVERYONE does? I mean thats infosecurity right? Its like saying that the next big thing is boxing is going to be knocking people out? Its the point of the game.

So I made a comment on Amrits blog about the next big thing being data protection at the endpoint. The endpoint being the laptop. I have a laptop and I bet that everyone reading this blog has one too. What data do you have on it? Is it sensitive data? Is it secure?

The answer for many is that it probably IS secured by a password or encryption program but what is stopping you from giving that data to someone else?

The next BIG thing is doing what we have always done; data protection. But its about doing it everywhere.... and thats going to be a challenge.