Russ Kennedy, chief product officer at Nasuni, provides five predictions for how the cyber security landscape will continue to evolve in 2022 Five predictions that will shape the cyber security landscape in 2022 image

Organisations are recognising that cyber attacks are a huge challenge and starting to invest in and adopt new methodologies to tackle this; in fact, spending on cyber security is expected to be up 12% in 2021 alone. Enterprises’ biggest challenge in ransomware attacks is remote working – it can be incredibly challenging to protect critical assets and infrastructure in a remote setting, which has increased the level of sophistication of such attacks. Cyber criminals will continue evolving and change tack – instead of trying to extort ransom monies, they will increasingly be mounting larger scale industrialised attacks in 2022, aimed primarily at disrupting the normal operation of businesses and governments. Despite this shift, attackers are also motivated by the global notoriety and media headlines that result from their exploits.

In 2022, organisations will need to prepare from a foundation of analysis, discovery and recovery perspective if they are attacked, better to detect and respond quickly to attacks. Organisations are increasingly educating their workforces to understand new cyber threats and how to detect them on a personal level. Furthermore, organisations will no longer pay ransoms if they have a way to recover in a reasonable period of time. In 2022, if an organisation’s recovery is not geared up to happen in minutes, it is not doing the right thing. Recovery in minutes will become the standard for enterprises and those that do not will fall behind the curve and lose out to your competitors, especially in productivity terms.

In more detail, here are the top predictions that will help shape cyber security in 2022:

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