New issues arose in 2020 as a result of an increase in remote workers using new and experimental methods to access classified information, as well as a large increase in e-commerce use as retail stores were closed during lockdowns. Multiple cyber threats emerge as a result of new access policies and increased traffic, necessitating the creation of new techniques to combat them.
Protecting the material in 2021, whether it’s a mobile app, digital content stored in a decentralized cloud setting, or customer data, could look quite different as a result of these innovations. Many aspects of cybersecurity, on the other hand, will stay unchanged, necessitating only a more focused effort to enforce existing policies and procedures.
Cloud risks are one of the top cybersecurity predictions and trends for 2021. During the coronavirus outbreak, the cloud vulnerability became an asset for businesses to manage business processes as remote work and online collaboration grew. Although global companies had started to migrate to the cloud before the outbreak, the pandemic hastened the process.
On the other hand, the growing adoption of cloud computing is expected to result in a slew of new security concerns and vulnerabilities. Cloud-based security risks such as poorly configured cloud storage, limited access and control, incomplete information marginalization, and unreliable cloud applications will continue to disrupt businesses.
As cyberattacks become more serious and frequent, artificial intelligence (AI) may assist insufficient security teams in staying ahead of the risks.
AI reduces the time it takes for the security team to make critical decisions and react to an attack by processing large volumes of risk data from unstructured and organized tools.
Businesses may rely on security process automation to a large extent due to a lack of qualified security personnel. Security automated systems eliminate redundant security operations by automating security operations based on established policies and procedures. As a result, security tasks can be performed more quickly, efficiently, and with fewer errors.
As a consequence of the rapid transition to operating remotely, global organizations are unprepared to monitor or identify insider risks due to unauthorized remote access, bad passwords, unsecured networks, and the exploitation of personal devices. In 2021 and beyond, these developments are expected to continue, if not intensify.
It’s hard to deny that employees who work from home are more vulnerable to cyber threats than those who work in a secure office. As a consequence, phishing has been named as one of the top cybersecurity predictions and trends for 2021, meaning that cybercriminals will continue to exploit this vulnerability in every way they can.
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