Here are 3 trends contributing to global cyber insecurity:

1. The environment is becoming increasingly complex.

Today, you have digitization of information, the proliferation of OT and IoT devices, web 3, etc., leading to more vulnerabilities.

There are also third-party risks that lead to 70% of breaches.

We could be doing a great job protecting our company. But then we may send a document to a law firm that gets hacked, and all of a sudden, our sensitive information is out in the open.

1. Hackers have access to more sophisticated cyber weapons than before.

Back in the 1980s, the attack sophistication was very low.

Robert Morris developed a self-replicating worm in 1988 that took down the entire Internet, but most attacks were just around brute forcing and guessing the passwords.

Now, the attackers use sophisticated self-assembling botnets using all kinds of techniques like return-oriented programming to avoid detection.

And there's a thriving dark market where for only $40, you can direct millions of infected computers against your competitors’ websites with just a click of a button.

1. Most companies are focusing on wrong solutions.

80% of the budgets are spent on reactive solutions that detect less than 5% of our threats.

Instead, we need to be proactive and adopt a resilience thinking where we design our systems to be resilient to any type of attack from outside.

What are some other trends you’re seeing in cyber security?

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