2017 will undoubtedly be considered as ‘Year of ransomware’, the year when the global security landscape was forever changed by attacks like WannaCry and NotPetya. The havoc caused by these attacks reached far beyond the paltry ransom demand. Hospitals turned away patients. Production lines came to a halt. Nuclear radiation monitoring was disrupted. Cyber events like these were a wakeup call to the brave new world of cyberattacks and how they could reach further into the ‘real world’ than ever before.
But it’s not just ransomware and the threat landscape that have changed. Digital transformation initiatives like the move to the cloud and the increasing convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) have drastically changed networks and expanded responsibilities of security teams tasked with protecting them. These initiatives, for all their business benefits, have caused network complexity to skyrocket — an issue cyberattackers are all too eager to exploit. All the while, the labor force to safeguard against attacks remains stubbornly inadequate.
This year, let us take a look at the cybersecurity trends that are likely to emerge amid the intersection of the most…
