Cyber-attacks are going to be bigger, louder, and faster in 2023

Diwakar Dayal, MD and Country Manager for India and SAARC region - SentinelOne

“One of the major challenges in the cybersecurity space is that cyber-attacks are going to be bigger, louder, and faster. More organizations will be breached and more critical infrastructure will be impacted. In 2023, threat actors will target macOS more successfully with cross-platform malware.  More supply chain attacks on developers and shared repositories are also likely to feature this year. With social networks, multi-tasking, and the evolution of devices around us, adversaries will keep investing in social engineering and phishing will continue to be a leading factor in compromising identities.

Every CISO is aware that finding skilled cybersecurity staff is not only hard but getting harder and this trend will continue in 2023 as well. CISOs have to take some steps to tackle the skills shortage challenge.  They have to move away from ineffective labour-intensive legacy AV security products, toward automated endpoint detection and response solutions.

The cybersecurity skills shortage is related to the complexity of the network. The answer to network complexity is network visibility. Automated AI solutions can help bring visibility to the network so that one can see who is traversing it and what they are doing. However, the next-gen AV product chosen should have the ability to inspect encrypted traffic, as bad actors are increasingly operating with SSL certificates and communicating via https. This is still a blind spot for many next-gen security products.”