A Tale of Three Bogeys: Zero-Day Vulnerabilities, Unpatched Client Applications, and Browser Exploits by McAfee, Inc.
The web and email are not IT’s friends. They create risk and increase the workload because they distribute and prolong the payoff of known and unknown threats in zero-day vulnerabilities, client-side vulnerabilities, and Web 2.0 exploits. Layering new and traditional techniques, including anti-malware, anti-spam, intrusion prevention, and application whitelisting, throughout the network and systems will minimize those risks.