"...Privacy-Enhancing Computation

CIOs in every region face more privacy and noncompliance risks than ever before as global data protection legislation matures. Unlike common data-at-rest security controls, privacy-enhancing computation protects data in use while maintaining secrecy or privacy.

Gartner believes that by 2025, half of large organizations will implement privacy-enhancing computation for processing data in untrusted environments and multiparty data analytics use cases. Organizations should start identifying candidates for privacy-enhancing computation by assessing data processing activities that require transfers of personal data, data monetization, fraud analytics and other use cases for highly sensitive data..."

"...Cybersecurity Mesh
The cybersecurity mesh enables anyone to access any digital asset securely, no matter where the asset or person is located. It decouples policy enforcement from policy decision making via a cloud delivery model and allows identity to become the security perimeter. By 2025, the cybersecurity mesh will support over half of digital access control requests.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the multidecade process of turning the digital enterprise inside out,” said Mr. Burke. “We’ve passed a tipping point — most organizational cyberassets are now outside the traditional physical and logical security perimeters. As anywhere operations continues to evolve, the cybersecurity mesh will become the most practical approach to ensure secure access to, and use of, cloud-located applications and distributed data from uncontrolled devices.” ..."

Study: LGPD likely to require at least 50K DPOs in Brazil alone
https://iapp.org/news/a/study-lgpd-likely-to-require-at-least-50000-dpos-in-brazil-alone/

Reminder

Ransomware gang donates part of ransom demands to charity organizations | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-gang-donates-part-of-ransom-demands-to-charity-organizations/

EU Threat Landscape Report: Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated, targeted and widespread | Shaping Europe’s digital future
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/eu-threat-landscape-report-cyber-attacks-are-becoming-more-sophisticated-targeted-and

Hewlett Foundation Reveals Top Ideas in Cyber Design Competition
https://hewlett.org/newsroom/hewlett-foundation-reveals-top-ideas-in-cyber-design-competition/

Gartner Survey of Nearly 2,000 CIOs Reveals Top Performing Enterprises are Prioritizing Digital Innovation During the Pandemic
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-10-20-gartner-survey-of-nearly-2000-cios-reveals-top-performing-enterprises-are-prioritizing-digital-innovation-during-the-pandemic

"... CIOs are Continuing to Prioritize Cybersecurity Investments
CIOs reported investment shifts toward technologies that support digitalization. With the opening of new attack surfaces due to the shift to remote work, cybersecurity spending continues to increase. 61% of respondents are increasing investment in cyber/information security, followed closely by business intelligence and data analytics (58%) and cloud services and solutions (53%)...."

Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 4% in 2021.

If you security budget is % of IT budget-this forecast worth considering.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-10-20-gartner-says-worldwide-it-spending-to-grow-4-percent-in-2021

Zero Trust Architecture | NCCoE
https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/building-blocks/zero-trust-architecture