The WEF experts warned about the impending cyber pandemic and called for new approaches to risk management associated with the development of next generation technologies.
By 2025, next-generation technologies such as ubiquitous connectivity, artificial intelligence, quantum computing or new approaches to identity and access management could overwhelm the defences and lead to a global cyber pandemic, experts at the World Economic Forum’s Cybersecurity Centre predict.
The World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity has created a community of security and technology leaders to identify future global risks from next-generation technology in order to avert a cyber pandemic.
In this regard, the WEF, together with the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, launched an initiative called Future Series: Cybercrime 2025, the main goal of which is to identify the approaches required to manage cyber risks associated with major technology trends.
More than 150 global cybersecurity experts from information security companies, research institutions and other organizations, including Palo Alto Networks, Mastercard, KPMG, Europol, ENISA and NIST, are involved in the program.
There is already a global capacity gap in cybersecurity (professionals and all personnel), and as new technologies emerge, the cybersecurity skills gap will widen.
Among the recommended approaches, the WEF lists reducing the global capacity gap in cybersecurity, creating a workforce, and moving away from fragmented approaches to cybersecurity that lead to interdependencies and confusion of policies and technologies.
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