Cyber-attacks are a constant threat to businesses of all sizes across all industries. At NetWatcher we’re tracking these threats and have come up with a list of the top 10 cybersecurity trends that will shape the market in the months ahead.
- Small and mid-sized enterprises will be pressured by customers to increase the security of their networks (i.e. continuous security monitoring).
- The U.S. Federal Government will require government contractors (and sub-contractors) to implement continuous security monitoring to work on government contracts.
- The “Unintentional Insider Threat” will become a bigger issue and threat to companies.
- “Bad Actors” will focus on C-level and board members’ home networks to obtain access to the corporate network.
- Wealthy home office attacks will become more common.
- The use of vulnerable software (such as Java and Flash) and risky software (such as BitTorrent and TOR) will reduce dramatically on corporate networks due to security issues.
- Encrypted internet traffic will increase.
- Endpoint technology will be broadly deployed in small and mid-sized enterprises, living side-by-side with anti-virus software.
- Cybersecurity education will become more widespread across all levels of a company, including at the most senior management levels.
- Increasingly complex attacks and cyber infiltration including distributed denial of service (DDoS) and financial exploitation will be prevalent.
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