What do you think will be the top Cyber Security trends for 2016 and why?
In the last five years, three major forces were responsible for the growth of cyber security industry: the expanding attack surface, the industrialization of hacking, and the complexity and fragmentation of the IT security market. Looking ahead, our research labs indicates that the main trends for 2016 will be the continuing expansion of the attack surface (from rise of IoT, entrenchment of
BYOD and initiatives from the government like Digital India), evolving tactics of cyber criminals, the rising cost of breaches in the enterprise with ransomware attacks on the rise, the lack of integrated security technologies, and a shortage of skilled security professionals.
On the business/enterprise front, I think attackers have already developed a level of sophistication that is well beyond the hobby-hacker of the past. We