Security News > 2020 > December > Key cybersecurity problems expected to mark 2021

Jake Moore, ESET Security Specialist, commented, "We have all learned that working remotely can benefit organizations; however, I don't think that we will continue to work remotely five days a week. More employees around the world will naturally and effortlessly migrate to what works for them and their businesses. As more and more of our working and home lives become digitized, cybersecurity will remain the lynchpin of business safety. Cyberattacks are a persistent threat to organizations, and businesses must build resilient teams and IT systems to avoid the financial and reputational consequences of such an attack."

"Tony Anscombe, Chief Security Evangelist, ESET, commented,"Companies are becoming smarter, deploying technologies that thwart attacks and creating resilient backup and restore processes, so the bad actors need a 'Plan B' to be able to monetize their effort and build resilience into the attack, rather than being reliant on a single form of threat.

The security community began to talk about fileless malware attacks, which piggyback on the operating system's own tools and processes and leverage them for malicious purposes.

"Fileless threats have been evolving rapidly, and it is expected that in 2021 these methods will be used in increasingly complex and larger-scale attacks. This situation highlights the need for security teams to develop processes leveraging tools and technologies that not only prevent malicious code from compromising computer systems, but that also have detection and response capabilities - even before these attacks fulfill their mission, said Camilo Gutiérrez Amaya, Senior Security Researcher, ESET.".

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