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Top cyber risks businesses should prepare for in 2018

2018 is expected to bring fresh business technological advances, which increases the opportunity to exploit devices for malicious purposes.

By Amanda Ciccatelli | Updated on January 11, 2018

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This year’s top six cyber risks for businesses, according to The Chertoff Group principal Adam Isles, include: increase in destructive attacks targeting industrial control systems; expansion of IoT as a threat vector; evolution in nation-state activity tradecraft, advances in identity subversion as a tactic; increased use of software subversion to bypass security controls; and increase in third-party risk.

Every four years, the U.S. intelligence community releases a Global Trends Report, and the one released in January 2017, cited destruction of important civilian infrastructure as an increasingly likely form of emerging warfare.

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