Ever wonder what the state of cybersecurity in 2031 will look like? While 10 years may seem a long way into the future, the speed at which the industry is evolving is sure to make the next decade fly by. Predicting the future of cybersecurity isn’t about looking into the crystal ball merely for fun. By envisioning how the industry will change in 10 years, chief information officers and chief security officers can prepare for future challenges, so they don’t look back and wish they had acted in 2021.
As much as I enjoy making predictions, to give this story the best chance at getting things right, I interviewed three top cybersecurity experts for their perspectives on the future of cybersecurity.
Tyler Cohen Wood is an author, speaker and former senior intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Roger Grimes is the defense evangelist for KnowBe4 and author of several books about hacking.
Troy Hunt is a cybersecurity speaker and trainer. Founder of the popular ‘Have I Been Pwned’ website, he has also testified before Congress about data breaches.
We talked about the future of the cloud, passwords, artificial intelligence (AI), data breaches and the skills gap. Take a look at their expert insight on what the industry needs to know about the future of cybersecurity in 2031.
Future of Cybersecurity: Cloud Computing
If there’s one aspect of IT that has experienced the most growth in the last 10 years, it’s undoubtedly the use of cloud. In 2031, cloud can only keep blazing forward. Or can it? Depends on who you ask.
According to Hunt, cloud makes it faster, cheaper and easier than ever to put services online and collect huge amounts of data.
“But, faster and easier and cheaper than ever means it’s easier to leave it all exposed,” he said. “We are seeing a lot of them go wrong now. I don’t see any of those factors reducing over the next decade. Mostly because there’s just such a high demand for them. Of course, we want cheap, ubiquitous cloud services; of course, we want to connect our washing machines to the internet, and that’s not going to change.”
Cohen Wood, however, predicts that the future of cloud computing might be short: the cloud might evaporate in 2031.
“I don’t think things will be in the cloud in 10 years; I think things will be back to on-prem,” she said. “There will be more peer-to-peer closed networks. People will figure out how to use blockchain.”
She envisions a peer-to-peer system. In it, each network carries different types of traffic for different types of communication. This is not unlike what the intelligence community uses.
“You’ll have an unsecure network, a secure network and then you’ll have a very secure network,” she added.
However, Cohen Wood said cloud won’t ever go away. “Things will swing [towards on-prem] for a while, but eventually it will swing back to cloud because that’s how it works. History has proven that time and time again.”
The State of Passwords
Ahh, the password. We’ve been discussing its demise for decades. Yet today, we’re amassing them at unprecedented rates.
According to Grimes, …….
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/articles/future-of-cybersecurity-2031/