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Trends To Ensure Cybersecurity In 2022

By Héctor Guillermo Martínez, President of GM Sectec

With the arrival of the pandemic almost 2 years ago, it became clear that companies are increasingly
vulnerable to attacks by hackers and cybercriminals. In this period, in particular, these incidents have
occurred in large part due to the fact that most companies have had to work with their workforce from
home, which has opened up a huge gap that cybercriminals have been able to exploit. Below, we share
some reflections that assess critical trends that CISOs (Chief Information Security Officer) must take into
account during this 2022.

Ransomware or data hijacking is not going away anytime soon. Thanks to the particularity of working
from home or home office, this attack modality has become standard and has increased considerably
throughout 2021 due to the fact that workers do not have the necessary protection of their equipment to
avoid any kind of vulnerability of their data. The 2021 figures seem to ensure that in 2022 this type of
cyber threat will continue.

In 2021, almost 500 million cyber-attacks of this type have been recorded, which is equivalent to an
increase of 148 percent compared to 2020, according to a SonicWall report presented at a conference
held at the White House. The most affected segment, and one that will surely continue to be targeted by
cybercriminals, will be the banking sector.

Log4j will be the most serious cybersecurity flaw in decades. The flaw is present in a popular software
called Log4j, which is part of the ubiquitous Java programming language. Log4j is used by millions of
websites and applications, and the software flaw potentially allows hackers to take control of systems by
writing a simple line of code. This bug is more serious than other cybersecurity flaws because of its

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