The future of cybersecurity, a glimpse into 2025

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    Anders Ihs shares his insights on the future of cybersecurity

    Cybersecurity remains a critical area in an increasingly digitalized world. With 2025 in sight, we are facing both new opportunities and challenges in this rapidly changing field. During the year, several new trends and insights have been discussed at conferences around the world. Our CTO, Anders Ihs, has attended conferences such as Kuppinger Cole EIC and RSAC 2024, sharing his thoughts and giving us an insight into the future of cybersecurity.

    Future threats, what types of cyber threats do you expect to see more of in 2025?

    In 2025, we expect to see a continued increase in deepfakes, created with the help of AI. These fake but convincing videos and images will be a hot topic. In addition, ransomware will continue to make headlines and pose a major threat to both businesses and individuals.

    How do you think advances in AI and machine learning will affect cybersecurity in the future?

    Advances in AI and machine learning will benefit the ‘good side’ more. These technologies will help us detect and prevent security threats faster. Instead of always being one step behind the hackers, we will be able to reduce their lead thanks to the new technologies.

    With the increasing use of IoT devices, what are the biggest security challenges we face?

    IoT devices have exploded in number, creating major challenges for organizations to maintain control over them. It’s important that businesses start looking at this if they haven’t already. Modern Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) products now have good support for IoT and often offer advantageous licensing models.

    How can we better protect our critical infrastructure against cyber attacks?

    To protect critical infrastructure, organizations should think about their cloud strategy. Can the business function even if the cloud goes down? It may be necessary to have some IT systems in on-premises data centers to ensure that business-critical systems work if something happens to the cloud. In addition, the human factor is still the biggest problem. Training, just-in-time access, passwordless solutions and other methods that make it easy to do the right thing are important measures.

    What changes in legislation and regulation do you think will be necessary to improve cybersecurity?

    The EU AI Act, which came in the latter part of 2024, is extremely important. Although AI has been around for over 50 years, its commercial deployment has increased significantly in recent years, making it important to set the rules of the game. More laws and regulations around AI are expected to come, but the AI Act is a good step in the right direction.

    Trends and predictions for 2025?

    A positive trend is that companies are now talking about ‘sustainable technology’. When companies choose technology or products, they also look at how these choices affect the environment and how human rights are addressed. This is an important development that Gartner has also highlighted. Cyber threats are also becoming more sophisticated and complex, with cyber criminals using advanced techniques such as ransomware, phishing and social engineering to infiltrate systems. This means that organizations need to continuously update their security strategies to keep up with these threats.

    Cybersecurity is an ever-changing field that requires continuous adaptation and innovation. By implementing advanced security solutions and training our employees, we can better protect our critical infrastructure and face the threats of the future, concludes Anders Ihs.

    At Arctic Group, we are constantly working to help our customers navigate the digital world, stay safe with us.

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