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In the present age of heightened collaboration, the risk of cybercrime is very high. Organizations
need to defend against techniques such as spear phishing, malware and APTs, among others.

Application white listing, privileged password management and network behavior anomaly
detection are just three modes of defense.

And what happens in a future of radical collaboration tools?

Future collaboration tools will be even more powerful. For example, the combination of
holography and brain decoding technology may create a society in which people have meetings
between their virtual selves in the office.

What if a cybercriminal impersonates a CEO’s virtual self and compromises the business by
giving wrong instructions during a meeting? In a scenario like this, even if a criminal were
somehow able to project the CEO’s hologram inside the office, the ICT team could detect the
deviation if there were inconsistencies with the CEO’s known logic.

There is no doubt that the future holds endless possibilities for collaboration, which we know to
be integral for business success. We just need to make sure our security technology is well
equipped to handle it.

However sophisticated the attacks in an age of increased collaboration, a proactive ICT team
will always prevail.

About the Author

Ram Vaidyanathan is an IT evangelist at ManageEngine, the real-time IT
management company. Ram closely follows emerging industry trends and is
a frequent blogger on technology topics.

His main interest is in the impact of the Internet of Things on IT
management. He has an MBA from the Schulich School of Business.

For more information on ManageEngine, the real-time IT management
company, please visit www.manageengine.com; follow the company blog at
http://blogs.manageengine.com, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and
on Twitter @ManageEngine.

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