Vectra’s insights focus on changing the future of the regional threat landscape, warning of LLM-powered phishing campaigns, economically motivated threat actors, and the rise of deep fakes.
Vectra AI, Inc., a hybrid attack detection, investigation and response solution provider, announced the release of its annual threat predictions for cybersecurity stakeholders in the United Arab Emirates. Company experts Oliver Tavakoli, CTO, and Christian Borst, CTO EMEA, coauthored the predictions, which examine changes in the threat landscape, expansion in the attack surface, and the changing behaviours of digital estate owners, users, and attackers.
Tavakoli, said, “The threat landscape is one faced by UAE public sector organisations and private sector businesses alike. It transcends scale and spans industries. But while we can never know where and when the next attack will occur, the threat landscape — its actors, methods, and trends, are predictable to an extent. Let 2024 be the year we fight back with our own sophisticated arsenal of cybersecurity tools and methods to protect our clouds, containers, workloads, and data.”
“This will mark a new era of threats that primarily target federated identity systems, public clouds, and business email compromise [BEC]. These new breeds of attack will exploit the vulnerabilities and relative immaturity of security practices related to cloud, identity, and SaaS applications,” Tavakoli added.
Tavakoli also predicted that, as adoption of generative AI continues, attackers will use it in social-engineering campaigns. He believes this will serve as a wake-up call to security leaders that their current defence capabilities are inadequate.
