21 April 2015

5 cybersecurity trends to watch at the RSA Conference

April 20 2015 

What will feature at one the world's key cybersecurity events?

This week the cybersecurity industry will descend on the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the RSA Conference, one of the sector's most prestigious events.
For five days visitors will be bombarded with information on cloud computing, smartwatches, and everything in between, the last year having seen cybersecurity rise up the board agenda as the likes of Home Depot, Sony and eBay were penetrated by hackers.

Security vendors are naturally hoping to flog their wares and advice to the conference's numerous attendees. As such many have released security reports discussing the latest trends, which will dominate the event.

Here is what you need to know:
1. Verizon - Hackers are going pro

The "death of the perimeter" was a much discussed trend last year, not least in Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), which tracks denial-of-service attacks, insider threats and cyberespionage, among other things.

Speaking to CBR about the 2015 edition, Jay Jacobs, principal of Verizon Risk, said: "The interesting thing is when we look at these nine patterns [of attack] overall they don't shift this year. There's some variation here and there but there but there's no major shift."

What Jacobs puts this down to is a move towards a more professional kind of crook, with gangs of hackers now operating in teams and frequently reusing tactics and infrastructure to maximise efficiency. For some cybercrime is now a career.

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