In 2019, we saw an unprecedented surge in cybersecurity threats and the emergence of new vulnerabilities. We have seen a record number of state-sponsored cyberattacks, ransomware campaigns, and a growing number of security breaches due to negligence, ignorance, misjudgment or configuration errors in the network environment.
Migration to public clouds is accelerating, enabling organizations to transition to new, flexible application architectures. However, along with the benefits, such a transition also means new security threats and vulnerabilities. Recognizing the dangers of data privacy breaches and the severity of the consequences of disinformation campaigns, organizations are seeking to take urgent action to provide increased protection of personal information.
What is the cybersecurity landscape in 2020? The further development of technologies, from artificial intelligence to quantum computing, paves the way for new cyber threats.
Artificial intelligence will help launch fake news and disinformation campaigns
Disinformation and false news can be detrimental to businesses and organizations. In today's digital world, artificial intelligence has grown in importance and is being used as a weapon in the cyber arsenal at the state level.
Deep learning algorithms to generate fake images and videos are becoming more and more advanced. This application of artificial intelligence will be the catalyst for large-scale disinformation or fake campaigns, targeted and personalized to the behavioral and psychological profile of each victim.
Data leakage due to stupidity or negligence will occur less often
Reports from The Wall Strert Journal show that data breaches in the cloud are due to a lack of adequate cyber defense measures and tools. Garter estimates that up to 95% of breaches in cloud infrastructures are the result of human error. Cloud security strategies are lagging behind the pace and scale of cloud adoption. Companies are exposed to an unjustified risk of unauthorized access to information stored in public clouds.
According to the forecasts of the author of the article, Radware cybersecurity expert Pascal Geenens, data leakage due to misconfiguration in public clouds will gradually come to naught in 2020. Cloud and service providers have taken a proactive stance and are serious about helping organizations reduce their attack surface. Organizations, in turn, gain experience and learn from past mistakes made by other companies. Businesses better assess and mitigate the risks associated with their migration to public clouds.
Quantum communications will become an integral part of security policies
Quantum communications, in terms of applying quantum mechanics to protect information channels from unauthorized interception of data, will become an important technology for organizations handling confidential and valuable information.
Quantum key distribution, one of the most well-known and developed applications of quantum cryptography, will become even more widespread. We are at the dawn of the dominance of quantum computing with its potential to solve problems beyond the power of classical computers.
Further exploration of quantum computing technology will cause tension in the ranks of organizations dealing with valuable and confidential information. Some businesses will be forced to take unprecedented measures to protect their communications from cryptographic attacks using quantum communications technology. The author suggests that we will see the beginning of this trend in 2020.
Modern understanding of the composition and properties of cyber attacks on web applications, practices for ensuring application cyber security, as well as the impact of the transition to microservice architecture are discussed in the Radware study and report
Source: habr.com