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.

In many enterprises, the use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications is spinning out of control, yet most companies don't know what to do about it, given the fact that the consumerization of IT appears to be an unstoppable trend.

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.