Trend Micro, one of the world's leading providers of cybersecurity solutions, predicts that global companies will be better prepared for cyber attacks in 2022. The experts advise companies to take a comprehensive and proactive cloud-first approach to mitigating cyber risks.
Trend Micro researchers expect threat actors to concentrate on attacking data center and cloud workloads as well as particularly vulnerable services using ransomware in 2022. They will try to use the large number of employees who continue to work from home for themselves. According to the study, vulnerabilities are weaponized in record time and combined with privilege bugs to carry out successful attacks.
Still many goals: IoT, cloud, supply chains
Internet of Things (IoT) systems, global supply chains, cloud environments and DevOps functions are clearly on the target radar of cyber criminals in 2022. In addition, common malware programs are becoming more and more sophisticated and are particularly aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Trend Micro also assumes that many companies will be well prepared for these challenges. You can use the following recommendations to develop and implement a strategy to proactively contain new risks:
- Consistent server hardening and application control policies to combat ransomware attacks
- Risk-based patching and high alert when detecting security gaps
- Improved basic protection for cloud-centric SMEs
- Network monitoring for more transparency in IoT environments
- Zero trust philosophy to secure international supply chains
- Cloud security with a focus on DevOps risks and using industry best practices
- Extended Detection and Response (XDR) for detecting attacks across entire networks
"The past few years have been tough for cybersecurity teams: Due to the large-scale conversion to the home office, many faced the challenge of making the attack surface of their company ever larger and more complex," explains Richard Werner, Business Consultant at Trend Micro. "With the establishment of hybrid forms of work and the return to more planning security in day-to-day business, security officers will be able to develop a reliable strategy to close security gaps and make work more difficult for cybercriminals."
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