FEATURE: CYBERSECURITY
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Intelligent CIO speaks to
technology experts about
their IT trend predictions
for the upcoming year
and how to prepare for
potential hurdles.
MCAFEE
Steve Grobman, Chief Technology
Officer, McAfee, LLC
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cAfee has released its McAfee Labs
2018 Threats Predictions Report, which
identifies five key trends to watch in 2018.
This year’s report focuses on the evolution
of ransomware from traditional to new
applications, the cybersecurity implications
of serverless apps, the consumer privacy
implications of corporations monitoring
consumers in their own homes, long-term
implications of corporations gathering
children’s user-generated content, and the
emergence of a machine learning innovation
race between defenders and adversaries.
“The evolution of ransomware in 2017
should remind us of how aggressively
a threat can reinvent itself as attackers
dramatically innovate and adjust to the
successful efforts of defenders,” said Steve
Grobman, Chief Technology Officer for
McAfee, LLC. “We must recognise that
although technologies such as machine
learning, deep learning, and artificial
intelligence will be cornerstones of
tomorrow’s cyber defences, our adversaries
are working just as furiously to implement
and innovate around them. As is so often
the case in cybersecurity, human intelligence
amplified by technology will be the winning
factor in the ‘arms race’ between attackers
and defenders.”
The report reflects the informed opinions
of dozens of McAfee thought leaders from
McAfee Labs, McAfee Advanced Threat
Research, and members of McAfee’s Office
of the CTO. It examines current trends in
cybercrime and IT evolution and anticipates
what the future may hold for organisations
working to take advantage of new
technologies to both advance their businesses
and provide better security protection.
An adversarial machine learning
‘arms race’ will develop between
defenders and attackers
Machine learning can process massive
quantities of data and perform operations
at great scale to detect and correct known
Companies predict
IT trends for 2018
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