Breach flash – DoD to future projections

Recent: Just 2 weeks into the new year and Dept. of Defense should be worried about a CFB Halifax military hard drive that was breached – said to contain blueprints of navy ships, training materials and military members’ personal information.  A lawyer related to other espionage case made the discovery.  Apparently the concept of least privileges is in question since the hard drive should have never contained that information, according to sources…
By the numbers European data source indicate: in the last 12 months, 90% of large companies and 74% of SMEs experienced a security breach; and large companies spent $2.1MM to $4.5MM resolving breaches which doubles from previous year and SME from $100K-$300K an uptick of $93K-$170K.

Future ITProPortal predictions:

• Out-dated software and infrastructure will pave way for vulnerabilities and create a snowball affect on breaches
• IoT will revolutionize how we do business but that market advantage can/will also result in increased data compromise / cost, and availability in the services we become reliant on
• Leveraging of social media for the upcoming political campaign will open the doors for increased social engineering and purification of content (good and bad, true and not-validated, etc.)
• Top-level domains allow other avenues for organizational opportunities, etc. but so does attack vectors; or perhaps it will be IPv6 – present but quite
• Cybersecurity insurance will be forefront and tested on both sides, from the issuer liability as well as the consumers’ level of protection
• Conjoining of data, whether that be additional PII based on Millennials mindset/industry trend in sharing, mixing of business and personal information in mobile devices, cloud, etc. and the global perception (and government/political ruling) of personal data
• Payment systems as well as currency will be challenged from availability/speed/type (bitcoin); but also avenues for device and data exfiltration 

And for some breaking news: BlackBerry PGP email hacked by Netherlands Forensic Institute which is bad news for a struggle company and touting it’s security is strong and position against backdoors.  Say it isn’t so...