CISCO's 2007 Annual Security Report

CISCO has released its 2007 Annual Security Report which provides an overview of the combined security intelligence of the entire CISCO organisation. The report encompasses threat information and trends collected between January and September 2007, and provides a snapshot of the state of security for that period. The report provides recommendations from CISCO security experts and predictions of how identified trends will continue to unfold in 2008.

Security trends and recommendations are organized into seven major risk categories:

- Vulnerability
- Physical
- Legal
- Trust
- Identity
- Human
- Geopolitical

The report also provides a high-level perspective on the issues currently shaping the security space, as well as insights into how security professionals and businesses can expect the industry to change over the next several years. The report can be downloaded here.