The field of Cybersecurity: What Lies Ahead in 2021?

In 2021, cybersecurity will remain the same, only needing a more concentrated attempt to implement current policies and procedures.

In 2020, new problems emerged as a result of rising levels of remote employees using new and experimental methods to access sensitive information, as well as significant increases in e – commerce use as retail shops were closed throughout lockdowns. With new access policies and increased traffic, multiple cyber threats appear, necessitating the development of new strategies to counteract them.

As a result of these developments, protecting your material, whether it's a web app, digital content stored in a decentralized cloud environment, or consumer data in 2021, will look quite different. Many elements of cybersecurity, on the other hand, would remain the same, only needing a more concentrated attempt to implement current policies and procedures.

According to We Forum, "The far-reaching cybersecurity breaches of 2020, culminating in the widespread Solarwinds supply chain attack were a reminder to decision-makers around the world of the heightened importance of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is a board-level issue now for many firms.

As per the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2021, cyber risks continue ranking among global risks. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated technological adoption, yet exposed cyber vulnerabilities and unpreparedness, while at the same time exacerbated the tech inequalities within and between societies."

Top Cybersecurity Trends and Projections for 2021

Threats to the cloud

One of the top cybersecurity forecasts and developments for 2021 are cloud threats. The cloud vulnerability became an asset for businesses to maintain business processes as remote work and online collaboration expanded during the coronavirus outbreak. While global corporations had begun to move to the cloud prior to the epidemic, the pandemic accelerated the process.

The increasing transformation to the cloud, on the other hand, is anticipated to create a slew of new security issues and vulnerabilities. Companies will continue to be disrupted by cloud-based security risks such as improperly designed cloud storage, restricted access and control, incomplete information marginalisation, and insecure cloud applications.

Implementation of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help inadequate security teams keep ahead of the risks as cyberattacks become more intense and frequent.

AI delivers threat information by processing vast amounts of risk data from unstructured and structured tools, reducing the time required for the security team to make important decisions and react to the attack.

Security procedures can be automated

Due to a scarcity of trained security staff, businesses can largely depend on security process automation. By automating security operations based on proven policies and procedures, security automated systems remove redundant security operations. As a result, security tasks can be completed faster, more effectively, and with fewer failures.

Threats from Inside

Unauthorized remote access, poor passwords, non – secured networks, and the abuse of personal devices have left global organizations unprepared to track or detect insider risks as a result of the rapid shift to working remotely. These trends are set to continue, if not accelerate, in 2021 or even beyond.

Phishing 

It's impossible to deny that homeworkers are more vulnerable to cyber attacks than employees who work in an office with cybersecurity systems in place. As a result, phishing has been identified as one of the top cybersecurity estimates and patterns for 2021, implying that cybercriminals will continue to abuse this weakness in every way they can. Directors of major organizations, including NGOs, are prone to spear-phishing attacks in comparison to phishing scams.