1. Planning Goes Mainstream
2014 was the year that retailers learned that a good response to an incident is as critical a skill as the ability to stop an attack. Organizations spent hundreds of millions of real dollars in 2014 responding to incidents, and they are learning from that experience that an ounce of prevention is worth hundreds of millions of pounds of cure.
2. Big Data and Security Meet at the SIEM
While not mainstream in 2014, many leading companies are moving beyond security information and event management (SIEM) services and using big data techniques to predict what will happen so they will have time to prevent incidents. Based on this strong start, look for far greater adoption of predictive big data in 2015.
3. Threats Keep Evolving
As 2014 saw the release of highly evolved threats, we can agree this came true. In many cases, criminals launched these threats — which used to live only in the systems of governments and defense companies — against retail, entertainment, finance, healthcare and more.
4. Your Security Scope Expands
This 2014 warning that your supply chains are fast becoming threat-entry points was proven time and time again, evidenced by high profile attacks against retail and energy using “trusted” suppliers as their entry points. Continuous monitoring for advanced threats and behavior-based security event analysis engines are two measures that can help prevent supply chain vulnerabilities.
5. Passé Passwords
Disappointingly, 2014 saw us remain tethered to passwords that don’t work. We learned that sony123 is not a great password choice and, in fact, passwords themselves are no longer the answer. Federated identity ecosystems are here and will be more widely adopted in 2015.
6. Keys Are the Key to the Cloud
Many more organizations adopted the cloud in 2014 — the ability to own their own keys helped prompt this widespread adoption. Companies also introduced much great new technology to maintain keys and control while leveraging the cloud in 2014; this new technology should drive dramatic enterprise cloud adoption in 2015.
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8. Transnational Crime Becomes More Concerning Than Governments
Money was still the top motivator for cyberattacks in 2014, and the organizations behind organized crime became more technologically coordinated, advanced and ruthless.
9. Shhhhhh! — Securing Your Voice
Several new secure mobile phones, secure VoIP and add-on security, especially for international journalists, rolled out in 2014 as people realized that many governments and criminals eavesdrop. 2014’s new crop of offerings should continue to grow in 2015.
10. Quit It!
Managed security continued its double digit growth in 2014, fueled by companies’ desires to turn much of their security operations over to trusted security pros who can keep up with the tech and threat evolutions.
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