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'The cyber and technology trends keeping chief information security officers (and me) awake at night'

Ciaran Martin, former National Cyber Security Centre boss, is speaking at this week's DTX Manchester tech festival

Ciaran Martin, former CEO of the º£½ÇÊÓÆµâ€™s National Cyber Security Centre(Image: DTX Manchester)

Digital trade show DTX Manchester will be taking over the Manchester Central convention complex on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Here keynote speaker Ciaran Martin previews what he will be telling delegates on Wednesday about cybersecurity

This month, I’ll be hosting a keynote session at DTX Manchester to discuss the top cyber security and technology trends of 2024.

These trends will focus on the traditional cyber security challenges we continue to face, plus the new technology issues which are keeping governments, chief information security officers (CISOs) and industry regulators gripped in heated debates.

From laws around the sale of IP to Chinese technology companies, the governance of the internet, election security, plus the, some might say, over-hype around generative AI, my session will cover ten cyber and technology trends, which will be at the forefront of 2024, and for many years to come.

Given the news around a cyber attack on a contractor of the Ministry of Defence, which exposed the data of thousands of personnel, the session will also be a pertinent time to discuss the evolving status of Beijing within today’s threat landscape.

Earlier this year, the FBI announced its discovery of the Volt Typhoon cyber espionage campaign, where Chinese state-sponsored actors are suspected to have broken into dozens of critical infrastructure organisations to spy on and steal sensitive data. These attacks aren’t surprising. China has been spying on the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ and US since the communist revolution of 1949, but the big issue is around the possibility of disruption. China now has the ability to cause real harm to society. Now that’s deeply concerning.

No evaluation on threat trends would be complete without a nod to cybercrime’s biggest money-spinner, so ransomware will also feature heavily during my session.

Ransomware plagues organisations today and while Russia continues to provide a safe haven for adversaries, we’re going to have to accept that.