Cybersecurity Trends In 2024: 5 Key Areas To Follow
Fortra, Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
As we are well into 2024 now, we at Fortra want to continue our commitment to empowering you all with the knowledge and tools needed to protect you, your organization, and even your family.
This year, we will be looking more and more at the human element, and provide you with methods to practice repeatable, real-world techniques to ingrain positive habits and security behaviors to keep you as safe as possible.
Society's Pendulum
Like any industry, cybersecurity is influenced by the latest gravitational pull of society. While there are many positive developments, cybercriminals are often inspired to use these popular shifts to advance their ability to launch successful social engineering attacks. Earlier trends included robocalls and Zelle scams. More recently, the increased use of WhatsApp as a global communication tool has given rise to WhatsApp scams.