ENTERING A NEW ERA OF HACKTIVISM

Hacktivism, deepfakes, attacks on business collaboration tools, new regulatory mandates, pressure to cut complexity will top organisations’ security agendas.

We are entering a new era of hacktivism, with increasing attacks motivated by political and social causes. According to Check Point Software’s cyber security predictions for 2023, Hacktivism, deepfakes, attacks on business collaboration tools, new regulatory mandates, and pressure to cut complexity will top organisations’ security agendas over coming year.

Business and technology executives need to have cyber security as the top priority in the view of the fact that cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated and their numbers have only increased during the last year. Further, as businesses look to reduce cost and complexity from the entire digital and security stack, consolidation will become a real priority.

In 2023, some of the technologies which are anticipated to go mainstream are Internet of Things, IoT and Internet of Medical Things. We also continue to see breakneck adoption of AI, ML tech in the military, finance and in medicine. As this technology continues to grow, major players look to consolidate these technologies along with rapid expanding use of AR, VR.

Additionally, smart cities are on the horizon as many governments want to leverage technology for modern living and public services. Security is

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rarely even an afterthought for these platforms, and therefore businesses will be looking for technologies and solutions around these areas as well in the coming year.

In the fast-paced, high-stakes world of risk management, keeping informed about recent developments and cuttingedge trends is beyond essential. Organisations also need to consolidate and automate their security infrastructure to enable them to better monitor and manage their attack surfaces and prevent all types of threat with less complexity and less demand on staff resources.

Security teams need to consolidate their IT and security infrastructures to improve their defences and reduce their workload, to help them stay ahead of threats. Over two-thirds of CISOs stated that working with fewer vendors’ solutions would increase their company’s security.

Key Takeaways

l As businesses look to reduce cost and complexity from the entire digital and security stack, consolidation will become a priority.

l Some of the technologies which are anticipated to go mainstream are Internet of Things and Internet of Medical Things.

l Smart cities are on the horizon as many governments want to leverage technology for modern living and public services.

l Security teams need to consolidate IT and security infrastructures to improve their defences and reduce their workload.

It is clear that most businesses are committed to moving forward with progress a Net Zero Future. Technology not only ensures that we use the assets at our disposal judiciously, but they can also automate extra menial basic tasks as a result releasing up the human workforce to address more interesting and profitable endeavours.

Technologies like Artificial intelligence, AI, machine learning, and the Internet of Things, IoT are potential technologies for improving cutting-edge working techniques to attain most beneficial energy efficiency. Fundamentally, they present great opportunities to improve the environmental performance of current and future business practices.

Check Point Software focuses on providing organisations with the ability to conduct their business with the highest level of security. Check Point Infinity portfolio of products focuses on those technologies and capabilities that will provide uncompromised security.

Check Point Software has taken over 80 products and technologies all managed by Check Point Infinity-Vision, the industry’s leading unified security management solution and organised them into the following core pillars:

- Check Point Harmony - for secure users and access,

- Check Point CloudGuard to automatically secure clouds environments,

- Check Point Quantum to protect network perimeters and datacentres, and

- Check Point Horizon - that provides XDR, XPR, MDR, MPR, and events management solutions. n