Check Point’s cybersecurity predictions for the coming year
By Evan Dumas, Regional Director, Southeast Asia, Check Point Software Technologies Source: Check Point. Dumas. Hindsight is 20/20 vision, as the old saying goes: it’s always easy to know what the right course of action was after something has happened, but much harder to predict the future. However, by looking at security developments over the past couple of years, it’s possible to forecast what’s likely to happen in the cyber landscape over the next 12 months. Here are the key security and related trends that we expect to see during 2020. Targeted ransomware 2019 saw ransomware exploits getting highly targeted against specific businesses, as well as government and healthcare organisations. Attackers are spending time intelligence-gathering on their victims, to ensure they can inflict maximum disruption, and ransoms are scaled up accordingly. Phishing attacks go beyond email While email remains the No. 1 attack vector, cybercriminals are also using a variety of ...