2017 Predictions

2017 Predictions

Infosec Predictions for 2017:
1. We will continue to fail to do the basics.
2. We will continue to worry about 0-days.
3. We will continue to make dumb privacy/security tradeoffs for convenience.
4. We will continue to gripe about ignorant end users and managers.
5. We will continue to fight amongst ourselves.
6. We will continue to eat our young.
7. Attackers will continue to get better at automation.
8. Defenders will likely not get better at automation.

Corollaries
1. Botnets and Ransomware will continue to grow. (#1, #7, and #8)
2. Macro malware will continue to grow. (#3 and #7)
3. There will be at least one large breach with 10s of GBs of data exfiltrated. (#1, #3, and #8)
4. There will be at least one password breach where passwords are plaintext or simply hashed. (#4)
5. A number of people will give up on the infosec community all together. (#4 and #5)
6. A number of really talented people will never get a start in infosec. (#6)