While some of my colleagues here at TST look at highly technical and detailed security topics, I am more likely to focus how to protect your data from a zombie attack, an outbreak of swine flu or an IED. The latest addition to my personal "Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is the cloud provider or software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor that fails and suddenly goes dark.

According to a new report by Cisco Systems, 70 percent of young professionals frequently ignore IT policies, with one in four the victim of identity theft before the age of 30.