Last year was one of the worst years in cybersecurity history. Numerous cyber assaults have occurred as a result of the increased digitalization that many businesses have experienced in recent times. With the advancement of technology and the incorporation of social media and the internet into our everyday lives, phishers now have access to confidential information about everyone. Similarly, cybercriminals have left no stone unturned in their efforts to endanger businesses that use cloud services and internet apps for data storage through continual data breaches.
The pandemic has heightened the need for novel approaches to protect organizations' digital assets from a breach. Furthermore, establishing a fertile field for cyberattacks is more important than ever. As a result, many businesses are intentionally incorporating cybersecurity best practices into their workflows in order to decrease the danger of exposing sensitive data online. So, today we'll look at some top-of-mind, cost-effective, clever, and multidimensional cybersecurity trends of 2022 that are making waves in the industry with their creative and intelligent processes.
Multi-factor authentication
MFA (multi-factor authentication) has grown in popularity over the past couple decades. Furthermore, businesses have coupled passwords with MFA to provide an additional layer of security and lower the likelihood of a data breach. MFA's adaptability makes it an excellent solution for firms that frequently deal with enormous data volumes. Amazingly, multi-factor authentication requires users to confirm their identity on two or more devices. It is an efficient method of limiting data access to third-party software or people.
Security as a Service:
Many businesses are turning to cloud security-as-a-service options in response to ransomware and virus concerns. A managed service provider (MSP) or managed security service provider (MSSP) often provides these solutions. This methodology provides a larger team of technical specialists with more profound and more diversified expertise in products and processes. Furthermore, the expense is decreased since you receive the services of a security expert, an OS administrator, a virtualized administrator, a network manager, ad hoc troubleshooting, and so on for the same price as a permanent IT specialist.
Cloud security solutions
Because of the enormous benefits provided by cloud solutions, an increasing number of businesses are shifting to the cloud. To counteract malicious actors, a novel predictive security model must be implemented in order for the cloud to be safe. This approach can detect hazards before attackers start moving. Consequently, firms that have used predictive security clouds have seen their ROI grow tremendously. And in a broader sense, sectors have also embraced the use of multi-factor authentication to improve cybersecurity.
The zero-trust model:
Consider a palace with a moat. Because the boundary outside the moat stays secured, the dangers are outside if we are within the palace. When we apply this concept to the digital realm, the difficulty arises when a user believes that because he has the correct access privileges, he may travel freely all around the network and expect nothing to happen. This is the most frequent scenario: no matter how many security protections businesses put in place, fraudsters may infiltrate systems as soon as an uninformed user clicks on a phishing email or file. Indeed, this is why phishing and ransomware are so dangerous.
The zero-trust approach limits network access to all those who require it. Permitted users are provided entry depending on patterns based on identification, time, and equipment based on contextual knowledge, and default access is removed. Everything must now comply with security measures such as access control procedures and user identification checks.
Data privacy as a practice:
The growth of data privacy as a discipline in its own right is among the important data security trends. Multiple high-profile cyber-attacks have resulted in the disclosure of millions of documents containing personally identifiable information (PII). This, along with the implementation of stronger data regulations throughout the world, such as the EU's GDPR, means that data privacy is becoming increasingly important.
Organizations that fail to meet regulatory and customer expectations face penalties, negative publicity, and a loss of consumer confidence. Almost every area of a business is affected by data privacy. As a result, firms are putting a greater focus on hiring data privacy officers and ensuring role-based network access, multi-factor identification, encryption in transit and at rest, network segmentation, and external evaluations to detect potential threats and areas of improvement.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Nobody knows what the future of cybersecurity contains, and many sectors are still attempting to find out how to secure their systems in the midst of the current upheaval. Many firms may be concerned by these 2022 patterns, but they also give insight into what to anticipate in the future years. In addition, more than $100 million is expected to be invested on safeguarding organisations alone, a record amount. This clearly indicates that security software engineers and managers will have difficulty keeping up in the coming years.
