The first trend he sees occurring is the rapid growth of the consumerisaiton of IT that has left the security function in the enterprise struggling to cope with managing and protecting data that is stored on company and personal equipment.

"That's going to lead on to potential compliance failures and disclosure of business information," Durbin said.

"Even though security organisations are aware of it, I think we are going to see some flare ups over the next 12 months where there are some embarrassments that are caused out there."