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With 2024 on the horizon, we have once again reached out to our deep bench of experts here at Netskope to ask them to do their best crystal ball gazing and give us a heads up on the trends and themes that they expect to see emerging in the new year. We’ve broken their predictions out into four categories: AI, Geopolitics, Corporate Governance, and Skills. Here’s what our experts think is in store for 2024:
AI
The rise of AI-enabled threat actors
“The increasing accessibility of AI technologies will unfortunately empower cybercriminals to refine their attack methodologies. Anticipate enhanced utilization of AI for rapid vulnerability exploitation and the automated extraction of valuable information. Adversaries may also leverage generative AI for crafting effective phishing narratives and creating realistic deepfake audio and video, therefore elevating their social engineering capabilities. With the rise of more sophisticated cyber threats, traditional rule-based approaches may become inadequate. We can expect more companies to turn to AI and machine learning algorithms that can enhance threat intelligence, improve phishing prevention, and detect abnormal patterns in real-time.” Yihua Liao, Head of Netskope AI Labs
AI assistants are here to stay
“2024 will be the year of the AI assistant. As demand for AI increases and organizations experiment with new services, it will become common for employees to leverage their own AI assistant either in simplifying existing tasks or supporting and enhancing new methods of working. As a result, both security and privacy will need to be considered by organizations.” Neil Thacker, CISO EMEA
Generative AI for continuous analysis and monitoring
“In the coming year, I think we will see generative AI be used to analyze a company’s existing policies, regulatory requirements, and threat landscap