As we walk through the doorway of 2022, it's hard not to wish at least some among us had the gift of cosmic foresight. Many (most?) of the questions we thought in 2021 that we'd have answered by this point — chief among them, when will COVID finally leave us alone??? — still seem to elude us.
In keeping with our yearly tradition, we sat down with some experts at Rapid7 and across the industry to get their 2022 cybersecurity predictions. Here's a look at what those in the know — some of them under the guise of clever fortune-teller names — think we'll be talking about in the year to come.
Rob la Mystique (a.k.a. Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security)
My third eye tells me that ransomware will become state-sponsored. Governments will notice the successful actors in their countries, and rather than shut them down, they'll seek to co-opt their activities. In other words, pirates will be coopted into privateers.
Fahmida Y. Rashid, award-winning infosec journalist
I think we will see some surprising consolidation — some giant merger that's going to dwarf even the ones we've seen so far. There's still going to be insane venture funding rounds (like Transmit Security's Series A) for security startups. But I think my prediction is that we are going to see the pendulum swing back from tools that do one thing well to large suites/integrated platforms that do all kinds of things, so the whole buying landscape is going to get even more murky and confusing.
Tod Beardsley, Director of Research at Rapid7
In 2022, managed service providers (MSPs) will continue t ..
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