The fact is undeniable: technology stops for no one. It is impossible to squelch the global demand for bigger, faster, and more reliable systems to support world commerce and the ever-increasing frenetic nature of the marketplace at large. However, while businesses clamor for more efficient and effective innovations, each improvement presents a new challenge in protecting the intellectual property and operational data of the enterprise. In the midst of this lifecycle of perpetual development, business and security leaders alike find themselves overrun as new threats and purported new countermeasures come over the horizon at a blinding speed.

A threat ignored can bring a serious blow to business productivity, but so can an across-the-board security upgrade implementation. An orchestrated cyber-attack against the corporate database may bring on costly mitigation efforts, but engaging software and hardware vendors to customize a solution to your business model may be just as expensive. In many cases, companies need more than cold hard cash to protect their shareholder's interests.

For every exploit found and patched, there are myriads of holes that remain undiscovered. On a daily basis, the smartest software developers in the world pit themselves against the smartest criminal minds in the world. For every victory that the manufacturers of protective security systems chalk up, there are an equal or greater number of tick marks in the "Win" column of the hacker elites.