Cybersecurity is something that is crucial for organizations operating across industries no matter the size of an organization. No organization can survive without Cybersecurity. Statistics have confirmed that by the end of 2019 only 32% of the organization at the global level was secured from cybercriminals. In fact, in India, the statistics were only 24%.

This is something that has hampered in various industries. At the moment there is no industry that cybercriminals have not exploited. Here some of the most unexpected examples one could have ever thought of:-

• Messenger industry has been attacked by cybercriminals: It has been seen that messengers like WhatsApp, Zoom, Facebook Messenger and more are being exploited by cybercriminals. This has led organizations and even consumers in losing their money. (Continue reading)
• Government agencies are also not safe: Ransomware attack on the Department of Information Resources (DIR Texas). This attack was made by a ransomware attacker named ‘Robinhood’ who got the DIR on their feet and helpless that they had no other option but to pay $18 million (USD) for the data that originally was for only $80,000. (Continue reading)
• The aviation industry has also been attacked: had undergone a cyber-attack. I know that is the least expected place to undergo any attack and a cyber-attack can be horrifying. On 13th December 2019, New York’s airport had undergone a malware attack where the airport authorities had no other option but to pay bitcoin under six figures and within two hours. (Continue reading)
• In fact, employes could also act as a phishing source: It has been seen that cyber attackers now just study the web using the pattern of the employees of a given organization to exploit the organization’s data. Which shared that there were only 10% of users that use MFA every month in their enterprises. (Continue reading)
• Even the financial sector is at risk: Where it was seen that the account of Akamai Technologies(is an American content delivery network, cybersecurity, and cloud service provider) was attacked. The attack had 85.4 billion malicious attempts to break their account”s vault. Know what was more to the story. (Continue reading)

Amongst all such things, there are some trends that we have not paid attention to. In this blog, we aim at sharing with you those elements that are not just disrupting the cybersecurity as an industry but even are bringing a change in the industry to a great extent. Here some of such trends.

1. Security integration with data science: When you look at two organizations who are into the same business it is actually the data of those two organizations that actually make them different in giving competitive edge. However, now the data scientists are also supposed to leverage AI algorithms that are available on open source. Now the interesting thing is that AI is used by the organization for task allocation but for data scientists quality of data plays a huge role.  Thus, to process good quality data requires Algorithms and handling of personal data will need to become more perceptive. In fact, this will even make things get more cautious in terms of handling the data. So when the data is being processed you must understand that you are using the right software and tool to process your data from because there are various fake tools that can take your data away from you. And this why data processing is considered riskier than data collection.  
2. Rise in ransomware: Ransomware had caught various industries last year as well where at the top of the list was Texas’s DIR. In fact, ransomware operators have taken encryption to another level. Where they use the stole data to threaten the public or sell it to the competitors.
3. Infusion of machine learning by the vendors: Cybersecurity is one place where the slightest of human error can cost the loss of millions of money. This is why vendors these days have started infusing machine learning in their services. In 2020 the Security industry is trying to solve problems that weren’t solved previously, thus, cybersecurity is slowly becoming more and more versatile. 
4. Service providers are in more risk: Organizations that are into goods based industry tend to circulate less of information on the web as compared to the organizations which are into services. In 2019 there were massive cyber breaches that were only caused by ransomware attacks. Amongst those cases, there was one such case where customers were also impacted. In fact, there was one such case where 400 customers were impacted too. Cybercriminals have targeted service providers because they can easily study the pattern of the employees of the organization to extract the data.