Cybersecurity

Rogue intelligence officers to emerge as new cyber threat category, global IT company predicts

In a press release on Tuesday, Unisys suggested that rogue intelligence officers, machine-controlled physical attacks and the rise of quantum computing will demand new approaches such as micro-segmentation and quantum encryption.

“Many of the state-sponsored attacks that have been attributed to governments around the world are actually executed by state employees motivated by their own ideological issues without government authorization,” Unisys noted. “In 2016, Unisys predicts that rogue intelligence officers will emerge as a separate threat category that business and government organizations will need to monitor and control in a different way than they would for a state-sponsored attack.”

Following a year of damaging security incidents at organizations ranging from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to the Ashley Madison website, security experts at Unisys said that “security professionals around the world will adopt a new mindset in 2016, embracing advanced approaches such as micro-segmentation to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks by cyber criminals.