FEATURE: CYBERSECURITY
ANSECURITY
David Peters, Technical Director, ANSecurity
D
avid Peters, Technical Director at
ANSecurity, provides us with an insight
into data breaching, protection and security
for businesses.
Criminal services expand
As predictable as day follows night, 2018 will
see more high-profile breaches impact large
and well-known companies. What will be less
visible to the public will be the activities of
Crime-as-a-Service (CaaS) which will expand,
allowing more focused criminals to rent
resource for ransomware campaigns that
may never be exposed to the light of public
scrutiny. Repeats of a ‘ransom-worm’ using a
true zero-day vulnerability is a major concern
over the coming year.
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THE TOP TREND FOR THE COMING YEAR
IS THE ADOPTION OF BLOCKCHAIN –
THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND BITCOIN
– AND ITS IMMENSE POTENTIAL TO
DISRUPT AND TRANSFORM THE WORLD
OF MONEY, BUSINESS, AND SOCIETY
USING A VARIETY OF APPLICATIONS.
next 12 to 18 months will likely see a major
IoT vulnerability within a commonly used
shared library that will have a major impact
and will make international news. may well motivate organisations that have
previously put their heads in the sand.
GDPR may raise broader
InfoSec awareness There seems a growing public awareness
about security, especially within the consumer
electronic market that is being remade by the
growth of IoT. A major incident in 2018 that
impacts a large number of users where the
culprit is a major vendor and the result is a
class action lawsuit, might well be the catalyst
for vendors to start building better security
within products from day one, instead of the
‘launch fast and patch later’ situation we
have today. n
The approach of the GDPR deadline will
hopefully raise awareness of the need
for good practice around security that
spreads from beyond IT to other areas
of the organisation. Laziness around
password security and lack of two-factor
authentication are still issues that are hard
to overcome but the big stick of GDPR fines
Law suits prompt better security
Advertising and CDN misuse will rise
The rise of CaaS will also lead to increasing
sophisticated ransomware and phishing
campaigns as well as the misuse of advertising
and other Content Delivery Networks for drive-
by exploitation as well as more well-crafted
and convincing email campaigns.
IoT is a soft spot
Over the last few years, the growth of Internet
of Things (IoT) has been a major trend which
will only accelerate during 2018, leading to a
bigger surface area to launch DDoS attacks
and as a conduit for injecting malware. The
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INTELLIGENTCIO
In 2018, some
interesting
applications of
Blockchain and
IoT in the area of
cybersecurity
will emerge
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