Bangalore: When you look back at 2013, there is a sense of frustration that security professionals lost ground to the bad guys in many cases. But while there were plenty of battles lost in previous year on the technical side, there is good reason to hope that the war can still be won in the long term – with promising developments on the human side this new year, according to W. Hord Tipton, CISSP, Executive Director, (ISC)², a non-profit organization which specializes in information security education and certifications.  

There were many frustrations for the defense in 2013. Adobe reported the compromise of more than 38 million users’ personal data, and there were serious questions raised about the security of its source code. Chinese hackers cracked the systems at the New York Times and other major media, and an investigation later showed a calculated effort to crack U.S. government and commercial systems as well. And the face of privacy and cyber espionage changed with revelations of secret U.S. government documents that disclosed the details of NSA activities and intelligence-gathering practices.

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