Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2020. Read them in this 12th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
By Marty Puranik, President & CEO of Atlantic.Net
Cybersecurity yet again the top priority for future innovation!
Cybersecurity
will again be at the forefront of critical business decisions made in 2020 and
beyond. There will be a much heavier reliance on Artificial Intelligence (AI)
for smarter cybersecurity decision making and decision making automation.
There is no
doubt that cybercriminals will exploit more sophisticated and complex
cyberattack vulnerabilities, AI can give businesses the upper hand to create
intelligent, data powered cybersecurity technology to thwart attacks.
We predict that
the continued investment in AI will increase dramatically as organizations
realize the high potential use cases in day-to-day business operations. In
particular, fraud, malware and intrusion detections as
well as user/machine behavioral analysis as the desire of company executives to
comply with strong cybersecurity policies will start to peak.
Data breaches, ransomware and cyberattacks
will continue to be daily news for global organizations, there will continue to
be rapid investment in human cybersecurity analysts, and cloud automated AI
infrastructure.
AI and machine
learning will continue to automate cybersecurity defense frameworks and there
will be a significant shift away from signature-based recognition tools to pattern-based recognition tools
powered by AI predictions.
Businesses will
further push a "zero trust security model", forcing
authentication on all internal and external traffic from a perimeter network.
Compliance guidelines will shift to be rooted in the principle of "never trust, always verify".
AI/ML processing
clusters can learn petabytes of predictive datasets from SOAR technology
endpoints in relatively no time at all; enabling the capability of automated
responses to specific scenarios. There will eventually be less reliance on
human interaction but we are still a long way from fully-fledged AI autonomy.
The changes we
predict will no doubt result in tougher, more robust compliance requirements,
and more multifactor security controls for end-users, but it will ultimately
result in greater controls over data privacy in the digital era.
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About the Author
Marty Puranik co-founded Atlantic.Net from his dorm room at the University of Florida in 1994. As CEO and President of Atlantic.Net, one of the first Internet Service Providers in America, Marty grew the company from a small ISP to a large regional player in the region, while observing America's regulatory environment limit competition and increase prices on consumers. To keep pace with a changing industry, over the years he has led Atlantic.Net through the acquisition of 16 Internet companies, tripling the company's revenues and establishing customer relationships in more than 100 countries. Providing cutting-edge cloud hosting before the mainstream did, Atlantic.Net has expanded to seven data centers in three countries, with a fourth pending.