Indian Enterprises Will Invest In Security Big Time In 2018

With the threat landscape changing by the day , 2018 will See Aggressive Adoption of Various Security Technologies as Enterprises Look at Ways and Means to Secure Their Digital Assets
 

- Ron Davidson

2017 will undoubtedly be considered as ‘Year of ransomware’, the year when the global security landscape was forever changed by attacks like WannaCry and Petya. The havoc caused by these attacks reached far beyond the paltry ransom demand. Hospitals turned away patients. Production lines came to a halt. Nuclear radiation monitoring was disrupted. Cyber events like these were a wakeup call to the brave new world of cyber attacks and how they could reach further into the ‘real world’ than ever before.

But it’s not just ransomware and the threat landscape that have changed. Digital transformation initiatives like the move to the cloud and the increasing convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) have drastically changed networks and expanded responsibilities of security teams tasked with protecting them. These initiatives, for all their business benefits, have caused network complexity to skyrocket — an issue cyberattackers are all too eager to exploit. All the while, the labor force to safeguard against attacks remains stubbornly inadequate.

As we head into 2018, here’s a look at the cybersecurity trends sure to emerge amid the intersection of the most capable threat landscape, the most complex networks and a worldwide —including India — skills shortage:

HYBRID NETWORKS STRETCH ATTACK SURFACES

The attack surface — the total sum of the ways an organization is susceptible to cyberattack — is like a balloon. It expands with the introduction of new attack vectors and attack targets, like extensions into virtual, cloud and operational technology environments. It contracts with the good cyber hygiene and risk reduction. The larger your attack surface, the more likely it is to pop.