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Intel Security (formerly McAfee) has released its 2016 Threat Predictions. Your car will be hacked, your wearable will spy on you, your computer will be held to ransom, and your router will send out spam in your name – amongst many other things.

Ever wondered why some succeed and some fail? Ever wondered why some take the easy path and some crawl over broken glass to succeed? The closing keynote by acclaimed non-geek and author Malcolm Gladwell got the audience thinking.

Enterprises are constantly under attack – sometimes several thousand times a day. The really bad guys are very sophisticated, several steps ahead of the good guys, and the cyber-crime industry rakes in billions of dollars.

When a car, a plane, or traffic lights can be classified as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and hacked you can imagine the damage that could be done by attacking devices such as elevator controls and other mission critical devices all connected to the IoT.

Intel Security is taking a larger responsibliity for protecting consumers and business customers – someone has to do it.