The Future Of Cybersecurity

Written By Max Justice

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Cybersecurity will continue to evolve in an open source environment where the community benefits from commercialization and affordability at enormous computing speed and memory capacity.  Companies can fulfill their role by strategically cooperating with cybersecurity specialists and by investing in solutions and infrastructures that protect their most important digital resources - data.  Risk requires an understanding of the financial implications of the threat landscape (which is constantly changing), maturity control (including cybersecurity parameters) and the type of business assets, industry, size and geographical location. 2

Where artificial intelligence and cybersecurity overlap, society at large, and in particular national security, would be better served if potential traps were taken into account and at the same time resolved.7  The reason is because many of these attacks involve people who practice poor cybersecurity and easy of use for popular and widely used hacking (script-kitty) techniques.6  This does not mean the good hackers/attackers, good/bad actors don’t use scripts, bots and other tools; they absolutely do.  Defenders use automation and machine learning to repel attacks from anywhere in the world. Cybersecurity specialists use these advanced algorithms and technologies to prevent attacks from attacking them.4

So what’s in store for 2020

The general outlook for in the US will be the US elections in 2020, targeted ransomware, more ways to attack the cloud, and the explosion of fake technology problems.12  The rest of the world will face very similar challenges.  With the development of new trends in cybersecurity, strong education that puts emphasis on creativity, core competencies and consideration of changing problems will be key.4

To face this trend, we need to create urgency specialists from all industries to increase urgency, because technologies such as cognitive computing, analysis of large data sets and the IoT, further develop and influence our increasingly cross-linked world in an unprecedented way.  The speed to market is going to be extraordinary and is directly related to the need for the Urgent Specialist.     For example, the complexity of securing corporate networks against intruders and cybercriminals will increase dramatically with a large number of remote sensors and intelligent devices connected to global supply chains.5  Additionally, cybersecurity is no longer reserved for international companies and well-paid consultants: today, people are taking steps to avoid becoming victims of cyber wars, and war requires urgent thinkers. 

A Cyber War

In preparation for this cyber war, there are three key technologies that should drive the development of cyber war in the coming decade; AI, quantum computing and data (insurance) forecasting.6  While many government institutions and agencies have adopted data protection laws, the increasingly complex threat landscape requires widespread cultural change in terms of security.

By introducing AI into their defense strategy, people can also focus on analyzing the causes and effects during a cyber attack and responding to false detection if necessary.  Unlike cyber attacks, defenders have a hard time introducing new trial technology because new trial technology can threaten or undermine the stability of defense systems.8  If defenders lag behind cyber attacks in terms of technology or defense systems, this advantage is likely to be even greater.8  Cyber​​security experts use technology, knowledge and skills to ensure that their organizations comply with these guidelines and reduce the risk to individuals and companies.4

There seems to be separate ways in which artificial intelligence can help secure computer systems, both in detecting vulnerabilities against hackers and in detecting the presence of malicious code. 7 Common malware, scripts, publicly available security tools or administrator software, combined with several false flags that security researchers are hungry for minor hints, may be enough to redirect authorship to someone else. 12

Quantum communication, the field of quantum physics used to protect information channels from eavesdropping, is becoming an important technology for organizations dealing with sensitive and extremely valuable information.12   Sensitive information such as passwords an now kept by those who practice good cyber-hygiene in a Password Manager.  Password Management software has improved performance in recent years. Most of them are designed to simplify and improve online security by removing a large amount of manual effort from the task using algorithms that propose and store passwords that are complex enough to reduce the likelihood of your presence being hacked.1  

Data (Insurance) Forecasting: Incorrect cloud database configurations will continue to harass companies around the world and will be the main cause of data breaches in 2020.12  Companies who leave their resources open on the Internet and do not implement strong authentication are the targets of opportunistic attacks.2  To meet this need/demand for secure solutions, Insurance companies will more readily get into the market of forecasting you needs. They will do this by leveraging all of the data they can collect or tap into and develop large, medium and small market services which meet the security requirements, security design, security reviews and security tests. 3

Additionally under Data Forecasting: The social media revolution (still) will be a fraudulent activity, and arithmetic propaganda will play an important role in the increasingly polarized political landscape around the world and in the US presidential election.  We will also see a need for securing building operating systems is becoming a priority for many companies because there may be greater risks associated with related construction technologies.12

Like Petja and Wannacry, the Github attack is an example of how civilian machines (including those you are reading on) can become assets in the ongoing cyber war.6  Tomorrow bad actors will use our machines against us to involve attacks on key infrastructures such as power grids, nuclear enrichment facilities and rocket launch systems.6  Knowing this, today is a good day to strengthen and improve your cyber-hygiene.

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