Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee Labs threat research vice president, discusses the company's annual threat predictions, saying: "We are seeing an escalating threat landscape in 2011."

"The environment that started by supporting whistleblowers ... is essentially morphing into 'Gee, we as an organization need to be completely transparent, whether we want to or not,'" says Cal Slemp, managing director of Protiviti.

Thwarting the insider threat entails more than knowing an individual with access to a computer, but to recognize the synergy between the individual, organization, technology and environment, I3P Research Director Shari Lawrence Pfleeger says.

2011 will be the year of more -- more sophisticated malware, more WikiLeaks-style breaches and more regulatory compliance headaches.

NIST's Ron Ross Tackles the Risk Management Framework

If Marcus Ranum were your CISO, this would be his 2011 resolution: To launch a "War Games" style exercise.

No one knows risk better than the internal auditor, and so no individual has a better opportunity to add risk management value to organizations, says Richard Chambers, president of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Will the U.S. be a leader or a follower in cyberspace in the year 2020?