Intel Security Predictions Provide Insights
for 2017, Future of Cloud and Internet of Things Security; Poses
Six Challenges Industry Must Address
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- McAfee Labs predicts 14 security
developments for 2017
- Identifies three legal hurdles, 10
vendor actions and 11 cloud threats likely to occur in the next
four years
- Makes 21 predictions regarding Internet
of Things security threats, legal actions and vendor responses in
the next four years
- Identifies six “hard to solve”
challenges for the cybersecurity industry to overcome
Intel® Security today released its McAfee Labs 2017 Threats
Predictions Report, which identifies 14 threat trends to watch in
2017, the most critical developments to watch for in cloud security
and the Internet of Things (IoT) security, and the six most
difficult-to-solve challenges facing the cybersecurity
industry.
The report reflects the informed opinions of 31 Intel Security
thought leaders. It examines current trends in cybercrime and makes
predictions about what the future may hold for organizations
working to take advantage of new technologies to both advance their
businesses and provide better security protection.
“To change the rules of the game between attackers and
defenders, we need to neutralize our adversaries’ greatest
advantages,” said Vincent Weafer, vice president of Intel
Security’s McAfee Labs. “As a new defensive technique is developed,
its effectiveness increases until attackers are compelled to
develop countermeasures to evade it. To overcome the designs of our
adversaries, we need to go beyond understanding the threat
landscape to changing the defender-attacker dynamics in six key
areas: information asymmetry, making attacks more expensive,
improving visibility, better identifying exploitation of
legitimacy, improving protection for decentralized data, and
detecting and protecting in agentless environments.”
2017 Threats Predictions
The 2017 threats predictions run the gamut, including threats
around ransomware, sophisticated hardware and firmware attacks,
attacks on “smart home” IoT devices, the use of machine learning to
enhance social engineering attacks, and an increase in cooperation
between industry and law enforcement:
1. Ransomware attacks will decrease in volume and effectiveness
in the second half of 2017.
2. Windows vulnerability exploits will continue to decline,
while those targeting infrastructure software and virtualization
software will increase.
3. Hardware and firmware will be increasingly targeted by
sophisticated attackers.
4. Hackers using software running on laptops will attempt
“dronejackings” for a variety of criminal or hacktivist
purposes.
5. Mobile attacks will combine mobile device locks with
credential theft, allowing cyber thieves to access such things as
banks accounts and credit cards.
6. IoT malware will open backdoors into the connected home that
could go undetected for years.
7. Machine learning will accelerate the proliferation of and
increase the sophistication of social engineering attacks.
8. Fake ads and purchased “likes” will continue to proliferate
and erode trust.
9. Ad wars will escalate and new techniques used by advertisers
to deliver ads will be copied by attackers to boost malware
delivery capabilities.
10. Hacktivists will play an important role in exposing privacy
issues.
11. Leveraging increased cooperation between law enforcement and
industry, law enforcement takedown operations will put a dent in
cybercrime.
12. Threat intelligence sharing will make great developmental
strides in 2017.
13. Cyber espionage will become as common in the private sector
and criminal underworld as it is among nation-states.
14. Physical and cybersecurity industry players will collaborate
to harden products against digital threats.
For more information on the 2017 McAfee Labs predictions, please
see the blog post entitled “2017 Predictions Blog.”
Cloud Security and Internet of Things Predictions
McAfee Labs also provided predictions for IoT and Cloud security
during the next two to four years, including threat, economic,
policy, and regional trends likely to shape each area. Gathering
insights from Intel Security researchers, the following predictions
also anticipate the responses we expect to see from device
manufacturers, cloud service providers, and security vendors.
The Cloud predictions touched on topics such as trust in the
cloud, storage of intellectual property, antiquated
authentication, east-west and north-south attack vectors,
gaps in coverage between service layers, for-hire hackers in
the cloud, “denial of service for ransom” attacks, IoT
implications for cloud security models, laws and litigation versus
innovation, movement of data across borders, biometrics as cloud
enablers, cloud access security brokers
(CASBs), protection of data at rest and in motion, machine
learning, cyber insurance, and ongoing conflicts pitting
speed, efficiency, and cost against control, visibility, and
security in cloud offerings.
For more detail and insight on the report’s Cloud predictions,
please see the blog entitled “You can outsource the work, but you
cannot outsource the risk.”
The IoT predictions focused on cybercrime economics, ransomware,
hacktivism, nation-state attacks on criminal infrastructure,
challenges for device makers, privacy threats and opportunities,
encryption, behavioral monitoring, and cyber insurance and risk
management.
For more detail and insight on the report’s IoT predictions,
please see the blog entitled “Welcome to the Wild West, again!”
Six Critical Industry Challenges
The difficult-to-solve problems section of the report challenges
the industry to improve threat defense effectiveness by reducing
information asymmetry between defenders and attackers, making
attacks more expensive or less profitable, improving visibility
into cyber events, better identifying exploitation of legitimacy,
improving protection for decentralized data, and detecting and
protecting in agentless environments.
For more insight on McAfee Labs’ six hard-to-solve problems,
please see the blog entitled “Big hard to solve problems.”
For more information, please read the full report: McAfee Labs
2017 Threats Predictions Report.
About McAfee Labs
McAfee Labs is the threat research division of Intel
Corporation’s Intel Security Group, and one of the world’s leading
sources for threat research, threat intelligence, and cybersecurity
thought leadership. The McAfee Labs team of researchers collects
threat data from millions of sensors across key threat
vectors—file, web, message, and network. It then performs
cross-vector threat correlation analysis and delivers real-time
threat intelligence to tightly integrated McAfee endpoint, content,
and network security products through its cloud-based McAfee Global
Threat Intelligence service. McAfee Labs also develops core threat
detection technologies—such as application profiling, and graylist
management—that are incorporated into the broadest security product
portfolio in the industry.
About Intel Security
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Connected strategy, innovative approach to hardware-enhanced
security, and unique McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, Intel
Security is intensively focused on developing proactive, proven
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