Introduction
Covid 19 has taught us to live with constant challenges whether it’s about thehealth of human beings or the health of the internet, IT, and businesses. Alongwith making our immune system strong, the time has come to make the immunesystem of your cyber world to protect your businesses.
Remote working has its own pros and cons; one of them is the burning challengeof cyber security. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, the number ofdata breaches that happened in the year 2021 topped the total for the entire yearof 2020. It has become very easy for hackers to expose your personal informationor shut down your entire business as almost all the business has come online.
Ignorance in cyber security will not only cost any organization losses of billions ofdollars but also their reputation is at stake, due to theft of exposure of personalinformation of their customers. To counteract these attacks, it’s a must for you toknow the emerging trends in cyber security. Small businesses are more likely tobe targeted by hackers due to insufficient cyber security measures.
In this article, we are going to discuss the top Cyber Security trends of the year2022 and how they are going to reshape internet privacy and IT security.
Top 5 trends Cybersecurity 2022
1. Cyber Threats for the Healthcare Sector
Hospitals and healthcare organizations are more involved in digital security asdata breaches are common cyber security threats in health care. When therewas no concept of remote working in the year 2015-2019, that time also almost 157.40 million healthcare records were exposed.
Due to pandemic and remote work culture healthcare organizations haverelaxed their firewall rules to make it easier for staff to work online. Manyhealthcare organizations also expanded telehealth services and erecttemporary medical facilities which have bypassed some of the securitydiligence of vendors or lacked the common security infrastructure present inestablished hospitals.
Because of this, cyber-attacks in healthcare are far from being stopped. Databreaches are a continuous threat for health organizations as sensitiveinformation about the business, employees and patients remain the top targetof cybercriminals.
Global newswire 2020 has predicted the rise in the healthcare cyber securitymarket to jump to 33.65$ billion by the year 2027 from 9.78 billion in the year 2019. Taking into account this clearly means that hospitals and healthcaresectors are going to invest hugely in cybersecurity.
2. Machine Learning to decode Cyber Threats
Machine learning can be your biggest savior in terms of cyber security.Decoding cyber threats has become easy with machine learning. ML has madecybersecurity easy, effective, and less expensive.
ML can anticipate and respond to active attacks in real-time by developing andmanipulating the patterns from the data set. For this technology to workeffectively the data should be rich and effective and it should represent all thepossible scenarios so that it can make an effective algorithm.
With this technique, it has become easier for a cyber security system to predictthe cyber criminal’s behavior and analyze threats. Click here to learn moreabout the Machine Learning Trainings offered by Big Data Trunk.
3. Predictive Cloud Security against Cyber Threats
Today when every business is considering cloud migration, IT professionalsshould reconsider cloud security and take measures to tighten it.
Some or all the cloud services do not have secure encryption, authentication,and audit logging.
Even some service providers are not able to isolate the data from other tenantssharing space in clouds.
Because of poor configuration in cloud security cybercriminals can bypassinternal policies which protect sensitive information in the cloud database. Tokeep this in mind now many cloud service providers are adapting predictive andinnovative security to combat cyber attacks.
Predictive security helps to identify threats before attackers begin their moveand pinpoint the attacks that pass through other endpoint security. This leadsbusinesses to implement predictive security cloud with the market gaining a 261% ROI for over three years now. Click here to learn more about the GCP Cloud Security Trainings offered by Big Data Trunk.
4. Phishing Threats
Both Cybercrime and Cybersecurity are products of the human mind, that’s whyno matter how smartly you secure your digital space, there are always chancesthat criminals may get over your efforts.
One such example is a phishing attack. The problem with phishing attacks isthat you don’t even know that you are affected. You may get an email fromNetflix with the subject line “Action required. Your Netflix membership has been declined”.
And if you owing a Netflix account, then you may be worried that yoursubscription may get canceled, and then you would log in to an email to rectifythe situation. If you don’t then you may fear something related to identity threat.
As per the 2019 Data breach investigation report of Verizon, 32% of databreaches involved phishing activities. Thus phishing is more likely to beprevalent in the coming years.
In the year 2020 alone there were 60000 phishing websites and 1 in 8employees have clicked on that website and showed their information.
This leads businesses to adapt and invest in comprehensive security awarenessprograms. Organizations are investing in implementing simulators that canexplain and recognize emerging patterns of such cyber attacks.
5. Cybersecurity Challenges in Education sector
Cybersecurity has become a top priority in the education sector as well with thegrowing culture of online education. Cybersecurity in online education involvescompromised student data.
In the year 2021, the student data of 3 universities were hacked. This compelledthe people in the education sector to tighten the security for the protection ofstudent, faculty, and research data in institutions.
Until now people in the education industry have not focused much oncybersecurity and performing poorly in patching cadence, network security, andapplication security. But now due to increasing cyberattacks institutions arepaying more attention to a new security architecture that includes post-perimeter security on endpoint protection, access to the cloud, and identityinformation.