Panda Security Insight

Reading Byron Acohido´s blog post  as well as the post on PandaLabs about the incredible rise of financially motivated malware, I thought about the impact this epidemic would have on the financial industry and how it could not happen at a worse time.  Banks of all sizes are dealing with a complex regulatory compliance environment, high profile data breaches and an uncertain economy that has caused many to place IT budgets on the back burner, to say nothing of security budgets.  The financial sector is facing enormous pressure at a time when even the most established firms are now looking for ways to survive.

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For some time now, I have been thinking about creating my own blog. Like many of you, I spend much of my time online: shopping, managing my affairs, reading the opinions of others, browsing… I must admit, I use the Internet for practically everything. Moreover, it is at the heart of the company I manage. So as you can see, the Internet is really a big part of my life.

So I’ve now decided to take the plunge and have my own blog, Panda Insight, separate from other Panda blogs (Panda Research and PandaLabs). I believe that blogs are a step towards ending the traditional type of unilateral communication -from companies to the market- which we have seen for many years. Similarly, they are coherent with the changes that we are implementing in Panda about how we communicate to the market: we want to switch from “one-to-one”/ “one-to-many” to “many-to-many” as it represents a more direct, credible and scalable form of communication. I wholeheartedly believe that blogs represent a tremendously enriching type of communication, both for authors and readers. With this blog, I hope to make my own small contribution.

I want to thank those that have encouraged me to pursue this initiative and want to make special mention, aside from the Panda Communication team, to Wences and Enrique Dans. Enrique gave me some good advice recently over lunch: “If you try to write about what you know, you have no future as a blogger. You have to write with your feet, write about what you see, about what you stumble upon.” Not having experience yet, it is hard to tell, but it makes sense to me. I will follow Enrique’s advice and write with my “feet” about what I see, what interests me (and I’m sure you will share some of these interests) and I will do it as frequently as I can, but at least once a week.

Let’s see where this blog takes us from here on…

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