For 2024, top topics range from upcoming elections to regional wars to space exploration to advances in AI. And with technology playing a more central role in every area of life, annual cybersecurity prediction reports, cyber industry forecasts and advanced research on cyber threat trends and data breaches are more important than ever before.
As predicted back in 2016, the annual growth in the breadth, depth, value and impact of security industry predictions continues unabated.
While the top cybersecurity industry reports are well-refined, clearly presented documents with video support and more, other forecasts, predictions and trends are buried in YouTube videos, conference overviews and online webcasts that are highly informative, but difficult to find.
Gartner, Forrester, IDC, IBM Security and others have excellent prediction and trend materials that normally cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to buy or to access via a subscription.
Here are some specific predictions around AI and GenAI: More effective cyber attacks than ever before against everyone, with bad actors leveraging GenAI tools to find vulnerabilities in critical sectors.
Most reports offer six to 10 predictions or more, and the top reports group their predictions and themes into categories.
1) Google Cloud/Mandiant - This team never disappoints, and they have climbed into the top position for the first time ever with a global set of forecasts, predictions and global security trends that are simply outstanding.
2) Trend Micro once again offers an excellent report that fought for the top prize with an amazing report entitled Critical Scalability: Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2024.
Trend Micro's presentation, references, detailed descriptions of each prediction and overall approach to this report sets them apart again, but they have shortened their material, which dropped them slightly into the second slot for 2024.
3) WatchGuard again wows with an amazing security prediction report, including interesting videos - and even a new blooper reel that wins the most creative twist for 2024.
4) Kaspersky - Kaspersky's APT predictions always offer an abundance of amazing security and privacy material for the new year.
Once again, their forecasts and predictions are harder to find than many of their competitors'.
5) Fortinet continues to impress with their Cyberthreat Predictions for 2024: An Annual Perspective from FortiGuard Labs.
6) Splunk - Splunk offers a very impressive security prediction report again for 2024.
They named it Security Predictions 2024: From ransomware to resilience, and how AI will impact a changing threat landscape.
Splunk starts with an interesting set of AI predictions that are good and bad at the same time.
Free Gartner 2024 predictions are listed in this chart.
8) Forrester - Like Gartner, Forrester has a paid model to receive their excellent research and prediction report for 2024.
10) BeyondTrust - A different type of cyber trend list is offered by BeyondTrust's Top Cybersecurity Trend Predictions for 2024.
12) Trellix - The Advanced Research Center at Trellix has put together an impressive report called Trellix 2024 Threat Predictions.
This Cyber News was published on securityboulevard.com. Publication date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 11:13:04 +0000