1. Increasing crime, espionage and sabotage by state perpetrators.With the continued failure of significant reactions and repercussions at the national, international or UN levels, state-sponsored espionage, cybercrime and sabotage will continue to spread. Obviously, most organizations are simply not structured to defend themselves against such attacks, which will succeed in penetrating their protection systems. Cybersecurity teams will need to rely on intrusion detection techniques.
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2. The GDPR Regulation - the pain to come.May 25, 2018 came and went, many organizations breathing a sigh of relief due to the passage of the relatively painless moment. They have defined security processes and I can say that I am on the right track to have the situation under control - so everything is OK? We are still waiting for the first major GDPR fine. When he arrives, organizations will suddenly begin to look seriously at what they really need to do. Facebook, BA, Cathay Pacific etc. have recently suffered cyber security breaches and will have different levels of corporate costs as a consequence, depending on which part of the May 25 deadline they stay. So the GDPR regulation will have a strong impact in 2019 as well
3. Cloud insecurity - this is your job at stake.The uncertainty of the cloud increased in 2018 and, unfortunately, will continue to grow even more in 2019. Growing amounts of data are processed from disparate parts of organizations, more and more of which become insecure.
Despite the continued publicity of repeated security breaches, most organizations do not have good data management applied to the entire dataset stored in the Cloud. To give you an idea of the magnitude, Skyhigh Networks research has shown that 7% of S3 buckets are accessible to the public and 35% are unencrypted.
4. One-factor passwords - long gone.As if we need to repeat, single-factor passwords are one of the simplest possible keys to accessing the "kingdom" (helped by the failure to manage network privileges, once violated). Simple passwords are the key tool for attack vectors, from novice hackers to state players. And yet, they remain the standard of protection for most organizations, despite the low cost and ease of implementation of multi-factor authentication solutions.