Security teams are facing “the perfect storm” these days, with four seemingly major contributing factors at play: AI and generative AI; geopolitical dynamics; changing regulatory compliance requirements; and, notably, continuing growth in ransomware. They all lead to a very complex threat scenario that requires significant effort from cybersecurity professionals to protect their enterprises. At the heart of these next-gen cyber defenses lies the core concept of identity — and unfortunately, what identity actually entails is significantly shifting.
That’s according to Alberto Yépez, managing director at Forgepoint Capital, who laid out the perfect-storm warning at one of today’s Dark Reading Virtual Event keynote sessions focusing on “Game-Changing Cybersecurity Technologies.”
Yépez noted that, for instance, security teams can’t combat ransomware through one solution alone. Ultimately, the goal a threat actor has in using ransomware is to access sensitive, valuable data located in someone’s network, and they do that by attacking a core networking principle that affects many different systems. “They want to try to compromise your identity,” says Yépez, because that’s the entry…
