Businesses are increasingly dependent on emerging technology and reaping its benefits to provide better quality of services, change the way they collaborate and interact with employees and customers. Corporate data is being moved to multi-cloud environments, while the adoption of containers helps the fast and agile development of applications. IoT devices and sensors provide businesses with an abundance of data useful for timely and accurate decision making.
An Expanding Threat Landscape
However, businesses are not the only ones taking advantage of this technology. Criminals, as well, are following suit. According to the Verizon DBIR 2020 report, cloud assets were involved in about 24% of breaches. This is not so much an indictment of cloud security as it is an illustration of the trend of cybercriminals finding the quickest and easiest route to their victims. Containerized environments are also threatened: 94 percent of the organizations using containers have experienced a serious security issue in their container environment.
With over 38 billion devices expected to be connected to the internet in 2020, the IoT threat landscape has been gradually shaping up to be one of the threat vectors that can affect both consumers and enterprise level operations, says the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence 2020 report. IBM X-Force research has tracked multiple Mirai malware campaigns in 2019 that have shifted from targeting consumer electronics to targeting enterprise-grade hardware. Compromised devices with network access can be used by attackers as a pivoting point in potential attempts to ..
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