Information security is getting tougher every year. The Internet of Things, cloud infrastructure growth, widespread mobile device use, the explosion of social media, and similar factors have resulted in an environment where security breaches are not only increasing in number, but also in intensity and area of influence.
Despite this rapid growth, the United Kingdom’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2016 surprisingly shows that only 69% of enterprise senior managers consider cyber security as high priority, and just 51% of those enterprises have acted on recommended actions against cyber risks. Moreover, only 29% of enterprises surveyed had a formal cyber security policy, and only 10% possessed a formal incident management plan.
Enterprise senior managers require increased awareness of both recent security breach statistics and current trends, in order to begin understanding the IT world’s security challenges and to become more conscious of security in general and information security in particular. The following are just a few of the most relevant trends expected for 2017.