Individuals, businesses, and governments must all prioritise cybersecurity now. Cyberattacks grew not only in size and scope, but also in sophistication in 2021.
Individuals, businesses, and governments must all prioritise cybersecurity now. Cyberattacks grew not only in size and scope, but also in sophistication in 2021. In reality, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) estimates that 12.1 lakh cybersecurity incidents occurred in India till October 2021.
Every day, Microsoft scans analyzes 8.3 trillion signals for potential malicious behaviour in email, desktops, laptops, and cloud applications that people use for work and personal use.
Microsoft Security has identified five cybersecurity paradigm shifts for 2022:
Digital Empathy:
Thinking about how humans behave and interact with technology is referred to as digital empathy. We can make digital solutions more inclusive by adding empathy to them. In the context of cybersecurity, this entails developing tools that accept greater diversity in terms of people and their ever-changing situations, viewpoints, and varied abilities.
The importance of the Zero Trust journey is growing:
Zero Trust is a security posture that assumes a breach and requires robust identity authentication everywhere. As we go past the epidemic and into a period when workforces and budgets have recovered, Zero Trust will become the most important area of cybersecurity investment. This means that, whether we realise it or not, we are all on a Zero Trust path right now.
It is crucial to have a Diversity of Data:
Microsoft monitors roughly 24 trillion signals every day from a wide range of products, services, and feeds all across the world. The diversity of data in 2021 allowed us to understand Covid-19-related attacks in a broader context. This is an example of how the power and scale of the cloud and data have a distinct edge in the fight against cyber threats.
The company’s resiliency is linked to its cyber resilience:
Cyberattacks are becoming more common and sophisticated, and they are increasingly targeting core business systems in order to maximise the impact of the attack or the probability of a ransomware payout. We know that a comprehensive approach to operational resilience must incorporate cyber resilience in this setting. Microsoft benefits from a strategy that focuses on 4 fundamental threat scenarios: Weather incidents, unforeseen events like earthquakes, legal events like cyberattacks, and pandemics like Covid-19.
Putting a higher emphasis on integrated security:
The agility and callousness of cybercriminals were brought to light in the first half of 2021. Organizations must be able to see across their apps, endpoints, network, and users to detect shifting attacker strategies and stop them before they cause serious damage. Faced with a new economic reality, businesses will be compelled to cut costs by incorporating security capabilities into their cloud and productivity platforms of choice.