Outdated infrastructure, Internet of Things threats, the proliferation of technology, and Internet trust are among the issues that experts predict will cause the biggest problems for security pros by 2022. Businesses will face crises as attackers exploit immature technologies and unprepared victims.
The Information Security Forum's (ISF) "Threat Horizon 2022" outlines nine threats, broken into three themes, that organizations can expect to face in two years. ISF has been releasing these reports for more than a decade to help security practitioners prepare for the years ahead.
"The main purpose of the Threat Horizon is to allow organizations to have the risk discussion, assess vulnerabilities, and have a common set of potential threats they can discuss across the business," explains ISF managing director Steve Durbin. Sometimes, he says, a threat predicted to affect businesses in one year may evolve to become a different kind of threat in two years. ISF saw this with biometrics, which were predicted to offer "a false sense of security" in 2020.
Now we're seeing a new threat around biometrics, Durbin says. "What we've seen more recently is the impact of biometrics, or the threat in the way biometrics are used and stored," he explains, referring to social media's collection of facial data as an example. In 2018, ISF predicted artificially intelligent malware would amplify attackers' capabilities; its latest report anticipates businesses will need to worry about AI's role in creating deepfakes on the Internet.
"Not only is it an issue in malware, but it's also turning up in the way digital content can be manipulated by AI and undermine digital communications," Durbin explains. The threats in ISF's report shouldn't be viewed in isolation; they can ..
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