WHAT SHOULD CISOS
BE PRIORITISING
IN 2019?
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• Digital assistants to become the next
vector for home IoT attacks
• Data-rich social media platforms will
continue to be popular attack targets
endors from
across the
cybersecurity
sector have
revealed their
2019 threat
predictions in
a bid to help CISOs make informed
decisions this year.
One such example is the McAfee Labs
2019 Threats Predictions Report which
identifies rising trends and how they
are predicted to change the cyberthreat
landscape in 2019.
McAfee researchers expect malware-
as-a-service families to strengthen,
energising the market for attack
outsourcing and the evolution of
increasingly innovative and agile
attack methods.
As a result, corporate data, home IoT
devices and brand reputations will
be under siege, with cybercriminals
largely using social media, the cloud
and mobile phones as increasingly
prominent attack vectors.
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Predictions
• Cybercriminal underground to
consolidate and collaborate through
stronger partnerships
• Prevalence of attack outsourcing will
lead to use of Artificial Intelligence in
evasion tactics
• Bad actors will combine multiple
attack types to create synergistic
super threats
• Cybercriminals to use bots,
negative social media campaigns
to extort brands
• Significant increase expected in data
exfiltration attempts from the cloud
“In 2018, we witnessed even greater
collaboration among cybercriminals
through underground alliances,” said Raj
Samani, Chief Scientist at McAfee. “This
collaborative mentality has allowed for
efficiencies in underground technologies
and tactics, and the evolution of bad
actors into some of the most organised
and agile adversaries in the world.
However, while we expect the underground
market collaboration to continue, the year
2019 will also see cybersecurity alliances
of defenders continuing to mature and
further fortify defences.”
The report reflects the informed opinions
of thought leaders from McAfee Labs,
McAfee Advanced Threat Research
and members of McAfee’s Office of
the CTO. It examines current trends in
cybercrime and the evolution of IT, and
anticipates what the future may hold for
organisations, consumers and those
working to protect them.
Read more 2019 security predictions
at intelligentciso.com
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