According to the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023 by the World Economic Forum [1] and the Top Strategic Cybersecurity Trends for 2023 by Gartner [2], the following are the key strategies and trends in cybersecurity protection:
Key Strategies for Protection
- Management of Threat Exposure: An approach that is systematic, practical, and effective in continuously honing the priorities for optimizing cybersecurity.
- Immunity of Identity Fabric: This strategy employs the principles of digital immune systems to identity structures. The primary objective is to reduce flaws and failures, thereby ensuring protection prior to and during cyber attacks.
- Validation of Cybersecurity: This combines various tools, processes, and techniques to validate the manner in which potential attackers might exploit a recognized threat exposure, and how the processes and systems for protection would respond.
- Consolidation of Cybersecurity Platform: This strategy reduces complexity, streamlines operations, and enhances the efficiency of employees.
- Transformation of Security Operating Model: This distributes analytical work and technology to increase the speed, variety, and volume of decision making related to cybersecurity risk, thereby accelerating business outcomes.
Significant Trends
- Ecosystems that are Responsive: These trends advance efforts to resolve risks by applying a continuous approach to cybersecurity validation and threat management.
- Approaches that are Restructured: These trends balance the requirement for operational simplicity with other platforms, and provide solutions to cover more of their expanding attack surface.
- Practices that are Rebalanced: These trends concentrate on technology, process, and people to pursue sustainable, balanced cybersecurity programs.
References
[1] “Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023,” World Economic Forum, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Security_Outlook_Report_2023.pdf. [Accessed on: 02 Feb 2024].
[2] “Top Strategic Cybersecurity Trends for 2023,” Gartner, 19 Apr. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/top-strategic-cybersecurity-trends-for-2023. [Accessed on: 2 Feb 2024]