Ride the Lightning

Cybersecurity and Future of Law Practice Blog
by Sharon D. Nelson Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Gartner’s Crystal Ball: Its Top 10 Security Predictions

June 28, 2016

Network World posted Gartner's top 10 security predictions, along with some explanations and background material so it is worth reading the entire thing. But in a nutshell, here are the predictions:

  1. "Through 2020, 99% of vulnerabilities exploited will continue to be ones known by security and IT professionals for at least one year."
  2. "By 2020, a third of successful attacks experienced by enterprises will be on their shadow IT resources."
  3. "By 2018, the need to prevent data breaches from public clouds will drive 20% of organizations to develop data security governance programs."
  4. "By 2020, 40% of enterprises engaged in DevOps will secure developed applications by adopting application security self-testing, self-diagnosing and self-protection technologies."
  5. "By 2020, 80% of new deals for cloud-based cloud-access security brokers (CASB) will be packaged with network firewall, secure web gateway (SWG) and web application firewall (WAF) platforms."
  6. "By 2019, 40% of identity as a service (IDaaS) implementations will replace on-premises IAM implementations, up from 10% today."
  7. "By 2019, use of passwords and tokens in medium-risk use cases will drop 55%, due to the introduction of recognition technologies."
  8. "Through 2018, over 50% of IoT (Internet of Things) device manufacturers will not be able to address threats from weak authentication practices."
  9. "By 2020, more than 25% of identified enterprise attacks will involve IoT, though IoT will account for only 10% of IT security budgets."

Yes, I know that is only nine predictions – and I counted them twice in the post. Beats me. However, I do want to pass along one overriding recommendation with which I agree: Businesses must be aware that delaying security measures in an effort to avoid disrupting business can be a false economy.

Ain't that the truth?

Hat tip to Dave Ries.

E-mail: Phone: 703-359-0700
Digital Forensics/Information Security/Information Technology
http://www.senseient.com
http://twitter.com/sharonnelsonesq
www.linkedin.com/in/sharondnelson