Cyber warfare for government, military and business is well underway in the world, with US organizations under attack for both criminal gain and activist goals. The reality for most organizations is that they do not have the resources to defend their enterprises from infrastructure network to mobile devices and the all the applications in between. As a result, the large players -- IBM, HP and Cisco -- are following the EMC/RSA model and announcing new enterprise services to monitor their customers IT infrastructure through their threat or operations centers. Monitoring identifies common threats from the outside and addresses internal customer vulnerabilities, mitigating both.

These new services are cloud based, enabling vendors to play the role of “Big Sister” through strong situational awareness of their customers’ systems and enabling diagnostic analysis without the cost of on premise visits.