Security in the coming year is going to be more complex than ever to manage. The attack vectors are widening and the skill sets of the hacker community are getting sharper with each passing day.

Conventional security wisdom holds that the distributors of malware leverage massive amounts of botnet infrastructure to deliver their payloads. While historically that has been true, these days the sheer size of those botnets is making it easier to discover those botnets, predict what attacks are building on those botnets, and ultimately apprehend the cybercriminals who built them.