I agree that “Up-to-date anti-virus software can help prevent malware infection” but it may not help much.

I think it’s an alarming increase in the type of sophisticated malware used in recent attacks. McAfee Labs researchers have analyzed the threats 2013 and seen a steady growth in malware. Sophisticated malware can successfully hide from its victims.

Even if the malware is detected it could be hard to notice in the noise from state of the art malware detection systems. So we need to secure the data instead.

There are so many ways to attack systems across the entire data flow and the attackers are increasingly focusing on stealing our personal data.

I think that we urgently need to secure also our personal data itself with modern data security approaches. Studies have shown that users of data tokenization experience up to 50 % fewer security-related incidents and breaches.

Ulf Mattsson, CTO Protegrity