The crystal ball gazing has started early on this year. Usually y'all lead hold to hold back until subsequently Christmas for the tech prediction pieces to laid about rolling out, but the laid about ’security trends for 2011′ letter has already dropped into my inbox. So what does the somewhat premature Imperva Application Defense Center mean value nosotros are going to last most worried past times on the information technology safety forepart side past times side year? I predict the listing volition include to a greater extent than Stuxnet-alike attacks, something nigh how the cloud is either a goodness or bad affair together with a broadside nigh mobile device security. Let’s meet if my crystal ball has been successful inward predicting the predictions.
Imperva ADC says the plough over 10 information technology safety trends for 2011 volition be, with my comments inward parenthesis:
- Nation-sponsored hacking: (yay, bang ane – Stuxnet worm clones prediction correct at the top) these volition construct on concepts together with techniques from the commercial hacker manufacture to create to a greater extent than powerful Advanced Persistent Threats (I predict someone volition larn a Buzzword Bingo total trouble solid with that one)
- Insider threat awareness to rise: In this upcoming year, nosotros await to meet growing awareness of safety incidents due to insiders. Attention volition grow equally a lawsuit of an increased menses of incident reports where information theft together with safety breaches are tied to employees together with other insiders. (I’m wondering but how to a greater extent than aware of the insider threat the average corporation tin be, it’s certainly already high on the information safety agenda of most companies that I speak to)
- Man inward the Browser Attacks: growth inward the purpose played past times “Man-in-the-Browser” attacks inward cyber-criminal activity. As a consequence, to a greater extent than online service providers are going to include this inward their listing of priorities for 2011, shifting the responsibleness for mitigating the run a jeopardy from the consumers to the service providers. (I predict that the banks volition hold that it is either the customers error or zip bad truly happened together with they must lead hold made the transfer of funds themselves)
- Social Network Security: this volition improve, with prominent social networks, together with tools, placing to a greater extent than efforts into safety over privacy. (Or, seat roughly other way, social networks volition seat a lot of endeavour into telling the media that they are all nigh user privacy piece at the same fourth dimension mining equally much soul information equally possible)
- File Security Takes Center Stage: greater release of information breaches where compromised information is inward the shape of files rather than database records. (You hateful y'all are non already properly securing your file servers? I predict y'all volition larn all y'all deserve past times means of breaches inward 2011 together with beyond then)
- Mobile Devices Compromise Data Security: (strike two!) proliferation of sophisticated mobile devices is going to lead hold a substantial effect on application together with information safety (but no to a greater extent than than inward 2010 when sophisticated mobile devices were already pretty prolific, certainly inward 2011 enterprises volition last to a greater extent than prepared than always for the mobile safety threat?)
- Data Security Goes to the Cloud: (strike three!) an increment inward application safety offerings inward the cloud throughout 2011, nosotros volition meet roughly early on information safety inward the cloud offerings (there are already enough of early on safety inward the cloud offerings, together with lead hold been all twelvemonth – does something which has already happened truly count equally a prediction?)
- Cyber Security Becomes a Business Process: CISOs together with safety professionals volition require to larn concern procedure experts to meliorate protect information equally it flows through corporation systems (see above, this is non a prediction but rather a reflection on what already is – Intel buying McAfee was evidence of this, together with information technology safety has been joined at the hip to concern operations for the longest fourth dimension anyway)
- Hackers Feel the Heat: the hacking manufacture volition consolidate equally amateurs nigh downwards together with consolidation with larger, organized groups takes house (erm, again, non a prediction but a electrical flow reality methinks)
- Convergence of information safety together with privacy regulation: equally to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than governments implement information safety together with privacy laws, a convergence volition accept house worldwide (convergence is defined, inward my book, equally a mutual understanding or persuasion together with to last totally honest I cannot meet information safety together with privacy rule moving towards whatsoever globally similar persuasion side past times side twelvemonth nor, I lead hold to say, inward the side past times side decade. This is, I think, less of a trending prediction together with to a greater extent than of a safety 24-hour interval dream!)
Amichai Shulman, the Imperva CTO, anticipates that “the threat landscape volition evolve inward many directions, making information safety to a greater extent than challenging than ever” together with that’s ane safety prediction, which piece non existence hard to make, I cannot debate with.
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