Six Big Features Of Cyber Security In 2021
Uploaded on 2021-01-04 in NEWS-Cybersecurity News, FREE TO VIEW
2020 has been a historic year with the Coronavirus pandemic, a significant increase in cyber attacks and the impact of increasingly sophisticated hackers. Businesses of all sizes have had to completely change what they do and how they operate in order to manage these dramatic changes by switching to new ways of using digital technology. Rather than slow things down, the events of 2020 have accelerated a shift to a digital world. Meanwhile, existing threats have continued to evolve and innovation is producing better tools to fight cyber crime.
Here are six of the cyber security issues to focus on in 2021.
1. Business Adaptation To Remote Working
Organisations have had to adapt to the pandemic and transform their workforce into a remote working secured environment as they are very vulnerable to personalised cyber hacking attacks. Many organisations are still not fully prepared to manage a remote workforce securely and are still setting up secure communication channels, providing cyber criminals a multitude of new attack methods. While many companies will be planning to invest in securing the remote workforce, there’s a risk that they are underestimating the scale and challenge of the task ahead.
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2. New Technologies Will Bring Increased Risk
Global events that lead to new technologies will help us meet our new circumstances. As we adapt to events like the pandemic, attackers adapt too. Online crimes reported to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Far more people are using the Internet and more people working remotely, a trend that will continue even when stay at home, means more people are vulnerable to security breaches. This isn’t to say that businesses should not implement new technologies to support their employees who are now remote. But it is to say that identifying security gaps and closing them are more important than ever.
The risks and vulnerabilities are high and cyber security must meet that challenge.
3.Deepfakes
Deepfakes are using and changing the media so that someone’s image, news or video is replaced and changed with another person. Deepfakes is a way to lie to the public, influence opinion, threaten, and damage someone’s reputation and they will also be used in cyber-attacks to social engineer the attack
4.Machine Learning (ML) & Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Innovation in computing performance will be used by cyber criminals who want full scale future attacks with ML and AI capabilities. Using more sophisticated systems and tools like ML and AI cyber criminals would be able to process massive amounts of data and learn more about how to successfully attack.
5. The Internet of Things (IoT)
Over the past few years, the traditional network perimeter has been replaced with multiple edge environments, WAN, multi-cloud, data center, remote worker, IoT, and more, each with its unique risks. One of the most significant advantages to cyber criminals in all of this is that while all of these edges are interconnected many organisations have sacrificed centralised visibility and unified control in favor of performance and digital transformation.
6. Cloud Will Be Everywhere
The days of all cloud capabilities being centralised in data centers are beginning to disappear. You can find cloud-based applications helping to boost the performance of ships out at sea, aircraft traversing the sky, and in our cars and homes.
Access to the compute and storage of the cloud is spreading out of dense data centers and reaching into rural communities, remote wilderness, and even near- earth orbit. The cloud is going everywhere and ss the cloud expands out of centralised locations and into the environments that we live and work in every day, what we will increasingly see is the same software that runs in the cloud will run close to you. This will lead to improvements in all aspects of our lives, from healthcare to transportation, entertainment, manufacturing, and more. In 2021, this push to the edge will accelerate.
Conclusion
Both nation-state actors and cyber crime organisations will intensify their activity in cyberspace in 2021. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will offer them new opportunities to target businesses, government organisations, and citizens worldwide. We are in the middle of a perfect storm. For this reason, a multi-layered approach to cyber security and the involvement of private and government stakeholders is necessary to prevent cyber-attacks from having even more dramatic consequences next year. Organisations cannot be expected to defend against cyber adversaries on their own. They will need to know who to inform in the case of an attack so that law enforcement can do its work.
Cyber security vendors, threat research organisations, and other industry groups need to partner with each other for information sharing, but also with law enforcement to help dismantle adversarial infrastructures to prevent future attacks.
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