Trends to watch when creating security strategy for the next two years

A dozen trends to watch in next two years to manage cyber risk were highlighted at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. It’s nice to see these two came high on the agenda:

By 2025, 80% of enterprises will adopt a strategy to unify web, cloud services and private application access from a single vendor’s Security Service Edge (SSE) platform. With a hybrid workforce and data everywhere accessible by everything, vendors are offering an integrated (SSE) solution to deliver consistent and simple web, private access and SaaS application security. Single-vendor solutions provide significant operational efficiency and security effectiveness compared with best-of-breed solutions

60% of organizations will embrace Zero Trust as a starting point for security by 2025. More than half will fail to realize the benefits. The term zero trust is now prevalent in security vendor marketing and in security guidance from governments. As a mindset — replacing implicit trust with identity- and context-based risk appropriate trust — it is extremely powerful.

Read more on all the trends to watch at Help Net Security.