Security News > 2021 > December > Supply chains, ransomware, zero trust and other security predictions for 2022

As 2021 draws to a close, no one in their right mind thinks that cybersecurity risk is just someone else's problem anymore; major cybersecurity incidents like the SolarWinds breach and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack have raised cybersecurity awareness among public opinions and decision-makers.

Supply chain attackers can take various paths to slip malicious code or components into a trusted piece of software or hardware.

2021 was arguably the year of the supply chain attack and this trend will continue: we might even see lower-scale, less obvious supply chain attacks using the developer environment as a gateway, especially as the former become increasingly complex and interdependent.

Attackers were looking for high potential payouts, and this strategy has proved profitable: the US Treasury said that it has tied $5.2 billion in Bitcoin transactions to ransomware payments.

Why? For three reasons: as mentioned above, as supply chains get more complex, the DevOps pipeline attack surface expands.

The combined rise in advanced attacks, cloud adoption, and remote work had companies realize that they urgently needed to revamp their digital security postures, starting with implementing zero-trust policies.

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