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“WE CONTINUE TO ATTRACT CUSTOMERS ACROSS ALL MAJOR VERTICALS, INCLUDING HIGHER EDUCATION, RETAIL AND HOSPITALITY, MANUFACTURING AND HEALTHCARE” DEBASISH MUKHERJEE, DIRECTOR, SONICWALL SALES
this year and we are determined to do the same in 2019. We believe that 2019 will gain superior traction amongst Indian businesses. NEED FOR CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY TO GROW FURTHER With minimum operating cost, the cloud has emerged as the most cost-effective option to manage the workloads and processes, says Rajesh Goenka, Director, Sales & Marketing, RP tech India. Consequently, many small and mid-level organizations are shifting on the cloud. Globally, Trend Micro expects to see more breaches to stem from misconfiguration during cloud migration. “India, as a market of bustling cloud migration activities, is at a high risk to this. With the rise of DevSecOps and the use of cloud containers across the world, we also anticipate a growing volume of vulnerabilities to be discovered in the cloud environment,” says Nilesh Jain, Vice President, Southeast Asia and India, Trend Micro.
The Internet of Things is another area which will see greater attacks emerge. “Some attacks which target the IoT are likely to be complex and difficult to defend against,” says Avinash Garg – Director, Channels & Alliances, FireEye, India. Cyber-villains are increasingly targeting IoT devices to deploy cryptomining malware. “IoT (Industry of Things Internet of things) has produced different ways to interact and exchange data which makes it easy for the hackers to take advantage of the situation and gain access to all the information that is being exchanged online. Hence, this has given rise to botnets in the internet world,” says Zakir Hussain Director, BD Soft, Country Partner – Bitdefender. There are other major upcoming technologies that will change the threat landscape drastically. One such example is artificial intelligence, which has been a buzzword for a while. Imagine artificial intelligence being used to not only probe, but to specifically tailor attacks against organizations and other targets. “We’re already seeing some of
“IT’S BECOMING EVIDENTLY CLEAR THAT FOCUS ON PREVENTION IS BECOMING IMPOSSIBLE AND EQUAL IMPORTANCE IS ALSO REQUIRED IN QUICK DETECTION TOOLS TO MINIMIZE DAMAGE POST BREACH” KRISHNA RAJ SHARMA, DIRECTOR & CEO AT IVALUE INFOSOLUTIONS
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“CYBERSECURITY IS BECOMING A STRATEGIC PART FOR EVERY VERTICAL TODAY” SANDIP KUMAR PANDA, CEO & CO-FOUNDER, INSTASAFE.
this with deep fakes, the ability to copy the voice and mannerisms of a person to create something that looks and sounds as though the real person said it,” says Avinash Garg. VERTICALS LIKELY TO INVEST MORE IN 2019 Cybersecurity is becoming a strategic part for every vertical today, says Sandip Kumar Panda, CEO and Co-Founder, Instasafe. In fact, cybersecurity is becoming the cornerstone of innovative and well organized IT infrastructures of every vertical in the market be it BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail, Education, Healthcare and others. “The MSME sector will be a prime growth driver in 2019. Other market verticals that will be aggressively investing in cybersecurity will be the BFSI sector, manufacturing sector, and IT firms alongside others,” says F-Secure. Ransomware is a real concern, due to which PC users need to improve their data security. Many incidents of ransomware attacks are reported quite frequently across the globe. “However a lot of people adopt a careless attitude and forget to update their OS and software due to which devices become vulnerable to ransomware attacks,” says BD Soft. “This is a real risk as cyber criminals always try to find the gap to launch an