Responsible for supervising nearly $1Trillion of assets across 30 banks and financial institutions, SAMA plays a crucial role in ensuring economic and financial stability within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The SAMA Cyber Security Framework and Threat Intelligence Principles are mandatory regulations for all member organisations regulated by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) operating within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

From the team at ThreatQuotient, we hope you had a wonderful 2022 and are looking forward to an even better 2023. As we ring in a new year, we thought it would be fun to look into our crystal ball and share some predictions for the coming year.

As more companies move their operations from on-prem to the cloud, they are turning to Sysdig which provides tools to secure containers, Kubernetes, and cloud services. The Sysdig Threat Research Team, which now numbers close to 20 threat research engineers, includes computer security and machine learning experts from around the world.

Every year, millions of people make New Year’s resolutions, both personally and professionally, and we all know how difficult resolutions can be to keep. One of the top workplace resolutions cybersecurity professionals are making this year is to pursue security automation initiatives.

There were so many notable things that have happened in 2022, here’s some to name a few. We have gotten back to a “normal” state of being or have accepted the new “normal”. While ThreatQuotient enjoyed meeting some new faces on the Hangin’ with Haig episodes.

Threat actors continue to work faster and show greater sophistication in their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Meanwhile, organizations struggle to keep pace because they are strapped by the persistent shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals which, exacerbated by the pandemic, grew by 26.2% over the past year.

As threats have continued to evolve, enterprises have made significant investments in security infrastructure and security operations is maturing. C-Suites and Boards are increasingly involved in security decision making and studies show that they are doubling down on security investments, which are expected to grow from $262.4 billion in 2021 to $458.9 billion in 2025.

It is always interesting to learn about real-world examples of technologies at work. So, when ThreatQuotient invited me to share how we at Sysdig are using the ThreatQ Platform to enhance our cloud detection and response solutions, I was happy to participate.

As cyber threats intensify and the human and financial resources available to deal with them remain limited, there is a growing need for automation in cybersecurity. The intelligent automation of key cybersecurity processes can significantly improve an organization’s posture and at the same time support under-pressure employees by reducing reliance on manual processes.