Security 2016: What to Expect in the New Year

Sale of Data

Prediction: Data selling and nation-state attacks increase.

According to CounterTack, we will continue to see the selling of data by malicious actors to finance their organization's goals — whether it is nation-state or terrorist related. A recent Ponemon study showed that 35 percent of the organizations surveyed were certain they had already been victims of a nation-state attack.

Tip: Create a culture of security across the organization and make everyone a security stakeholder by ensuring training is targeted, repeatable and measurable. Second, it's critical to understand the delineations between nation-states targeting your organization vs. commodity malware processes running. From there, more intimately understanding an organization's threat landscape allows you to make the right decisions around detection, prevention, analysis and remediation of threats.