In October 2008, the Georgia Tech Information Security Center hosted its annual summit on emerging security threats for the coming year. After its conclusion, the conference issued a summary report entitled Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009, which catalogs a variety of threats that the conference participants felt would be important in the coming year.
According to the report, the five topic areas that are most likely to drive threats and countermeasures are malware, botnets, cyber warfare, threats to VoIP and mobile devices, and cybercrime.
