2020 Cybersecurity Predictions – Our Experts Weigh In

With 3,813 data breaches occurring in the first six months alone, (exposing over 4.1 billion records,) and 12174 new vulnerabilities discovered in commercial and open source software, this year has certainly been one for the memory books. With all signs pointing to 2020 being equally active, we sat down with three of our resident experts to better understand what we can expect to see next year in terms of emerging threats, new defense mechanisms, and more. These predictions were all derived through observed trends, professional insight, and intimate knowledge of our industry. In 2020, we'll see an increasing number of cybercriminals use artificial intelligence (AI) to scale their attacks. Not long ago, it took days or weeks for an adversary to carry out a single, basic phishing attack.