Huntress Founders Share Cybersecurity Predictions for 2022

Summary

Huntress founders’ tongue-in-cheek 2022 predictions call for clearer security offerings, endpoint-focused protection for remote work, risk-based auto-updates and more mature SMB security operations.

Key points

• The founders called for vendors to simplify security product names, bundles and pricing.
• The article argues that remote work shifts protection beyond office perimeters and makes endpoint-focused security more important.
• It predicts IT teams will enable automatic updates based on risk and reward, but gives no further detail on that point.
• It encourages SMB security teams to align security work with business goals and use metrics such as MTTD, MTTR, MTTC, TCO and RPO.
• It urges technical teams to understand and clearly explain the differences between offerings such as AV, EDR, MDR and XDR.