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Information Security Trends to Watch Out for in 2020 by Jonhrobinson(m): 6:37pm On May 18, 2020
Cybersecurity in the past has majorly impacted most of the industries, the corporate world, governments' bodies, and the general public as well and have caught attention for good and bad reasons.
There is no sign of a decrease in the incidents of data breaches and theft. According to Forbes magazine, by the 2019 first half, cybercriminals breached the personal information and credentials of more than 4 billion users across the globe. As the significance of the digital world is trending, businesses cannot afford to ignore to keep the cybersecurity at its priority.
The best way to secure ourselves is to keep following the emerging security trends. There are over 50 topics that we can discuss under this trend but to be short and brief, we are narrowing it down to the top five;
More cyberattacks on Healthcare and Financial Sector
From a cybersecurity perspective, 2020 will be very crucial and challenging. And, because of the most sensitive data held by the financial sector, it could be one of the major targets for data breaching. Whereas the healthcare industries piling up the soft copy files of patients' data is under constant attacks. For more visit https://www.sprintzeal.com/course/cissp-certification-training
Increase in the rate of Spear-Phishing
Phishing has been with us for over two decades and it continues to be one of the most effective methods under by the attackers even today. However, the security of information and personal assets is considered a crucial subject in organizations, attacking through the old form of phishing is less likely used for getting the work done.
Integration and Automation in the cybersecurity industry
There are high demand and an increasing need for the proactiveness in the professional and developers to maintain and build high levels of cybersecurity among the vicinity of an organization. For the continuity of basic day to day routine of security checks, automation and integration is the key towards the increase in productivity of these professionals, and which enable them to focus more on challenging and advanced tasks. Learn more here https://www.sprintzeal.com/course/cisa-certified-information-system-auditor-certification-training
Increasing risk owing to mobile devices, BYOD and IoT devices
Now a day most of the organizations are permitting bringing their devices to work. Also, offering tools to work on mobiles and encouraging the Bring Your Device (BYOD) culture. And, this intern enables the companies to minimize their costs and maintenance, leading to an increase in the productivity of the employees and flexibility to work remotely i.e. concept of work from home.
But, unfortunately sometimes the advantage itself somewhere leads to credibility, and by the above concept trending the wealth of business data and confidential data is at stake. Organizations will focus on putting in protocols and policies for device vulnerability management and strengthening all the endpoint securities needed.

Increasing cybersecurity spends, growing industry and widening skill gap
As stated in the above point, there is an increase in the awareness of security concerns and challenges facing organizations of all kinds. Thereby leading to an increase in the expense for infrastructure, manpower, hardware, and software tools, intern leading to the several opportunities created.
The security analyst’s profiles will be in great demand in 2020-2021. We have a special blog dedicated solely for the top information security jobs to consider and corresponding necessary certifications that are preferred by the recruiting organizations. Click here for more information https://www.sprintzeal.com

Wrapping on information security trends
We’ve come to the end of our cybersecurity trend predictions for 2020-2021. If you are an entrepreneur, business owner, employed in top management there are several ways to protect yourself from the data breach.
Besides training and educating your employees and yourself in cybersecurity, it has to be your high priority to put things into action and avoid data theft and breaches.

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