Top 5 Cyber Security Trends Of 2021

2019 has been about some security breaches and shortage of IT staff in the industry which also has involved both the public and the technological industry wrapped in headlines. The previous year has also been about organizations struggling to get themselves cyber secured here are some cybersecurity trends that you’d be witnessing this 2021. These include:-

1.Integration and automation in cybersecurity:

Professionals working in cybersecurity sectors like the developers and engineers are under tremendous pressure to perform a lot of tasks within limited time and resources this is where introduction and utilization of automation are playing a huge role. By incorporating security into agile processes like DevOps, CI/ CD has helped organizations to effectively manage risks while they are busy sustaining the required pace and quality of developments. Sprawling web-based applications combining them all with multiple web services are increasingly hard to secure and automated solutions are becoming a necessity for diminishing the workload by understanding the team and their efficiency.

2.Ever-growing awareness for the importance of cybersecurity:

With ongoing digital transformation in various companies has resulted in growth in awareness about the cybersecurity challenges amongst both major and small enterprises. Companies have started to realize that an effective cybersecurity strategy and a good cyber incident response plan is no longer a luxury but a necessity to sustain in the market. Security has gained popularity with the software development lifecycle, with SecDevOps/DevSecOps processes to integrate security at all stages of development.

Cyber risks can also be found while accessing the organizations’ data using Mobile Phone as employee’s mobile usage has increased which also has contributed to the data storage of the organization in their mobile phones. When the direct business impact of mobile malware is low this may lead to a large number of data breaches from the mobile devices being misused. This can only be eliminated by organizations with real-time vulnerability management.

3.Data breaches leading the cyberthreat list:

This has continued to be the most concerning factor in cybersecurity. Insurance of data privacy along with the security of the personal data helps organizations to position themselves as the first name for when the clients’ need was concerned. As a part of things like the rise in the stringent privacy litigations where the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is playing a huge role on a global front. In fact, every other organization is well aware of the possible or existing defaulting areas as far as the data breaches are concerned. This is why ensuring web application security has become a top priority for all organizations.

This can get a bit out of order when there’s a massive skill gap towards cybersecurity. Statistics confirm where ISC2 recently announced that around 2.8 million more professionals are needed in the cybersecurity industry. Across the globe, two out of three organizations have reported that there’s a shortage of IT security staff, automated security tools like the online vulnerability management solutions. Modern products have the potential to even allow small-sized teams to efficiently secure multiple websites and web applications in providing a technological solution to pressing recruitment problems.

4.Rise in the number of state-sponsored cyberattackers:

The modern hacker further consists of advanced persistent threats backed by nation-state actors who are disrupting the global security landscape. In other words, cybercriminals are unofficially getting sponsored by the state or the national governments. This has helped such criminals to be a part of high-profile data breaches and execution of DDoS attacks, stealing both industrial & political secrets, misleading and influencing the global events by silencing unfavourable voices. Such activities are meant to escalate when and if there is a political tension on a rise while there is security maintained in the face of advanced globally distributed attackers with access to zero-day exploits will require big business and government organizations to deploy equally advanced solutions to detect and eliminate known and emerging vulnerabilities.

In the race of making a delivering new products risks in IoT devices is also quite This has been possible because of things like vulnerable web interfaces, insecure wireless communication, hard-coded credentials, unencrypted personal data, unverified firmware updates, and more. Compromised IoT devices like the NAS servers and routers can help in providing access to communications and data that may serve as an entry point for further attacks. In fact, AI used in both ends of the barricades have also brought cyber threat along the way. AI has brought machine learning technologies into more range of products in various market segments that also includes cybersecurity.

Deep learning algorithms are being used for face detection, natural language processing, and threat detection but AI is further being utilized by cybercriminals to use it as a weapon to develop sophisticated malware and attack methods, requiring organizations to deploy advanced heuristic solutions rather than relying on known vulnerability and attack signatures. Phishing is still an everlasting threat where it has been an effective method for hackers in stealing identities and credentials distributing malware, eliciting fraudulent payments, cryptojacking (cryptocurrency mining) and more, so, the threat is not going away any time soon. Same is the case with ransomware attacks providing hackers with a strong source of income from international cybercrime.

5.Security issues in the cloud computing arena:

In the current market the business process, infrastructure has pushed the data to go out on the cloud computing service providers like AWS or Microsoft Azure. Now protection of the data that is available on the cloud or have been pushed by organizations on the cloud. Information protection and critical infrastructure need you to have a completely new approach for enterprise security. Inevitably the cloud-based threats will just continue to grow where organizations will struggle to maintain control over their critical data while ensuring the real-time threat intelligence.

However, when the data is secured improperly or the bucket of the configured data increases the risk of major data breaches all kinds of organizations small or large and unauthorized cloud services can all too easily be added by end-users. Organizations have realized that manual security management is no longer a feasible element for large web application infrastructure that is forcing them to rethink their approach towards web application security.