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ITSCs Quarterly Newsletter - April 2015

Security Threat Trends to Watch in 2015

The article originally appeared as Sophos whitepaper

7. Global skills gap continue to rise

With data breaches and attacks making the news and technology become ingrained
in our lives and the cornerstone of economies, the cybersecurity talent shortage is
becoming more prominent to both the public and private sectors. There may be a
need to revise recruitment strategies to showcase to professionals and graduates
the exciting career prospects in the cybersecurity landscape.
8. Rise of attack services and exploit kits on mobile platforms
With the increasing popularity of mobile platforms, there may be more crime packs and
toolkits focused solely on mobile devices. There have been improvements however,
such as validated application delivery and automatic updates. The next few years
are expected to witness new innovations from cybercriminals in commercialising
non-PC hacking.
9. Continued growing gap between ICS and real-world security
The security of industrial control systems (ICS) are often 10 years or more behind
mainstream desktop environments. Many of these devices and vendors follow
criteria focused on resilience and control and have not understood the language of
security unlike other technology fields. Moving forward, more serious flaws could be
exposed and used by attackers, whose motives evolve beyond financial motivations.
10. Rootkits and bot capabilities may bring new attack vectors
Many cyberattacks have taken place at the application layer. With the industry
migrating from IPv4 to IPv6 and the emergence of a new version of HTTP, changes
will likely bring interesting flaws that cybercriminals may be able to capitalise on.
As technologies, which are an integral part of both public and private sectors change
exponentially, threats also evolve fast with attackers finding new and creative ways
of exploiting users and technologies. A strong framework should be put in place so
that advanced technologies can still function while maintaining robust IT security
within organisations.
To ensure security threat trends will not disrupt or negatively impact enterprises,
security standards that comply with the use of the technology should be adopted.

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Security Threat Trends to Watch in 2015

The article originally appeared as Sophos whitepaper

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The full whitepaper can be found on https://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/

medialibrary/PDFs/other/sophos-trends-and-predictions-2015.pdf

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