“Startling and continued growth is what we can expect to see for the rest of the year and into 2019, balanced with a shocking increase in hacking (both criminal and industrial). Sadly, this will further highlight the increasing divide between the “have and have nots” in terms of cyber security policies and investment.”
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“New innovations like, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will drive new automated tools and techniques for both the hacker and the defender. “Big Data” will move on and become “big information”, driving a convergence in the supply chain to allow predictive insight into most aspects of our lives. An increase in broadcasted information will be tempered by a reduction in our ability to take decisions.”
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“The more integrated things become, the more the risk, so “new” innovations will also see a return to the older principles of centralisation, rather than distributed data in some areas. The concept of a balanced approach needs to be adopted. The right level of security for the appropriate threat. Too often, complex systems to secure worthless data are seen, whilst valued data is left exposed by poor practise and product choice. Testing, reporting and dashboard will all see new methodologies as the boundaries extend and in some cases disappear.”
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“In terms of security regulations, GDPR will continue to be refined and defined, but like ISO 9001 or PCI it will morph into many things for most companies: – “a tick box compliance process”, an ongoing “journey” never to be fully implemented, a salesman tool, maybe even an attempt to ensure industry tackles key security issues it faces.
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This year could see regulations enforced and understood for what they are, good business practice. Despite numerous security regulations, only in very recent years has the compliance officer had a seat at the same table as the CISO. It took some time for IT to become a “business” issue, maybe this year heralds the march of the Security Compliance Officer into the boardroom to explain the benefits and risks of a perimeter, borderless business. Ironic that in the same year we close our borders with Brexit, we open the electronic border … potentially for anyone to enter.”
