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Looking ahead

Bhaskar Agastya, Country Manager- Ixia, India looks at the key technolgies
and its esclation in 2018

hE CONNECTEd Car ISN’T JUST a Car
aNyMOrE
IHS Markit forecasts that by 2023, worldwide
T sales of connected cars will reach 72.5 million
units, up from 24 million units in 2015. That means, in just
over eight years, almost 69% of passenger vehicles sold
will be exchanging data with external sources turning the
automobile into an advanced network. In 2018, the car will
transition from a mode of transportation to a connected
information hub.
In 2018, the phrase attack surface will be applied to the
vehicle as connected car system attack fears rise. Cata-
strophic attack fears of the entire vehicle being taking over
will evolve to more basic fears of account attacks like tolls
systems, navigation history, and vehicle monitoring system
breaches. Continual performance monitoring and system
validation will take on new meaning in 2018 as auto ven-
dors clamber to address these mounting risks.

IOT rISkS arE hErE TO STay
As the reliance on the IoT grows, so will the strain and ul- Bhaskar Agastya
timately the potential danger associated with hundreds or
even thousands of connected devices having the potential network is everywhere as a result of the push to the cloud.
to be compromised and turned into bots. These growing Using the public cloud takes the data out of your on-
risks, and a general lack of Wi-Fi protection will create a premises data center and puts it into the hands of your pro-
constant stream of vulnerabilities, which are more likely to vider. Breaches and government tampering have brought
be repurposed. the consequences of a carefree approach to personal data
The expansion of the attack surface enables new risks to to light. Years of bad passwords and freehandedness with
your enterprise network. If you’re working remotely and on personal information has guaranteed that we have lost all
an unprotected, public network you put your entire organi- control over our data. Awareness of this problem has finally
zation at risk from hackers whether it’s from your data or reached critical mass. While it is too late to stop our data
unknowingly roping your device to be part of a botnet. from leaving our hands, we can still make sure the ones
who control it (looking at you, Equifax) do more to keep it
daTa PrIvaCy IS ThE NEW TECh EMErGENCy safe. 2018 will be the year that we finally make data privacy
The panic is setting in as today’s data-oriented companies a serious part of our lives.
fear non-compliance with Europe’s upcoming GDPR (Gen-
eral Data Protection Regulation), which will go into effect BIlly IN SalES IS yOUr BIGGEST rISk
on May 25, 2018. With this, the focus on data privacy will When it comes to security, today’s technology tools are not
reach new heights. the issue. Significant advancements in firewalls, web ap-
It is a complex task to protect personal data when the plication security, and network protection solutions have

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