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Blind spots and security basics – letting your guard down could cost you in 2017 Fujitsu Security Operations Centre Threat Predictions Report Contents Introduction Page 3 How accurate were our predictions for 2016? Page 4 Fujitsu’s Top 10 Cyber Security predictions for 2017 Page 5 - 10 2 Introduction » In the world of cyber security, looking back is just as important as looking forward. We need to examine the learnings of the past to prepare ourselves for the threats of the future. As such, this report will look back at our predictions for 2016 and how well they fitted into the actual events, as well as giving our thoughts on what lies ahead in 2017. I hope that this report provides your organisation with not only a handy retrospective, but also a glimpse of what is to come so you can keep your business protected.« Rob Norris Head of Enterprise Cyber Security, EMEIA 3 How accurate were our predictions for 2016? We predicted that there would be an increased We predicted biometrics would be on the rise. number of serious DDoS attacks as a result of the Fujitsu continues to develop some of the world’s continued growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). leading technologies in biometrics and many vendors Some major organisations were impacted during are now looking to enhance their hardware solutions. 2016 by DDoS attacks from an IoT botnet, comprising Whilst Apple has had fingerprint biometrics in its of DVRs and CCTV cameras. The attacks affected iPhone for some time, it finally added biometrics to DynDNS, which disrupted online services to Spotify, its Macbooks in 2016 shortly after NIST announced it Twitter, GitHub and PayPal amongst others in October. wou