Cyber Defense eMagazine February Edition for 2023

means that security is part of everything that an organisation does and must think about. The geopolitical
situation continues to be volatile and evermore consideration must be given to this at an individual
organisational level. However, the bigger issue with pervasive security is about resilience and maintaining
continuous organisational operations. Without consideration being given to security, when it comes to
everything from innovation, compliance, expanding threat landscape, risk, and more, then organisations
will not be as resilient as they need to be.”
Maria Bada, Behavioural Science Expert, AwareGo believes the industry is seeing regulation efforts on
a global scale: “We see the UK taking very positive steps with the Online Harms Regulation and Policy
coming out. Also at the international level, there have been significant steps forward, not just around
cybersecurity, but in relation to cyber-crime specifically. We now see countries actually focusing on
specific ransomware related policies, which is a big step forward.”
Threat Vectors
David Edwards, CEO, ZeroDay360 predicts that “the adoption of Zero Trust systems will be one of the
biggest advancements of 2023” however, it is widely accepted among the network that the threat of
ransomware will continue.
Holt foresees that the threat of ransomware will be ever more aggressive and organised: “Long gone are
the days of a moral code being applied to cyberattacks, and pretty much every organisation is considered
fair game, evidenced by the huge impact on the healthcare industry this year.”
Human Element
According to Edwards, next year will see a move to targeting employees individually to leverage insider
fraud. He elaborates: “Employees are easier targets at home and have access to critical business
processes. Forcing employees to click on phishing emails, install programs or enable business email
compromise, will become an increasing trend.”
This sentiment is shared by Wright as he observes: “Coming out of the global pandemic, hybrid working
has created a greater risk of work information becoming mingled with personal information as the
boundaries between ‘work-space’ and ‘private-space’ and ‘work-time’ and ‘personal-time’ become
increasingly blurred.”
Valiji believes that “organisations will be investing heavily in improving user awareness - delivering
thematic and tailored awareness programs.”
What lies ahead?
With the short-term future in mind, Troy Hunt, Founder and CEO, Have I been Pwned predicts the
evolution of passwords: “Very often we hear of talk about passwords getting better, more feasible, and
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