2021 will be remembered as the most disruptive year so far when it came to cyber attacks, with ransomware impacting businesses and governments — including critical infrastructure — as never before. Looking back over past year-end cyber summaries can also teach us a wider story on the cyber industry. "I can easily picture this conversation between a six-year-old girl in the back seat of a car and her father driving her to school last week in North Carolina: 'Daddy, why are the cars all lined-up at the gas station? It wasn’t like this yesterday. What happened?' “'Well honey, it was ransomware.'” So will we see more conversations like this in 2022? Is ransomware going to get even worse? What other hot cyber trends will emerge?
