{"id":44686,"date":"2020-01-07T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T09:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=44686"},"modified":"2020-01-15T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:14:29","slug":"a10-networks-cyberattacks-will-be-the-norm-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2020\/01\/07\/a10-networks-cyberattacks-will-be-the-norm-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"A10 Networks: Cyberattacks will be the norm for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mohammed Al-Moneer, Regional Vice President, MENA at A10 Networks, looks at what cyberthreats enterprises need to be aware of in 2020. He says: \u201cCyberattacks are indeed the new normal. Each year brings new security threats, data breaches and operational challenges, ensuing that businesses, governments and consumers have to always be on their toes.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 has arrived and it\u2019s\ntime to have a look at what is in store for enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since we are in the business\nof securing our enterprise customers\u2019 infrastructures, we keep a close eye on\nhow the security and encryption landscape is changing so we can help our\ncustomers to stay one step ahead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, ransomware made a\ncomeback, worldwide mobile operators made aggressive strides in the transformation\nto 5G, and GDPR achieved its first full year of implementation and the industry\nsaw some of the largest fines ever given for massive data breaches experienced\nby enterprises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 will no doubt continue\nto bring a host of the not new, like the continued rash of DDoS attacks on\ngovernment entities and cloud and gaming services, to the new and emerging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are just a few of the\ntrends we see coming next year: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ransomware will increase\nglobally through 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ransomware attacks are gaining widespread\npopularity because they can now be launched even against smaller players. Even a small amount of data can be used to hold an\nentire organisation, city or even\ncountry for ransom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will see at least three\nnew strains of ransomware types introduced: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022          Modular or multi-leveled\/layered ransomware and malware\nattacks will become the norm as this evasion technique becomes more prevalent.\nModular attacks use multiple trojans and viruses to start the attack before the\nactual malware or ransomware is eventually downloaded and launched<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022          70% of all malware attacks will use encryption to evade\nsecurity measures (encrypted malware attacks)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To no surprise, the cybersecurity skills gap will\nkeep on widening. As a result, security teams\nwill struggle with creating fool-proof policies and leveraging the full\npotential of their security investments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slow adoption of new encryption\nstandards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although TLS 1.3 was\nratified by the Internet Engineering Taskforce in August of 2018, we won\u2019t see\nwidespread or mainstream adoption: less than 10% of websites worldwide will\nstart using TLS 1.3. TLS 1.2 will remain relevant and therefore will remain the\nleading TLS version in use globally since it has not been compromised yet, it\nsupports PFS, and the industry is generally slow when it comes to adopting new\nstandards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversely, Elliptical-curve\ncryptology (ECC) ciphers will see more than 80% adoption as older ciphers, such\nas RSA ciphers, are disappearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decryption: It\u2019s not a choice\nany longer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TLS decryption will become\nmainstream as more attacks leverage encryption for infection and data breaches.\nSince decryption remains a compute-intensive process, firewall performance\ndegradation will remain higher than 50% and most enterprises will continue to\noverpay for SSL decryption due to lack of skills within the security teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mitigate firewall\nperformance challenges and lack of skilled staff, enterprises will have to\nadopt dedicated decryption solutions as a more efficient option as next-generation\nfirewalls (NGFWs) continue to polish their on-board decryption capabilities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyberattacks\n<\/a>are indeed the new normal. Each year\nbrings new security threats, data breaches and operational challenges, ensuing\nthat businesses, governments and consumers have to always be on their toes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 won\u2019t be any different,\nparticularly with the transformation to 5G mobile networks and the dramatic\nrise in IoT, by both consumers and businesses. The potential for massive and\nwidespread cyberthreats expands exponentially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s hope that organisations, as well as security vendors, focus on better\nunderstanding the security needs of the industry, and invest in solutions and\npolicies that would give them a better chance at defending against the\never-evolving cyberthreat landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mohammed Al-Moneer, Regional Vice President, MENA at A10 Networks, looks at what cyberthreats enterprises need to be aware of in 2020. He says: \u201cCyberattacks are indeed the new normal. Each year brings new security threats, data breaches and operational challenges, ensuing that businesses, governments and consumers have to always be on their toes.\u201d 2020 has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":44687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36,4115,3629,13,79],"tags":[1446,390,1530,2256,148,3426,104,1043],"class_list":["post-44686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-security","category-intelligent-technology","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-newsletter","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-1446","tag-5g","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data-breaches","tag-enterprises","tag-gdpr","tag-malware","tag-ransomware"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44686"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44803,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44686\/revisions\/44803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}