Cybersecurity threats are capricious, given to sudden change without warning. This year, average data breach costs rose to $3.92 million while total records breached per incident surpassed 25,000.
For infosec pros, it’s easy to get caught up in current events. What’s happening right now understandably informs 2020 cybersecurity posture and investments, but history also plays a role in defining the best practices and policies that bolster security year-over-year.
With a new decade just weeks away, it’s worth looking back on what was (and integrating what is) to develop new approaches capable of handling what will be.
A Very Brief History of Cybersecurity in the 2010s
2010 saw the rise of real-time search. In 2012, companies were leveraging data at scale to drive actionable insights, and by 2014, mobile devices took their place as collaborative corporate mainstays. But these advances in technology came with commensurate increases to cybersecurity threats, as attackers recognized the value of large-scale — and often unprotected — datasets.
Some of the top threats from the past decade include:
Stuxnet infects SCADA systems (2010) — One of the first SCADA attacks, Stuxnet paved the way for Shamoon and other industrial control system (ICS) threats capable of combining physical and digital risk. As ICS and SCADA systems have become invariably linked to public-facing services via decade review takeaways cybersecurity trends
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