Forcepoint has unveiled its predictions about the cybersecurity landscape for 2020. These predictions span across topics such as attacker techniques, communication platforms, infrastructure adoption, data protection legislation and cybersecurity strategies.
Deepfakes-As-A-Service increases ransomware effectiveness and election interference
With the growing complexity and realism being brought in to Deepfakes, it is predicted that the media will move to the forefront in 2020 as it becomes widely adopted for both fun and malicious reasons. It is anticipated that deepfakes will be deployed to impersonate high-level targets at enterprises in order to scam employees to transfer money into fraudulent accounts. Additionally, we will observe Ransomware authors target recipients with realistic videos of themselves in compromising situations, using Deepfake technology. In the arena of politics, we expect deepfakes to be leveraged as a tool to discredit candidates and push inaccurate political messages to voters via social media.
5G offers unprecedented data theft speeds
Fifth generation cellular network technology (5G) allows data transfer at a 10 times faster rate than 4G. While this appears to be a promising service for organisations, the more reliable connectivity and lower latency of 5G will also work in favour of determined employees wishing to transfer swathes of corporate data. With the roll-out of 5G continuing in 2020, cybersecurity stack needs to have visibility and control of such data movement else organizations risk being unable to identify data theft at the speed necessary.
Organizations will become “Cloud Smart” but remain “Cloud Dumb”
As organisations increase their adoption of cloud infrastructure, we should expect to see greater and greater breaches of Public Cloud systems. Even as enterprises move to a Cloud Smart or even Cloud First agenda to streamline their digital transformation journey, when it comes to securing these cloud infrastructures, they continue ..
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