Here’s your ‘survival’ guide for the 2022 cyberthreat landscape

Here’s your ‘survival’ guide for the 2022 cyberthreat landscape

As we plough onwards through a new year, we should be clear-headed about the challenges ahead. And when it comes to cybersecurity, resolutions alone will not keep us safe. We know that digital transformation is accelerating. According to a survey by solutions company Rimini Street, 72 per cent of GCC-based line-of-business and technology leaders believe digitisation is key to getting ahead in 2022. Most of us now operate in multi-cloud environments with remote work a given standard. This expands the attack surface. In January 2021, a global field survey by SpeedTest on nations’ 5G networks found the UAE’s to be the fastest in the world. This impressive leap presents a slew of possibilities in ICT solutions, including IoT, but this also expands the attack surface. The UAE fought off more than 1.1 million phishing attacks in 2020 and reports on ransomware have indicated that some firms in the country have paid out more than $1m to bad actors and still faced downtime. With no one expecting a let up in cyberattacks in 2022, what businesses need is a cybersecurity survival guide — a roadmap for the recalibration of security postures to meet the challenges posed by today’s threat actors amid