I have seen the future. And it is broken.
It's been a lousy year on multiple security fronts. And the glum assessment is that things are only getting worse.
Increased hacker sophistication and the rise of crime as a prime hacker motivator, have resulted in a supple and ambitious enemy, ready to shift strategies and techniques as known vulnerabilities are patched, eliminated, or walled-off.
Or as new opportunities arise.
We are on the cusp of an explosion of new technologies into mainstream usage, both in enterprise and consumer spaces. Web services and applications, radio frequency-identification (RFID), ubiquitous wireless access, and smarter, more hackable cell phones are among the technologies likeliest to attract hacker attention. Security vendors and forward-looking security professionals are already preparing for the next wave of threats, the next cyber-battlefields.
With the move to the cloud, CISOs must shift priorities from operating security programs to overseeing (monitoring and auditing) outsourced cybersecurity programs.
2022 was a boon year for IT salaries. 2023 came in like a beast with layoffs, raise freezes, and ChatGPT, but that beast has few teeth.
Age is only a number. Don't let a high number cancel your career.
