Pushing Forward: Key Takeaways From Trend Micro’s Security Predictions for 2022

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Pushing Forward Key Takeaways From Trend Micros
Security Predictions for 2022 In 2022 as
enterprises battle targeted attacks, malicious
actors with improved tools of the trade will
target smaller businesses with commoditized tools
of the trade. Additionally, cybercriminals will
aim to fill their black markets with the
ever-growing data volume from connected cars. In
the upcoming year, digital transformations will
be a top priority, malicious actors might launch
ever-evolving attacks organisations have to buck
up their defenses with trend micro maximum
security practices and solutions.

• As companies evolve their supply chain
  operations, global supply chains will be
  targeted by fourfold extortion techniques
• Companies will make their supply chains more
  resilient in the upcoming year by investing in
  their supply chain development processes and
  diversification strategies. However, malicious
  actors will try to take advantage by launching
  target attacks
• Companies can apply the zero-trust approach to
  protect their supply chains, in
• which they can exchange data and can interact the
  way they want through continuous verifications.
• In order to protect their environments against a
  variety of threats, companies will
• employ cloud security basics to achieve a managed
  level of risk.
• The malicious actors will keep themselves updated
  by using new technology with tried and true
  attacks and carry out attacks through them.

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• For cybercriminals, they are always aware of the
  strategies that would continue to work. They use
  low effort but impactful tactics to get access to
  cloud applications and services and steal email
  credentials. exploiting known vulnerabilities,
  and abusing unrotated access keys, not secure
  container images, and unsecured secrets.
• Businesses need to know the basics of cloud
  security if they want to keep their cloud
  environments safe. Implementing a shared
  responsibility model, using a well- architected
  framework, encrypting, patching, and bringing in
  the right level of expertise are a few things
  they should do. Having tighter security protocols
  in place for building systems can also benefit
  them.
• To ensure that they are protected against the
  threat the companies will set their sights on
  protecting servers application control policies
  and stringent server- hardening. The companies
  can also opt for activate trend micro.
• Servers will be the main ransomware playground
• There are chances of having two ransomware
  threats. The ransomware attacks will be more
  targeted and highly prominent. The tactics
  however will be the same they will be used to
  compromise difficult targets which might be even
  bigger than previous ones. Modern ransomware is
  a new development, it is highly possible that
  most enterprises have not made the exact same
  mitigation as they made for endpoints.
• Secondly, we foresee modern and sophisticated
  methods of extortion becoming more prevalent in
  the ransomware landscape. The attackers will be
  able to use the data extorted from their victims
  in the same way as in nation-state advanced
  persistent threats (APTs) so they can simply skip
  the encryption process entirely. Using this
  method, the focus shifts from denying access to
  critical data to leaking and mining stolen
  information for abuse and compromise. We also
  anticipate that as more companies migrate to the
  cloud the cloud will be an even more lucrative
  target for cybercriminals.
• We have been observing a lot of security
  incidents this year, so these ransomware
  predictions from trend micro activation are based
  on those. Businesses should follow
  server-hardening guidelines for all relevant
  applications and operating systems as a means to
  protect their servers against a wide range of
  ransomware attacks.