The level of cyber threats and
breaches are increasing every day. Cyber criminals and hackers are getting
better and more sophisticated than they were ever. The authors of this article
talks about five trends that professionals need to understand and worry about
to face and deal with the threats.
Cybercrime: With all these new innovations and better
network, the internet has been a great hunting ground for cyber criminals,
terrorists and trouble makers. Incidents related to money, personal records and
much other critical information are stolen and misused by these hackers for
their personal benefits. 2014 was a great year for them since they were able to
dominate the security due to their performances and moderns tools available.
2015 will be a challenging year for everyone. The article emphasizes that
organization must be well prepared for the unpredictable and unforeseen events
that might increase risk of hacktivism and increase the cost of recovery from
these kinds of incidents.
Privacy and Regulations:
According to the article, most governments have created or in process to create
the law that impose organization to create regulations to safeguard and use of
PII. They might have to deal with penalties if the valuable information and PII
are compromised which might lead to damage in reputation and loss of customers
due to security breaches.
Threats from Third-Party Providers:
A large amount of information is shared during the transactions between
organization and their supplier. When the suppliers share that information with
a third party vendor or organization, there is no direct control of
information. For example, when the attack happen in Target last year, the
hackers broke the application the HVAC vendor used to submit the invoices. The
hackers broke into the HVAC vendors online services and stole millions of
valuable information of Target customers. Now since there is risk of
information being stolen from the third party providers, it is hard for them to
continue their services and provide assurance of data C.I.A. So, to be on safe
side, the contracting services should work with the IT personnel to make sure
the information are not compromised.
BYOx Trends in workplace: Bring
your own device trend is increasing every day in organizations. Since all the
personal devices comes with a lot of applications and cloud based storage, and
when they are accessed in work places, organizations are seeing the increase of
security risk related to valuable information from both inside and outside
threats. Even though, organizations make regulations related to use of personal
devices at work, employees will find a way to use it. Since this trend is
increasing, organization should at least take some serious security measures to
make themselves vulnerable.
Engagement with your people: And
it all comes to people. The article states that people are the greatest assets
and they are the most vulnerable. Organizations have been spending a lot of
money educating and providing valuable knowledge about their responsibilities.
Authors in the article states that organization should rather change to creating
solutions and embedding information security behaviors than promoting awareness
of the issues.
As a conclusion, 2015 is not
going to be an easy year regarding security of information. Organization should
take all the available security measures to save themselves from being a victim
from cyber threats and hackers.
References:
http://www.cio.com/article/2857673/security0/5-information-security-trends-that-will-dominate-2015.html
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