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According to Symantec's most recent Internet Security Threat Report, the security industry is very near the tipping point (and by that I don't mean the point where you start thinking of rewarding the wait-service for their exceptional service).
As spelled out by Symantec, the tipping point in security comes when the number of legitimate programs are outnumbered by malicious or illegitimate ones. And in Symantec's last security report, they identified 1,122,311 unique threats, of which 711,912 were known to be created in 2007, which represents a 468 percent increase from 2006.
Why this is significant is, in terms of proper white listing and black listing, with so many ill intentioned programs looking to do damage, it makes black listing all that badware virtually impossible, and leaves white listing as the only sane alternative. And from those numbers, it clearly looks like we've passed the security tipping point, and maybe not in the too distant future TIPS will mean too insure proper security.
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