Conclusion

Time is not on the side of the defender in cyberspace. Threat actors are not limited by laws or compliance requirements; they have no bounds on the ways in which they might operate and innovate to beat the good guys. For them, everything and everyone is a potential asset for exploitation. The longer that enterprises and governments wait to update their defenses and embrace new optimal infrastructures and tactics to combat these coming threats, the worse things will get. Adversaries at both the nation state level and in cyber-criminal groups are just as innovative, in some cases more so, than defenders. Each new device, user, account, or technology that is offered to the market becomes an additional weapon that can be used for malicious purposes.

In the next chapter, we'll focus upon one of the emerging trends that we mentioned in this chapter. We'll take a look at the potential for threat actors to utilize social media in order to influence opinion in order...