The most Important Challenges Facing Cyber Security
Cyber security researchers and business owners are now identifying attacks and threats that could affect the cyber security world in 2019.
With only two months left until the end of year, cyber security researchers and business owners are now looking to identify attacks and threats that could affect the cyber security world in the year 2020.
Increased Cybercrime
Throughout the year, as a result of the decisive failure of governments, international communities and the United Nations, cybercrime by hacker groups backed will continue to grow. Many organizations do not have the proper structure to counter these attacks. In such circumstances, cyber security teams should rely on data breach detection techniques.
Cloud Technology Insecurity
The insecurity of cloud technology started and will unfortunately continue in the future as well. As production and deployment of large volumes of data across different sectors of the organization, their security will face many challenges. Despite continued awareness of data breach attacks, a significant number of organizations still have failed to provide robust and secure security for all their data stored in the cloud.
- Single Factor Passwords
Single-factor passwords are the easiest way to log in and are a good tool for hackers to attack. Despite the low cost of multi-step authentication, many organizations still use simple passwords. Unfortunately, password theft and related crimes will happen on a daily basis.
- Malware
Ransomware, digital currency mining, banking malware and VPN filters are major malware challenges that continue to threaten businesses and consumers every year. We will see more sophisticated malware emerge in the New Year. Older antiviruses will no longer meet the security we expect. Solutions that target malware directly will increasingly be needed by organizations.
- IoT
The growth of security challenges in the field of IoT will be significant. Organizations’ use of IoT technology will increase regardless of its security risks. As the use of IoT increases, sectors that were previously secure will face new threats.
Increase in Cyber Security Attacks
Last year 80% of organizations experienced a cyber security incident! Last year, 5% of companies experienced a cyber-security incident, the most common being malware attacks, according to the report “Better Business Outputs and Security with Security Performance Management”.
These security incidents affect the security and privacy of customers more than anything else. In this report, 5% of customers have been severely or somewhat damaged by an accident. In fact, 5% of companies agree that in recent years, customer or partner demand for cyber security reporting has intensified.
More than a third of companies agree that they have lost a contract or job because of the lack of proper security practices (whether this is really what it was or just a misconception). Also, 5% of decision-makers agree that customer and partner perceptions of security are very important in their company decisions.
Other key findings of this study include:
- After an accident, security decision-makers are more likely to talk about damaging the company’s reputation and attracting more customers than their employees. This means that decision-makers understand the value of efficient and effective security.
- Organizations that have implemented formal security performance metrics are more likely to increase the annual security budget by 5% or more.
- 5% of organizations have lost a contract or job because of a lack of proper security practices (whether this is really what it was or just a misconception).
- We are now seeing increased scrutiny of investments (5% agree) and now formal benchmarks are key methods to justify investments (in 5% of companies); they have also warned decision-makers about worst-case scenarios to draw more attention and justify investments.
- 5% have identified formal security measures as an approach to help justify current or proposed security investments. Other approaches used include the internal development of a business plan (2%), the use of advanced calculations to assess the level of development and maturity (2%), and the use of capital return calculations (2%).
- Two percent of CEOs and 2 percent of top-level executives said that after a security incident, the organization’s ability to attract new customers has diminished.
- 3% of CEOs and 5% of management-level employees reported that their company’s reputation was damaged after a cyber security incident.
- 5% of organizations use cybersecurity rankings, making them the third most common benchmark. 7% of organizations that use cyber security rankings report these rankings to customers and partners more than any other criterion.
- 5% of companies that evaluated the number of blocked malware incidents reported this to the board of directors.
- 5% of companies have invested in developing new technologies to improve how they evaluate their security performance.
- In the past year, companies that have used formal security measures have been more likely to increase security levels by 5% or more.