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Expanding Macroeconomic Pressure And Attack Surface

Will Drive Security Automation In 2023

By Leonid Belkind, CTO and Co-Founder, Torq

Security automation continued to have significant, positive impact across myriad cybersecurity
applications in 2022, with enterprises adopting and deploying no-code platforms to significant success.
However, the security automation vendor and customer ecosystem cannot rest on their collective laurels.

In 2023, cyberthreats will relentlessly continue apace with exponentially-increasing complexity and
impact. And this will occur within an adverse macroeconomic climate. Many experts believe we are likely
to experience a 2023 downturn, resulting in static or shrinking budgets, and pressure to do more with
existing resources.

Here are some key challenges and opportunities the security automation community is likely to encounter
as 2023 unfolds:

The Attack Surface Continues Expanding

Despite all the security awareness and training in the world, threat actors and their methods continue
becoming more sophisticated, with novel, insidious new ways of deploying threats, and psychologically
manipulating users. Therefore, the cybersecurity attack surface is likely to get bigger, not smaller.

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