PodChats for FutureCIO: Cybersecurity threat landscape 2020 vs 2021

Depending on who you talk to, ransomware seemed to be the popular topic of discussion among security vendors. Emsisoft estimates that ransomware attackers collectively took in USD25 billion in 2019. A Barracuda Networks report in 2020 indicated that 51% of organisations in Asia-Pacific have already had at least one data breach or cybersecurity incident since shifting to a remote working model.Chester Wisniewski, a principal research scientist from Sophos, offers his take on the overall cybersecurity landscape in Asia-Pacific in 2020 and what it would look like in 2021.