Authored by Maninder Singh, Corporate Vice President - CyberSecurity Services, HCL Technologies
1. Summary
iii. Focus on integrated approach to cybersecurity operations
iii. Cloud insecurity grew in 2018 and, unfortunately, it will carry on growing even more in 2019. Increasing amounts of data are being deployed from disparate parts of organizations, with more and more of that data ending up unsecured.
vii. Software Defined Infrastructure revolutionizing security – As large enterprises conduct PoCs and adopt Software defined Infrastructure, the cybersecurity frameworks evolve leading to lesser consumption of hardware security controls. This also requires massive upskilling for current practitioners. HCL is working towards ensuring security controls in this new age infra are also securely monitored and managed
viii. Phishing attacks leveraging AI – AI enabled phishing attacks have ensured large scales success for intruders. Security solutions hinge on educating users as well as establishing AI enabled controls. Organizations need to focus on these technologies.
iii. Increase in enterprise wide material attacks – Ransomware attacks like Wannacry, Bad rabbit and security breaches like Equifax have increased the clamour within enterprise boards to review their existing security posture infused with a sense of urgency. This is leading to large scale downstream focus on security services.