Surendra Singh, Sr Director and Country Manager, Forcepoint, SAARC

“In 2020, organisations will turn their attention away from threat-centric to human-centric security focusing on two of its most important assets critical data and people. To this end, we see a marked increase in number of organisations enhancing their Indicator of Compromise (IoC) -based threat intelligence with the contextual insights of behavioral indicators. Additionally, expect a more mature approach by organisations to data/privacy protection legislation. Businesses are recognizing that maintaining an individual’s (customer’s) privacy and protecting their data can be a differentiator of a business’s service. This will invoke a move from a breach prevention approach to a more holistic principles-based approach. Lastly, more and more organizations, even government agencies, are moving to the Cloud as part of their digital transformation. Attackers will have a renewed focus on Public Cloud accessible systems and data in 2020 and beyond due to the richness of the prize and ease of accessing it. We expect to see more breaches both from external and internal parties as Cloud applications become more ubiquitous.”