The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has published an executive summary of its ‘Foresight Cybersecurity Threats for 2030’ report.
This ongoing report looks ahead to 2030 and attempts to predict what the top ten cyber threats will be in that year.
Currently ENISA expects the top cyber threats of 2030 to be:
- Supply Chain Compromise of Software Dependencies
- Skill Shortage
- Human Error and Exploited Legacy Systems Within Cyber-Physical Ecosystems
- Exploitation of Unpatched and Out-of-date Systems within the Overwhelmed Cross-sector Tech Ecosystem
- Rise of Digital Surveillance Authoritarianism / Loss of Privacy
- Cross-border ICT Service Providers as a Single Point of Failure
- Advanced Disinformation / Influence Operations (IO) Campaigns
- Rise of Advanced Hybrid Threats
- Abuse of AI
- Physical Impact of Natural/Environmental Disruptions on Critical Digital Infrastructure
