01194nas a2200085   4500000000100000008004100001245005700042856008800099520092100187       2015                            d00aState of Cyber Security: Emerging Threats Landscape   uhttps://www.academia.edu/11947469/state_of_cyber_security_Emerging_trends_landscape3 aComputer Security has become a major challenge in the present years due to the continuous global technological development and the different possibilities for the use of computer. Cyber threats are growing at an alarming rate and at the same pace with the online use of Personal Computers and mobile devices. This work surveys the state of Cyber Security emerging threats landscape, through the overview of related works reported between 2011 and 2013 in the literature by stakeholders and experts in Information Technology (IT) industry. Different type of Cyber emerging threats such as malicious attack, network attack and network abuse have been identiied with speciic interest on virus, Phishing, Spam and insider abuse to mention but a few. It has been established that these Cybercriminals tools are exhibiting common level of sophistication and advancement as the advances in Computer and mobile technologies.