Week-3 Tougher Challenges Ahead to Secure IT

With all these advancement in the technology field regarding the security of information from hackers and cyber threats, not only it adds information security but also gives advantage to the bad guys with the new innovations and ideas.

According to Steve Dublin, the managing director of the Information Security Forum in his interview talks about nine compelling threats which will make securing IT more challenging that ever over the next two years. In the interview, he discusses the findings of the Information Security Forum's Threat Horizon 2017 report that identifies the nice potential threats:

• Increased connectivity speeds present challenges to organizational response time;
• Criminal organizations become more structured and sophisticated;
• Widespread social unrest breaks out, led by tech rejectionists;
• Dependence on critical infrastructure becomes dangerous;
• Malicious agents weaponized systematic vulnerabilities;
• Legacy technology crumbles;
• Disruption to digital systems leads to verifiable human deaths;
• Global consolidation of organizations endangers competition and security;
• Cost of scale of data breaches dramatically.

I totally agree with this article and the interview with Steve Durbin. All these organizations are using the modern technology but not paying enough attention to the vulnerability of the infrastructure they are functioning under. Cyber-threats and Hackers are more organized and strategic and few steps ahead in the cyber-crime game. Information security needs to step side by side with the advancements of all the new technology to be less fragile.  Not only the organizations and businesses, the public themselves are becoming the target of cyber-crime so security measures are vital to everyone.

References:

http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/interviews/tougher-challenges-ahead-to-secure-it-i-2613