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Cybersecurity in defence: Key trends
Cybersecurity in defence: Key trends

April 4, 2021

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Most organisations are putting their faith in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve threat intelligence, prediction, and protection. 

It is also providing cover for the continuing cybersecurity skills gap. Despite AI’s potential for good, future AI-driven attacks are likely. 

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted why cyber-naïve remote-workers need security awareness training to thwart hacker attacks.

Attackers will target immature technologies, meaning 5G communications, smart cities, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are all at risk.

Below are few trends impacting the cybersecurity in defence theme, as identified by Global data.A

AI malware threats

AI plays a key role in defending against cyberattacks, but a growing concern is the that AI is being used offensively within malware. Hackers have already started using AI to accelerate malware, causing code to constantly change and thus making it more difficult to detect.

Future AI techniques could allow hackers to bypass facial security and spam filters, promote fake voice commands, and bypass anomaly detection engines. A linked trend is the growing use of non-malware threats. Criminals mask their activities from security tools by blending in and posing as real users in the targeted organisation’s network, using stolen credentials, and running legitimate tools to dig through victim’s systems and data.

Converged risk

The manufacturing industry and power plants are being threatened by the convergence of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT). Both were once separate networks, and the security risk was lower. Now, the facilitation of data exchange between the two networks offers greater business benefits but introduces significant risk.

The cost of data breaches

The cost of data breaches continues to rise, and many affected organisations are unaware of the ultimate cost. Canadian financial services group Desjardins said the cost to it of a data breach in 2019 was $108m. Sometimes it seems there is one impact for the rich and one for the poor, with large companies having the legal resource to fight fines and smaller companies having to pay up.

In May 2020, EasyJet admitted a cyberattack had affected approximately nine million customers. It is only the deterrent of reputational damage to, and heavy fines for, large companies over General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) breaches that will force organisations to better protect their customers’ data.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks

XSS was a prime cyberattack method in 2019, according to a research by PreciseSecurity.com. XSS, in which an attacker aims to execute malicious scripts in a victim’s web browser, made up nearly 40% of all attacks logged by security researchers, with 75% of large companies across Europe and North America targeted during the year. Websites fall prey to XSS attacks because most need to be interactive, both accepting and returning data from users.

Source: Army Technology


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