We can safely say the first rule of 2021 will be never talk about 2020. It has been a year of struggles, and uncertainty in ways which few would have ever predicted. Most businesses have had to adapt to a completely different working environment with very different security needs.
While few will want to look back on 2020, it will have a major influence on the next year and beyond. I predict the cybersecurity industry will be seeing the impact of this year for a long time to come.
Securing the remote landscape
The sudden switch to working remotely has been, by far, one of the biggest cybersecurity risks in 2020 and we can expect this to continue into 2021. Many companies had to quickly transition from supporting a handful of occasional remote workers to managing almost their entire workforce remotely, and this really put a lot of emphasis on those companies that have lagged behind in areas like cloud migration.
Moving any remaining on-prem legacy systems to the cloud will be a major priority over the next year. This will also mean an accompanying investment into security solutions and processes that will reduce cloud infrastructure risk.
Strong access controls will be one…
