Assignment #12
October 18th, 2016
Digital transformation (DT) is being fueled by the explosive growth of data and devices, and it is changing everything, especially cybersecurity. The changes will be fast and pervasive:
• Connected devices will grow by more than 50% by 2020, to 30 billion, and almost triple — to 80 billion — by 2025;
• Between 2020-2025 the volume of traditional data will grow by 2.3x;
• The volume of data that can be analyzed will grow by 4.8x; and
• Actionable data will grow by 9.6x.
At the same time data, devices and their importance are skyrocketing, internal threats — negligent or malicious employees — and external threats — i.e. viruses, phishing, ransomware and Zero-day attacks — are also surging, putting the cybersecurity threat landscape under increasing pressure. The situation is made even worse by the fact that the bad guys only have to get it right once; the good guys have to be right every time, and that is unrealistic in the face of these growing attacks.