Cybersecurity regulations were long viewed as an esoteric afterthought, even as technology exploded into every corner of our lives. But that's no longer the case, as governments and businesses seek to get a better grip on privacy regulations and data protections. At Egnyte, we track legal and regulatory trends closely so we can better serve our customers and respond to changes. Based on those observations, here are our cybersecurity regulation predictions for 2022.

The number of ransomware attacks continues to grow, and that trend will likely continue in 2022. Organizations will be attacked, files will be encrypted, and victims will need to decide whether to pay ransom or try to implement expensive and painful recovery techniques on their own. That much, unfortunately, should come as no surprise, but what will be different is how those attacks are carried out.

Keeping a team aligned isn’t easy. Not every meeting can possibly include every single team member, and updating a multitude of Notion pages with all the details regarding every discussion is an entire project in itself. The data that informs decisions is shared to separate groups of people, many of which don’t necessarily work closely together.

Nowadays, teleworking or following a hybrid work model has become commonplace. The question we need to ask ourselves is, is our remote connection secure? The National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States has published a best practices info sheet for government workers and contractors working in areas related to national security and defense. info sheet supplies advice on how to avoid cyberattacks due to a compromised or unsecured wireless connection.

A vulnerability was discovered in the named DNS server implementation contained in the development branch builds of BIND 9. This is a story of catastrophe averted. It’s a case study for the value of fuzzing in software development. Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) researchers discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in development branch builds of BIND 9 by Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).

FIN7 is a well-organized criminal group composed of highly-skilled individuals that target financial institutions, hospitality, restaurant, and gambling industries. Until recently, it was known that high-level individuals of this criminal enterprise were arrested — specifically 3 of them — and extradited to the United States. This criminal group performed highly technical malicious campaigns which included effective compromise, exfiltration and fraud using stolen payment cards.

Every organization needs strong internal controls to ensure the integrity of financial statements and to promote ethical values and transparency across the enterprise. Internal controls are the mechanism to do those things; controls help to identify risks and then reduce them to an acceptable level.

Cyberattacks can take many forms. Those intended to disrupt a business often happen as denial of service (DoS) attacks, and its even more disruptive cousin, the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Such attacks are often executed by a botnet, which is a network of infected machines or connected devices at the order of a botmaster. Botnet attacks present yet another challenge for security and IT teams focused on cybersecurity.

The rapid pace of technological progress has let companies around the world benefit from operational improvements that lower costs. This progress, however, also brings risks that companies must take into account to protect their stakeholders. Cyber-threats are executed by cybercriminals using various means to gain access to an organization’s digital infrastructure.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been an increase in the volume of sensitive patient data being stored and processed by healthcare organizations. A patient’s health history, including all the treatments, procedures, prescriptions, lab tests, and scan reports, are stored in the form of electronic health records (EHRs).