Cybersecurity

As with the other areas we’ve highlighted for 2024, the cybersecurity landscape will continue to evolve with both persistent challenges and new trends.

A key aspect of this evolution involves the continued rate of incidents, highlighting the importance of maintaining a transparent response towards customers. Transparency is best practice yes, but beyond that, we anticipate it will become the norm, with organisations doing their best to establish trust by openly communicating about incidents and the measures taken to mitigate them.

Another important development in the field is the absolute necessity for automation within cybersecurity operations. The aim here is to prioritise and automate as many processes as possible, therefore reducing the reliance on extensive human resources such as large Security Operations Centre (SOC) teams, to respond to threats. This approach is about efficiency, and enhancing the effectiveness of cybersecurity measures by allowing technology to handle routine tasks, enabling human experts to focus on more complex challenges.

So, with all that being said, our cybersecurity predictions for 2024 paint a picture of a domain that’s rapidly adapting to new challenges. With an emphasis on transparency, automation, supply chain security, budgetary efficiency, and a critical view of regulatory impacts, organisations are being urged to rethink and refine their cybersecurity strategies in the face of an increased evolutionary pace in the threat landscape.