Among the biggest cyberthreats enterprises face comes from hacks on consumer mobile devices, says Caleb Barlow, a director of product management at IBM Security.

Too many businesses are worried about how security might adversely affect the user experience, even among their own workforce, says Bert Rankin, chief marketing officer of ThreatMetrix.

The gateway security solutions provider iBoss Network Security is enhancing its offerings by incorporating analysis of behavioral movement of traffic in and out of the network.

While most organizations are focusing on compliance, they are ignoring basic human-factor security risks that technology cannot fix, says Hord Tipton, executive director of the International Systems Security Certification Consortium, better known as (ISC)².

While January's seemingly isolated distributed-denial-of-service attacks against JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America may have been a blip, DDoS expert Barrett Lyon says stronger attacks are on the way.

While massive DDoS attacks were dominant in 2013, this year, smaller application-layer attacks going after such things as log-in pages and password files are far more common, says Rich Bolstridge, chief strategist, financial services, at Akamai Technologies.

The increasing use of cloud-based resources requires a new approach to protection against cyberthreats, says Ashley Stephenson, CEO at Corero Network Security.

Simple credentials, such as passwords, are a hacker's best friend, says Phillip Dunkelberger of Nok Nok Labs, a founding member of the FIDO Alliance. That's why the alliance is working to reduce reliance on passwords by enabling advanced authentication.

Cisco has launched a new open source initiative focused on application identification, says Scott Harrell, vice president of the company's security business group.

Log analysis is often used for managed security, but are organizations going far enough with the information they have at their fingertips? Don Gray, chief security strategist for Solutionary, says there is much more organizations could be doing to predict breaches.