Every year brings with it different security threats and to keep their environments secure, companies need to be aware of the latest trends and how they can potentially be affected. At the moment security threats have reached a mature stage and are no longer limited to one form of attack and come in the form of blended threats across multiple attack vectors for the purpose of roping computers into bot networks and stealing valuable confidential information.

TechTarget has compiled the articles below from leading firms as a looking glass through which companies can see this year's leading threats.