Symantec CEO Enrique Salem spoke at the 2010 RSA Conference and called for the need to provide a new level of security as data in the cloud is made available to a host of mobile devices.   Salem said that enterprise data has a 60% annual growth rate which needs robust security to be protected from cybercriminals.  "IDC says there will be one billion cell phones accessing the Internet by the end of this year. Right now, there are 1.3 billion PCs connected to the Internet. We need to think about how we secure that device," he said as he spoke to an audience at this week’s RSA conference. Salem said that cybercriminals know the value of intellectual property and there is a shift away from broad based attacks to precision attacks on specific targets.

According to Symantec’s 2010 State of the Enterprise survey, 75% of those surveyed say they have been attacked in the last 6 months with a data loss of some kind, such as personal, financial, credit card and intellectual property.   The survey contacted 2100 IT executives and CIOs to get their feedback for the extensive report.  Salem stresses the importance of moving from signature-based malware detection to a system of reputation-based security which can be built from comprehensive knowledge for users on a global basis.

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