John Thompson, the Chairman and CEO of Symantec, gave an interesting talk at an event in Tokyo last week. Thompson, and some of his deputies, discussed the changing security threat posed with changing times.

Bill Robbins, head of Symantec’s Asia Pacific business, “explained in an interview that this changing threat would mean businesses will have to spend more time and energy on making sure that data is not just secure but also recording which users are accessing and manipulating information stored in corporate databases.” Martyn Williams, the Tokyo correspondent for IDG News Service, has written a nice, short article on the subject.

As we’ve seen many, many times as of late, attacks on your secure information inside of your data centers is not always the most attractive target. That user who leaves his notebook in the car with all of your customers’ sensitive information is bound to be a more likely candidate for attack. And again, why do you still allow that user to keep that data locally anyway?!?!

Robbins goes on to say, “from a hacker perspective if they get your credit card number from the biggest company in the world or the 48,000th biggest company in the world it’s still the same value to them.”