Cyber security Trends 2018

by Reemi Shirsath Chief Operating Officer

It is important for businesses to understand upcoming Cyber security trends as their is a growing number of Cyber attacks across industries. This has called for strict compliance rules within various domains. Starting from HIPAA to protect patient health information in the healthcare sector to Payment Card Industry Security Councils Data Security Standard(PCI DSS) in Retail.

In the face of such imminent cyber security threats, it becomes urgent for companies to adopt Cybersecurity solutions developed in-house or outsourced from cyber security experts. To this effect, some of the innovative cybersecurity trends that businesses can look forward to in 2018 are:

Machine Learning:

Machine learning (ML) is expected to come up in a big way for Cyber security solutions. Such solutions powered by ML capabilities will help predict and prevent cyber security instances in real time. It can help identify patterns of malicious activities whether on the endpoint, network, fraud or at the security management software, thus enabling easier detection of fraud.

Customized Solutions:

The growth in the number of unique businesses will lead to organizations exploring non-standard cyber security solutions including building or purchasing customized capabilities to meet compliance standards. Since the nature of every business is different, organizations will put more emphasis on solutions that are customized entirely to fit their purpose. As such Cyber security experts will be focussing more on customized solutions.

Big Data Analytics:

There will also be a lot of focus on Data processing and Analytics software capable of pulling threat intelligence feeds in addition to traditional log data.