We’ve all heard dire predictions about the future of cybersecurity trends, especially cloud security. Internet of things (IoT) environments will expand the attack surface beyond control and encourage breaches. Hybrid offices will always pose a greater risk as cyber criminals exploit flex and remote work. Insecure application programming interfaces (APIs) will open the door to attacks. Attackers will hijack employee accounts. Cloud resources will lack visibility.
But what if these threats and risks are overblown? Here’s why all these dire predictions about cloud security might never come to pass.
Prediction: The Out-Of-Control IoT Attack Surface
Employees install random, internet-connected devices like coffee makers that connect to the network but which those employees don’t even consider IT devices. Office equipment. Mobile gadgets. Wearables meant to make them more productive. Sensor-based warehouse devices. All manner of shadow and orphaned IT. And each device could be a door into the network for threat actors.
This risk is largely one of knowledge and scale. It’s the devices that you don’t know about that can’t be secured. And the sheer number of devices can overwhelm.
But just as the coming years involve an explosion in the number of devices, mostly driven by the IoT boom, tools become more automated and intelligent. The IoT will be made much more secure by artificial intelligence (AI)-based network automation tools that find and inventory all the IoT devices connecting to a network. Enabling automated action in the event of a discovered incident will have to become mainstream. We’ll bring the feared out-of-control attack surface under control with intelligent automation.
Prediction: Hybrid Work Poses Risks
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