2021 Global Cybersecurity Policy Challenges and Highlights
For many global policymakers, the transformative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need to adopt new cybersecurity and privacy policies. Here’s a look at what we can expect in the year ahead.
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting global economic downturn represent new challenges for government security leaders. Indeed, the massive shift to remote work for both the public and private sectors has forced businesses, governments and other organizations to adapt security practices, processes and policies to account for the significant range of new devices and assets which are now connected to enterprise networks. Both governments and enterprises have seen increases in COVID-19 related phishing and other cyberattacks against employees during the pandemic. Unpatched hardware, software and configuration vulnerabilities in home devices can now be exploited and leveraged to attack enterprise networks.
For many global policymakers, the transformative impact of the pandemic has reinforced the need to adopt new cybersecurity and privacy policies, many of which were under consideration before the pandemic, in order to strengthen trust in the digital economy. These include efforts to promote data privacy and protection, raise baseline security standards of care, and implement cybersecurity certification regimes.
At Tenable, we’ve identified the following global privacy and cybersecurity policy challenges and expected developments that cybersecurity professionals need to monitor in 2021: