SecurityWeek: Redefining Malware: When Old Terms Pose New Threats

Enterprises Need to Grasp That the Very Nature of Malware has Completely Changed...

By Aviv Raff
January 29, 2014

I've often noticed that despite all of the major changes that the business world has experienced over the past few years -- many of which could be classified as transformational innovations and total reinventions -- we're often stuck using the same old terms to describe completely new things.

And while this divergence is typically, and thankfully, something for linguists and lexicographers to grapple with instead of CTOs like me, there are situations where failing to grasp an old term's new meaning can pose a significant danger to the stability, success and in some cases, survival of an enterprise. And in my view, there is no clearer example of this than the term "malware".

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