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Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Tesserent | Cyber Security Executive | Company Director, Vestinex Pty Ltd | Risk Management & Strategy | Fraud and Corruption Risk | Licensed Investigator (NSW) | JP (NSW)
Towards the end of each year Tesserent | Cyber Solutions by Thales encourages staff to consider what lies ahead for Cyber Security in the impending new year. Recently I put together a series of predictions for 2025 which included the following: 1. Rise of social engineering - powered by AI AI is providing cyber-criminals with the tools to quickly and convincingly craft phishing emails. Social engineering will be a key attack vector consumers and businesses need to watch out for in 2025. The return to people-based attacks, rather than technology driven cyber-attacks will feature in 2025 according to Tesserent’s experts. 2. More cyber-attacks fueled by AI The rapid speed that cyber-criminals are deploying AI, means they can execute more attacks with greater velocity and precision. Tesserent warns this trend will continue to accelerate in 2025. The number of AI-based tools for cyber criminals will increase in 2025 and drop in price on the dark web, further democratising the use of this technology by threat actors and removing the need for cyber-attackers to have strong technical skills that until now have remained a barrier. 3. The good guys will use AI to fight back Tesserent predicts that AI will continue to advance as a core element of data analysis, threat monitoring and orchestrated and automated response as part of an organisation's security program throughout 2025. Enabling the good guys to leverage AI to help them protect, defend and fight back in an escalating threat environment. 4. More attacks will be leveraged against Australian critical infrastructure Tesserent expects there will be increasing attacks that threaten Australian critical infrastructure and utilities in 2025 with these attacks supported by AI. We are likely to see AI drive scripting and coding making the attacks easier to perform for cyber-criminals as they attempt to target known critical infrastructure vulnerabilities in new ways. 5. Public and private sector will continue to struggle to hold onto cyber security talent Maintaining the trend of the past couple years, Tesserent expects that Australian businesses and governments will continue to find it difficult to retain cyber security talent in an increasingly competitive environment. More government departments and private sector enterprises will continue/look to outsource as a result. These have been picked up by numerous Cyber News sources for which I am grateful as it helps us continue to deliver the Cyber Message to industry. Thanks to those journalists that saw benefit in the helping us deliver the messages through their articles it is sincerely appreciated. https://lnkd.in/gW_tJAiT