| | APRIL 20218THE DISRUPTIVE SHIFT OF CYBER THREATSM ichael Jospeh, Director System Engineering, India & SAARC, Fortinet, quoted, "2020 witnessed a dramatic cyber threat landscape from beginning to end. Although the pandemic played a central role, as the year progressed cyber adversaries evolved attacks with increasingly disruptive outcomes. They maximized the expanded digital attack surface beyond the core network, to target remote work or learning, and the digital supply chain. Cybersecurity risk has never been greater as everything is interconnected in a larger digital environment. Integrated and AI-driven platform approaches, powered by actionable threat intelligence, are vital to defend across all edges and to identify and remediate threats organizations face today in real time."2020 was indeed a year of learning for all of us. It surely had a learning for everyone, whether it's the common man or the highly experienced cyber leaders, the year taught all a lesson or two. Fortinet's latest semiannual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report highlights that the threat intelligence from the second half of 2020 demonstrates an unprecedented cyber threat landscape where cyber adversaries maximized the constantly expanding attack surface to scale threat efforts around the world. Adversaries proved to be highly adaptable, creating waves of disruptive and sophisticated attacks. Attackers targeted the abundance of remote workers or learners outside IN FOCUSBy CEO Insights Team
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