With the advent of VoIP or a revised name for a P2P (peer to peer) connection using the internet for use with voice calls while simultaneously sharing and moving file across the vast area that is the internet, more and more information that is within your computer and the information that you send through the net is at risk.
So what can we do to boost the already anti-virus protected environment that is the net and the data that may become lost? Traditionally IT experts and analysts have recommended the use of perimeter protection for a network which has sentinels or programs that defines who can access where and when. Data mining software, scans all the files on the network and determines who gets to see and use which and prevents data loss by storing them securely in servers. Software like InfoScape from the EMC Corp is just one of the many software products along with Kazeon Systems Inc.
The key is to de-centralize and distribute the security solution along with the files themselves which follows the approach that the traditional network with walls has been thrown out the window.