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RSA Security has announced
its 2019 security predictions;
foreseeing trends that will
dominate the cybersecurity
landscape in the Middle
East region.
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Based on RSA’s own research
and discussions with partners and
customers it sees four key trends
emerging in the year ahead:
Trend one: Consumer
technologies at the core of
the enterprise
IoT started on the consumer side with
wearable devices. However, security
was at the low end of consideration
and passwords were embedded at
the factory level, which meant that
most IoT devices were not secured.
While data leaks due to poor security
on consumer IoT devices may not
pose that much risk (consumers may
not care if the number of steps they
took in a day are leaked), once these
devices make their way into the
business and enterprise use-cases,
that risk grows.
Trend two: The rise of
Shadow IT
Shadow IT, where systems and
solutions are built and used inside
organisations without explicit
organisational approval, is a growing
digital risk in the region and there
will potentially be data breaches next
year targeting organisations through
this growing exposure surface.
Trend three: The accelerated
rate of cloud adoption
The Middle East market has been
slower to adopt the cloud as it has
been portrayed as something unsafe.
But adoption is now growing, as it’s
no longer a choice for the business.
It’s a reality.
In the next year, cloud adoption
will accelerate significantly and
organisations will have more
confidence in the cloud overall.
This will put pressure on regional
organisations to keep themselves
secure through the transition. This
includes ensuring their identity and
access management remains up to
par and that their risk programmes
expand to cover third party.
Security was at
the low end of
consideration and
passwords were
embedded at the
factory level, which
meant that most IoT
devices were not
secured.
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