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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 landscape to generate tailored security policies. I also think we will also see generative AI used to continuously monitor a company’s network and systems for policy violations and automatically respond to issues.” Mike Anderson, CIO & CDO
Geopolitics
Potential for Cyber Peace Agreements on the horizon
“Wars have historically played out on land, sea, and air, but the digital domain is fast emerging as the latest battleground. As we approach 2024 – and beyond – major geopolitical confrontations will increasingly involve cyber elements, elevating cybersecurity to a top priority for countries globally. Just as peace treaties are negotiated for conventional wars, 2024 may see proposals for “Cyber Peace Agreements” between nations.” James Christiansen, VP, CSO – Cloud Security Transformation
AI regulations facing scrutiny
“Proposed AI regulations will come under scrutiny in 2024. We are already seeing countries and entire regions proposing new AI regulations to counter and attempt to control new services, but will we see draft regulations proposed and updated that can support innovation alongside ethics and privacy? All eyes are on the U.S, Europe, and China but could other countries steal a march by delayi