Machine Learning, Cloud, Compliance and Business Awareness Drive Cybersecurity

Senior businesses awareness of cybersecurity, legal and compliance issues and cloud-delivered products are some of the trends driving the industry, according to Gartner. According to its Top Six Security and Risk Management Trends, Gartner said that "business leaders are becoming increasingly conscious of the impact cybersecurity can have on business outcomes" and encouraged security leaders to harness this increased support and take advantage of its six emerging trends "to improve their organization's resilience while elevating their own standing." In regard to cloud computing, which Gartner said is affected by trends 3 and 6, "new detections technologies, activities and authentication models require vast amounts of data that can quickly overwhelm current on-premises security solutions" and this is driving a rapid shift toward cloud-delivered security products which "are more capable of using the data in near real time to provide more-agile and adaptive solutions." Also with regards to emerging trends, Gartner predicted that "by 2025, machine learning will be a normal part of security solutions and will offset ever-increasing skills and staffing shortages" as well as offering solutions to multiple security issues, such as adaptive authentication, insider threats, malware and advanced attackers. Peter Firstbrook, research vice-president at Gartner, said: "Look at how machine learning can address narrow and well-defined problem sets, such as classifying executable files, and be careful not to be suckered by hype.