Security News > 2023 > January > Attackers evolve strategies to outmaneuver security teams

Once inside corporate networks, they move swiftly to target and exfiltrate high-value data, including data crucial to the organization, intellectual property, and personal identifiable information or sensitive PII. Structured and unstructured data are at risk.

Attackers targeted structured data used in databases such as Oracle and Microsoft Azure SQL Server and for analytics in web platforms such as Databricks.

Moving into 2023, attackers will target structured data used for analytics over that used in databases.

Thus, it's not surprising that protecting data has emerged as the #1 security priority for 2023, ahead of preventing ransomware, data exfiltration, and extortion, staying ahead of malicious attacks and other objectives.

Data security rose to the top of the priority list for 2023 with over 30% of participants checking that as their most important upcoming project.

This was followed closely by ransomware and extortion defense at over 25%. Security teams should look for a data protection platform that uses encryption-in-use, tokenization, and other techniques that safeguard data throughout its lifecycle while still retaining rich data usability such as search and analytics.

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