This report outlines many of the numerous and varying trends currently impacting the information security industry. It also demonstrates some of the deducible differences between individual sectors with regards to how certain trends are perceived.

 

 

Infosecurity’s primary objective embarking on this research was to highlight the most important factors driving the information security industry in 2020. The unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic list. The crisis has greatly changed the way organizations work and secure their data, exposing businesses and users to vast new challenges, risks and threats. However, if we consider the impact of the pandemic to be an anomaly, it’s clear that the other top trends in this year’s research – the cloud, human factor, artificial intelligence/machine learning and phishing – represent nothing new from previous years, suggesting the industry is still being majorly influenced by recurring factors.

 

Whilst the omission of the topic of compliance from the top five most cited trends is notable, the fact that the human element of security once again proved popular suggests that the sector has yet to breach the human usability.

 

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