Proliferating number of cyberattacks has been quite threatening for organizations as well as common people. This calls for tighter security. Citing the threats, organizations have taken of various safety measures, but, data is still prone to attacks. And the cyber threats are gradually rising and turning to be major threats to the organizations. According to sources, India stands second in cyber attack since 2016. Additionally, the country has witnessed about 22 percent of rise in the cyberattack on IoT deployments. Furthermore, according to CISCO's Annual Cyber Security Report, in 2018, the organizations had suffered nearly $500K of financial loss due to 53 percent of cyber attacks. 

To counter-attack these challenges the organizations are opting for a few emerging technologies namely, AI, blockchain, big data, and cloud. Let us check out a few such technologies aiding organizations in cybersecurity. 

Cloud

Cloud provides superior security for data, infrastructure and applications and this has influenced the organizations to consider the cloud for storage purpose. The regular data storage has been quite threatening and considering the lack of security for thedata stored on-premises, the organizations choose to store the data in the cloud, and that would be managed by the companies specialized in cloud infrastructure and security. This mode of storage would not only ensure data safety but also provides insight of the customers.

Artificial Intelligence

AI is an ideal solution for cybersecurity. It automates the defense against cyberattacks. AI’s extensive efficiency towards threat detection, alerting, and providing measures to overcome the cyber attacks has made it the future of cybersecurity. Machine learning aids in recognizing patterns in data and anticipates future effects based on the past information obtained. Besides, the speedy threat detection of AI makes it more prominent. It can swiftly assess massive data generated on a network to spot malicious data.

Blockchain

The tamperproof digital ledger enables decentralized data storage in the blockchain. This distributed data storage reduces single point cyberattacks; that is, to steal the data stored in blockchain, the hacker has to crack every node in the chain, which is not an easy task. Moreover, with each block’s addition, the chain structure grows stronger, as the block consists of cryptographic reference of the previous block which could be altered with network node permission, making the blockchain anti-tampering and best suited for data storage.  

Leveraging these technologies along with the ground rules for cybersecurity, would drastically reduce the cyberattacks. Alongside, the organizations should restrict the data and other crucial credential access to authorized persons alone; this would eventually bring down the cyber threats.