Top 4 security trends to watch for 2021

According to the 2020 Crowdstrike Global Security Attitude Survey conducted in August and September, 27% of ransomware victims paid a ransom fee in the previous 12 months, paying on average $1.1 million. Cloudflare reported that some groups, including Fancy Bear, Cozy Bear and Lazarus, are now condu...

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Published inCSO (Online)
Main Author Nadeau, Michael
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Framingham Foundry 08.12.2020
Subjects
Access control
Cloud computing
COVID-19
Cybersecurity
Denial of service attacks
Malware
Nation states
Pandemics
Privacy
Ransomware
Risk management
Security management
Security services
Threats
Trends
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Summary:According to the 2020 Crowdstrike Global Security Attitude Survey conducted in August and September, 27% of ransomware victims paid a ransom fee in the previous 12 months, paying on average $1.1 million. Cloudflare reported that some groups, including Fancy Bear, Cozy Bear and Lazarus, are now conducting ransom-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Greg Wood, senior vice president for information security and risk management at the Walt Disney Company, spoke at the CSO50 conference about how CISOs should talk about security going into 2021. Respondents say they will either evaluate or invest in these technologies for 2021: * Zero trust (40%) * Deception technology (32%) * Authentication solutions (32%) * Access controls (27%) * Application monitoring (25%) * Cloud-based security services (22%) 4.