FEATURE
The sophistication
of this attack
will be like none
seen before and
organisations must
prepare themselves.
professionals and the industry
as a whole. From overseeing the
implementation of the General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR), to
the record-breaking number of data
breaches, CISOs have had increasing
pressures on their shoulders. And, as
technologies like Artificial Intelligence
(AI) gain more prominence and
emerging technologies such as quantum
computing are pursued even further,
2019 looks like it could be another hard
year for the industry.
With all this in mind, what might the next
12 months bring the security industry?
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Issue 09
• Quantum computing puts pressure
on cryptoagility. Next year will
see the emergence of the future of
security – cryptoagility. As computing
power increases so does the threat
to current security protocols. But one
notable example here is encryption,
the static algorithms of which could
be broken by the increased power.
Cryptoagility will enable businesses
to employ flexible algorithms that
can be changed, without significantly
changing the system infrastructure,
should the original encryption fail. It
means businesses can protect their
data from future threats including
quantum computing, which is still
years away, without having to tear
up their systems each year as
computing power grows.
• Hackers will launch the most
sophisticated cyberattack ever
using AI in 2019. Up until now,
the use of AI has been limited, but
as the computing power grows, so
too do the capabilities of AI itself.
In turn this means that next year
will see the first AI-orchestrated
attack take down a FTSE 100
company. Creating a new breed
of AI powered malware, hackers
will infect an organisation’s
system using the malware and sit
undetected gathering information
about users’ behaviour and
organisations’ systems. Adapting
to its surroundings, the malware
will unleash a series of bespoke
attacks targeted to take down
a company from the inside out.
The sophistication of this attack
will be like none seen before
and organisations must prepare
themselves by embracing the
technology itself as a method of
hitting back and fight fire with fire.
• Growing importance of Digital
Transformation will see
the rise of cloud migration
security specialists in 2019. As
organisations embrace Digital
Transformation, the process of
migrating to the cloud has never
been under more scrutiny; from
business leaders looking to
minimise any downtime and gain
positive impact on the bottom
line, to hackers looking to breach
systems and wreak havoc. As
such, 2019 will see the rise of a
new role – the cloud migration
security specialist – to help
the CISO securely manage the
transition. Whether the role is
internal or external, a vital part of
supporting the CISO is to ensure
that as workloads transition to the
cloud they are secure from any
potential hackers. u
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