Cybersecurity Landscape 2023: Upcoming Trends And Risks
The year 2022 will be remembered as the year when battle lines were drawn, then redrawn, along a threat landscape stuck in a state of in-between. No longer are enterprises scrambling to find their footing amid the disruption caused by Covid-19, but for all this talk of the “new normal,” the world has yet to arrive on the other side of the pandemic.
If 2022, in the cybersecurity industry, can be summed up in one word it’d be ‘cyberattacks’. There have been severe attacks on India’s critical infrastructure, ranging from the energy sector to attacks on BFSI. Most recent attacks like the AIIMS, Tata Power ransomware attacks teaches us but one thing: cybercriminals will be spending 2023 continuously fine-tuning their methods in a more professional operation. Only a better-armed security team and legislator clamping down on crime will finally push beleaguered ransomware actors into regrouping and refining their playbooks.
As for the weakest link in any security chain- it’s the people. The rising complexity of social engineering scams, with their proven track record of exploiting people will continue into 2023 as fraudsters incorporate novel technologies like deepfakes in their schemes to stack the odds in their favour.
By 2023, the shine will have worn off the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), but the blockchain that powers them will be a safe haven for attackers who want to operate without scrutiny. Public trust in open-source software remains up in the air, as we predict more attackers rushing to cash in on the spate of open-source flaws that are bound to surface, leaving developers in the lurch. Similarly, vulnerabilities that rocked the cybersecurity industry, like Log4Shell, may be in the recent past, but still cast a long shadow over lawmakers and businesses worrying about future open-source woes. Malicious actors will weather this period of uncertainty by hunkering down and striking at old, but reliable, pain points instead of taking big risks that promise bigger payouts. They will revisit the outdated protocols and devices that enterprises should have rightly seen as dead weight long ago and treat them as fresh attack vectors.
A slew of enterprises will then see the writing on the wall and make the long-overdue shift to more holistic cybersecurity strategies. So, another emerging trend that the industry will witness in 2023 is the rise in demand for unified cybersecurity platform among organisations whose needs now call for expanded visibility over their increasing assets that are spread across various environments, networks, and operating systems.
Moreover, the growing IT infrastructure and ever-evolving threat landscape has necessitated enterprises to look into the ways to perform attack surface risk management as a continuous process.
The stark realities of cloud migration, remote working, software development, and increasing attack surface are sure to test the resilience and readiness of security teams come 2023. Getting ahead of the evolving threats that will crop up in the coming year calls for organisations to have a multilayered defense plan, bolstered by mitigation measures such as:
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