The world of digital information security does not lack for challenges. Major events in 2016 have created uncertainty about the future and at the same time new opportunities for the security industry to think and innovate new defense technologies and solutions. The security industrys biggest challenges are to improve the life cycle of threat defense effectiveness by moving the curve ahead of advisories. The shift towards cloud based storage and services is becoming a very lucrative target for attacks as the perimeter is protected by traditional security measures. An attack to disrupt a major cloud provider would be used as a disruptive event to disrupt their customers’ business.”]