Where were you on New Year’s Eve in 1999?
Many in the tech industry were holding their breath as they watched the time-dependent results of their extensive “Year 2000 projects” — also called “Y2K” for short. The world went happily forward after their COBOL remediations were generally successful, and started offering new web portals, innovative services and exciting new technologies in the new century.
But little did we know that just around the corner, in March 2000, the dot-com bubble would burst. Perhaps even more significant, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, would forever change the way that security was seen around the world.
LOOKING BACK TO 2024 PREDICTIONS
In December 2023, we released “The Top 24 Security Predictions for 2024 (Part 1),” where we highlighted the top industry cybersecurity trends and forecasts expected for 2024. The common themes were:
- AI will revolutionize everything and everyone — for better and for worse. Here are some of those specific predictions around AI and GenAI:
- More effective cyber attacks than ever before against everyone, with bad actors leveraging GenAI…