The Year of the Defender Five Predictions for 2018

Cybersecurity dominated the news in 2017 and continues to do so in the first quarter of 2018. This is the new normal.

In amongst the doom and gloom however, our analysts found reason to be positive about the future.

According to Fortress and Cybereason’s researchers and analysts 2018’s malware will develop and evolve. Specifically, they identified the following as some of the bigger security trends this year:

• Fileless malware attacks become ubiquitous
• Destructive attacks continue
• The line blurs between APT Actors and Cybercriminals
• Supply chain attacks increase and remain underreported

And this leads to the final prediction for 2018:

• 2018 is The Year of the Defender