In recent years, cybercrime has surpassed actual theft as a major problem worldwide. The Internet has become a soft target, making it simple for hackers to gain access to the inner workings of many businesses.
In 2022, 21 % of the world’s enterprises were attacked by ransomware. 43 percent of these businesses reported a major impact on their operations. Since February 2022, when the war broke out in Ukraine, the global threat posed by cyberattacks has climbed by 16 percent.
Next-generation cyber risk company Resilience aims to make the globe cyber resilient. This year showed the need of integrating technology, economics, and behavior to reduce cyber risk and protect your organization’s data. In 2023, firms must be cyber resilient, integrating risk mitigation and risk transfer to withstand a digital blow without impacting value delivery.
Data now powers nearly every part of our modern lives, and our reliance on digital assets will only grow in the years to come. As data quantities increase and access methods evolve, protecting your data – and the applications and systems that rely on it – necessitates tackling complex and frequently conflicting factors. Acronis has developed a novel approach, Five Vectors of Cyber Protection, that successfully balances these criteria.
Cyber protection enables access while balancing it with the requirement to make digital environments and assets safe, private, authentic, and secure.
Manage who can see and access all of your digital assets by giving them the appropriate permissions.
Develop incontrovertible and formally recognised evidence that a duplicate is an exact replica of the original.
Integrated defence against all online threats, including novel strains that exploit undisclosed weaknesses, is needed to secure your digital environment.
Some of the trends we expect to see in 2023 include combining cyber-security and insurance are;
- More security for Hybrid and Remote workers
As businesses determine their needs for long-term in-office presence in 2023, we will observe an increase in the number of efforts made to secure remote and hybrid workers. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic in the year 2020, workers have moved from their cyber-secured offices to the networks in their homes. Due to poorer networks, working in public locations, and the usage of work gadgets by uninformed users who accidentally allow in bad actors, this caused the likelihood of a cyber-attack to increase. This was an unintended consequence of the situation.
In the year 2023, there will be an increased emphasis placed on training remote or hybrid workers on the most effective cybersecurity measures and the methods they may use to keep their equipment secure.
- Ransomware Threats
The risk of ransomware attacks will encourage enterprises to prioritise data exfiltration. A ransomware attack that is successful poses an existential threat to businesses. In this feature on ransomware assaults, Candid Wüest, vice president of cyber protection research at Acronis, stated, “Organizations of all sizes require a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity that includes anti-malware, email-security, and vulnerability assessment skills.” Cybercriminals are getting too sophisticated and the consequences of cyberattacks are becoming too terrible to rely on single-layered approaches and point solutions alone.
Due to the increasing sophistication and frequency of ransomware attacks, it is crucial that all businesses develop plans for bolstering their cyber resilience.
- Focus on IoT Security
Visibility, control, and remediation in response to supply-chain and the Internet of Things (IoT) will become a top priority. Due to the fact that 43 billion people are linked to the internet, manufacturers must ensure that their internet-connected gadgets are created with security in mind. Internet users face additional security risks due to poorly configured cameras, microphones, and sensors.
Due of the access they provide to partner vendors, supply chain assaults against manufacturers are gaining popularity among malicious actors. Due to the urgency to continue supply operations, factories frequently pay their ransoms faster than other businesses. Manufacturers and security providers will take these factors more carefully in 2023.
- Focus on People
Humans will remain the primary entrance point for malicious actors. Despite greater cybersecurity awareness, rules, training, and legislation, human error will continue to be the weakest link in all organisations’ security tool chains. No matter how tiresome or redundant security training may appear, it must be conducted on a regular basis and across the entire organisation to lower the likelihood of a successful phishing assault.
Global cybersecurity protection will be a greater issue in 2023, particularly for vital infrastructures and ransomware assaults. While governments in the United States and Europe attempt to enact legislation to protect online data, it is our obligation to remain informed about dangerous trends and best security practises.
Everyone in the modern digital world requires protection. For all data, apps, and systems, only Acronis’ tested, integrated solution offers simple, effective, dependable, and safe cyber security. There is no way to predict the future of cybersecurity with perfect accuracy.
Managing cyber protection in a constantly evolving threat landscape is a challenge. By deploying Acronis Cyber Protect in the Acronis Cloud, you can provide powerful cyber protection to any endpoint, regardless of location – making it ideal for today’s mobile and remote work environments.
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