From: Jara Kern
After Cybersecurity Awareness Month and getting started with our Security and Assurance edition, this month we’ve focused on the top cybersecurity news. 5G news, especially when it comes to breakthroughs and trending research, also played an important role in our round-up. Finally, we look at headlines in the field of innovation and the doers and doers that will shape telecommunications and corporate IT in 2022.
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Industry research hit the headlines this month as we took stock of where we are in a dynamic market with rapidly evolving security threats. Businesses and public sector organizations continue to see exponential growth in the volume and complexity of cyberattacks, with new research from BT showing a more than 50 percent increase in malware traffic over the past six months. As companies grapple with a global shortage of skilled security professionals, they struggle to maintain their defenses as cyber threats change rapidly. New findings from Hitachi ID during Cybersecurity Awareness Month have shown that only 16 percent of organizations have adopted a zero trust security strategy that uses fully integrated identity and access management tools. Check Point Research observed a weekly increase in cyber attacks on companies of 40 percent compared to the same period last year in 2021. In September 2021, the average weekly number of attacks on any organization worldwide peaked with over 870 attacks. This is more than twice as many attacks as in March 2020. This month, HP released its latest Threat Insights report with an analysis of real-life cybersecurity attacks. The HP Wolf Security threat research team has found evidence that cybercriminals are rapidly mobilizing to weaponize new zero-day vulnerabilities.
With this increasing pressure, new research from Kaspersky found that 92 percent of managed service providers in North America are currently planning to add new services to their cybersecurity portfolio, with threat intelligence being the first choice.
New security product and service offerings came onto the market. Telefonica Tech and CyberArk are working together to provide an expanded portfolio of SaaS-based cybersecurity solutions that prioritize a security-focused approach to protecting against identity-driven risks for B2B customers and operators. NETSCOUT has launched a new managed service offering that provides 24/7 testing, monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting for customers’ critical IT services and applications. In other IoT security news, Keysight has released new IoT security assessment software that enables IoT chip and device manufacturers and organizations that deploy IoT devices to conduct comprehensive, automated cybersecurity assessments.
In the security trend news, the FIDO Alliance is pursuing passwordless authentication on its way to mainstream. FIDO’s online authentication barometer will track public acceptance of secure authentication technologies. This tool will provide basic insights into the state of online authentication in 10 countries around the world, with future versions of the barometer being able to compare changes in behavior and attitudes over time.
We have officially entered the season in which trend-oriented analyzes help us with the year-end – and there is a lot about 5G. According to a new publication from IHS Market, 5G is driving a new industrial revolution. This study shows that global 5G industry investment will reach $ 4 trillion in 2035, and another $ 12 trillion will be invested in related applications powered by 5G.
Juniper Research shows that global 5G service revenue will reach $ 73 billion and 8.5 of total operator revenue by the end of 2021, a growth of 250 percent more than
