#GartnerSEC: Trends and 'Mega Trends' Include Cloud, Passwords and Business Strategies

Trends and 'mega trends' for 2019 and the future include cloud delivery, business strategy and communication and the continued battle with passwords as a form of authentication.

Speaking at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in London, Peter Firstbrook, VP analyst at Gartner, said that the “controls of security are shifting, and the focus needs to shift to new forms of controls.”

Firstbrook said the mega trends of the next 10 years will be:

The skills gap is real and growing, as the reality is, it is hard to find qualified security professionals
Regulations and privacy concerns are not going away
Cloud application scale and complexity will continue to grow, as organizations move to the cloud and complexity increases with more of use of containers, APIs and virtualization
Attackers are showing no signs of letting up, and their “creativity” continues to increase

Firstbrook said that all of these mega trends are external “and beyond your control” and are all things that have to be accommodated for. When it comes to internal mega trends, Firstbrook said that these include: realizing that “perfect is not possible” and companies adapting to that concept when planning to detect and respond, that cloud delivery is here for security services and that communication is key, especially as we talk the language of the business and help it understand choices for resolving risks.

For the overall 2019 trends, Firstbrook identified seven major trends:

Fusion of products and services: He said that some MSSPs are now “OEM’ing” other security products, and he encouraged anyone using managed services to determine how easy those products are to use.

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