Lawrence Potts
While developments in artificial intelligence may get all the headlines at the moment, it is just one more complication for the ever-evolving cybersecurity field. The Gartner top cybersecurity trends and strategies for 2024 reflect the wide variety of pressures cybersecurity professionals face, including the emergence of generative AI (GenAI) as a mainstream capability, the challenge of managing security risks in a constantly changing threat environment, and the growth of the attack surface as decentralization of digital capabilities spreads across organizations.
Another complication: the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has opened its cyber incident reporting portal, in advance of mandatory reporting requirements for entities in all 16 national critical infrastructure sectors, including the defense industrial base, emergency services, and government services and facilities, to name a few.