THE CONSULTING Services team at the British Standards Institution (BSI) has outlined five key trends across the cyber security and data governance landscape for the year ahead, demonstrating how vital information resilience will continue to be for many organisations across the globe this year.
2020 saw the impact of commodity attacks that evolved to combine traditional attack skills such as phishing, remote desktop protocol, brute force and network vulnerability exploitation with ransomware to maximise return on investment for attackers. Ransomware will continue to rise in number and sophistication in 2021 across all sectors and organisation sizes.
Stephen O’Boyle, global practice director for cyber, risk and advisory at the BSI, commented: “The cyber world is a haven for cyber criminals. We’ve seen how unscrupulous ransomware attackers can be as attacks on healthcare during the global pandemic persisted and ramped up. The trends of 2020 clearly highlighted new techniques to shorten time to pay. Attackers began to leverage brand and reputational impact by exfiltrating key data sets before encrypting and posting samples online and threatening full disclosure of…
