After another tough year in the cybersecurity trenches, security professionals deserve a well-earned holiday, along with some powerful gifts to help them cope with the new year’s daunting threat landscape and the security challenges to come.
Here’s our rundown of what cybersecurity professionals are wishing for this holiday season.
1. An Artificial Intelligence Ethical Hacking Tool Grand Challenge
Cybersecurity is a national security priority, and bad actors have targeted government institutions, public utilities, schools, hospitals and businesses in just the past year. With that in mind, cybersecurity pros would like to see the military’s Santa Claus — otherwise known as DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) — fund a big-dollar Grand Challenge contest for companies or universities to develop the Mother of All Ethical Hacking Simulators.
It should work like this: the system would create a detailed simulation of an organization’s entire network, including third-party cloud services, user devices — everything. Then, a monster supercomputer machine learning system would throw every known attack at it, resulting in a list of vulnerabilities and policies to fix based on cybersecurity best practices.
And since this is a wishlist, access to this cybersecurity tool should be free for all authorized cybersecurity professionals to use. Something like this would be invaluable across the industry, especially for smaller organizations that don’t have the resources to run simulations or penetration tests on their own.
2. A New Legal Framework for Ending Ransomware Attacks
One of the worst aspects of ransomware is that its victims are the ones that pay to keep it going. Organizations often feel they have no cho ..
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