8 Boldest Security Predictions For 2017
Scary, funny and maybe even a little outlandish, these industry predictions come from prognosticators who didn't mince words.
December 27, 2016
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The end of the year may mean ugly sweaters and epic office holiday parties for some. But for us here at Dark Reading, nothing signals winter solstice more certainly than an email inbox stuffed full of IT security predictions for the coming year. We're talking a denial-of-service-level flood of communiques - a near endless cavalcade of thought leaders and laggards chiming in with their thoughts on how attacks, defenses and the business of cybersecurity will shake out after the New Year.
Among the hundreds of predictions, the majority are either inane or obvious enough to get a "Well, duh" response from anyone who has been in infosec for any length of time. But every year we get a few that raise our eyebrows, elicit a chuckle or at least get us thinking speculatively about possibilities for the months to come. This year was no different, so we'll spare you all those predictions about phishing being the next big attack vector and skip straight to the good stuff.
Speaking of IoT security, some of the most interesting expectations for attacks in this field involved unmanned aerial vehicles. Namely, that as drones become more widely used by businesses for deliveries, filming, surveillance, and more, attackers are going to see them as a prime hijacking candidate.
"Drones have their own unique identity but they could be considered mobile as well as IoT devices as they start connecting with other devices," says Mandeep Khera, CMO of Arxan. "As drones start getting more used for deliveries of goods, expect dronejacking and other attacks. Hackers can also cause drones to malfunction with malware, resulting in injuries."
Machine learning and behavioral analytics have been the holy grail of detection and prevention technologies over the past five years. According to some, the capabilities in this arena have greatly advanced lately. Chase Cunningham with A10 Networks believes the technology suitors will make honest women out of their prospective customers in 2017 with significant capability gains --including new features that can not only detect attacks but predict them.
"Math, machine learning and artificial intelligence will be baked more into security solutions. Security solutions will learn from the past, and essentially predict attack vectors and behavior based on that historical data," says Cunningham, who is director of cyber operations for A10. "This means security solutions will be able to more accurately and intelligently identify and predict attacks by using event data and marrying it to real-world attacks."
The end of the year may mean ugly sweaters and epic office holiday parties for some. But for us here at Dark Reading, nothing signals winter solstice more certainly than an email inbox stuffed full of IT security predictions for the coming year. We're talking a denial-of-service-level flood of communiques - a near endless cavalcade of thought leaders and laggards chiming in with their thoughts on how attacks, defenses and the business of cybersecurity will shake out after the New Year.
Among the hundreds of predictions, the majority are either inane or obvious enough to get a "Well, duh" response from anyone who has been in infosec for any length of time. But every year we get a few that raise our eyebrows, elicit a chuckle or at least get us thinking speculatively about possibilities for the months to come. This year was no different, so we'll spare you all those predictions about phishing being the next big attack vector and skip straight to the good stuff.
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