The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit outlined the top cybersecurity trends for 2024. These include Generative AI (GenAI), insecure employee behaviour, third-party risks, continuous threat exposure, boardroom communication gaps, and identity-first security approaches. Richard Addiscott of Gartner said that while GenAI presents challenges, it also offers significant opportunities to enhance security operations. The trends for 2024 involve improving cybersecurity resilience and performance. These trends are:
- Generative AI (GenAI): There is hope for GenAI in cybersecurity, promising productivity gains and skill gap reductions through ethical, secure applications.
- Outcome-Driven Metrics (ODMs): These metrics help security teams and boardrooms communicate better. They link cybersecurity investments to protection levels and show a clear, defensible strategy.
- Security behaviour and culture programs are becoming more popular. They aim to change behaviours to reduce risks and improve security control adoption.
- Third-party cybersecurity risk management. These practices focus on resilience over upfront due diligence. They include creating incident playbooks and strategies for managing third-party cybersecurity risks.
- Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM): This approach assesses threats to digital and physical assets. It aligns remediation efforts with real-world threat vectors to reduce breaches.
- Identity and Access Management (IAM): As security focuses on IAM, it becomes more important. It requires better ways to detect and respond to threats.
These trends suggest a shift towards more strategic, behaviour-focused, and resilience-driven cybersecurity practices. For more, read: Gartner Identifies the Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2024
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