Larry David doesn’t want you to say “Happy New Year” after January 3, but he didn’t say anything about us not posting a new year’s list of cybersecurity trends on January 20.

A lot is up in the air with 2023, but one thing’s for sure—cybersecurity will continue to be a high impact sector in our day-to-day life. Nearly every company has some need for tech, and hacks of all kinds are increasing.

Here’s what we’re seeing as the three biggest trends in cybersecurity in 2023.

Zero-trust security. 2023—like recent years—looks like it will be defined by an increase in digitization across the business and social worlds. Nearly every company is now, to some extent or another, a tech company, and with the continuing move toward tech integration comes a rise in cyberattacks. A zero-trust security approach to solving those problems appears to be becoming the norm.

Zero-trust is an approach to cybersecurity that assumes nothing is safe—nothing is left to chance or assumed to be secure, and the system is always being tested for vulnerabilities. Continuous certification and permissions are given to apps rather than a single, one-and-done permission.

As Dan Lohrmann, field CISO at the IT services provider Presidio, told IT Brew last summer, the tactic essentially repeatedly asks: “Who are you? What can you access? What are you authorized to access? What are you accessing? And then monitoring all around that.”

It’s a stringent—and necessary—approach to cybersecurity hygiene in a world of increased threats. We can expect to see it continue to be a matter of course in cybersecurity efforts in 2023.

Read more here.—EH

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A little code can go a long way these days. In fact, according to a recent forecast by Gartner analysts, the worldwide market for low-code development technologies, which allow workers to automate workflows and build apps without programming expertise, will grow by almost 20% in 2023 compared to 2022.

Low-code technology is slated to be worth $26.9 billion this year, with the largest component of the market being low-code application platforms (LCAP)—a market Gartner estimates will grow from just shy of $8 billion in 2022 to almost $10 billion in 2023. Gartner projected the fastest-growing segment on a percentage basis will be citizen automation and development platforms (CADP), technology that enables workflow automation, creation of web-based forms, data visualization, and linking data across SaaS platforms.

Gartner projects that by 2025, 70% of new applications developed at enterprises will use low-code or no-code technologies, up from less than 25% in 2020. It also projects that the percentage of users for these apps who aren’t members of a traditional IT department will grow to 80% by 2026, up from 60% in 2021.

“In an average company, 41% of all employees can be called a ‘business technologist,’ meaning they in their role are creating an app, a digital form, an integration, an automation, a bot, a data model algorithm,” Jason Wong, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, told IT Brew.

Other market segments that Gartner projects will see continued growth include business process automation (BPA), multi-experience development platforms (MDXP), robotic process automation (RPA), and integration platform as a service (iPaaS).

Keep reading here.—TM

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Today’s top IT reads.

Stat: $100,000. That’s how much Twitter’s blue bird statue fetched at auction. (Gizmodo)

Quote: “We would not allow AI to be listed as an author on a paper we published, and use of AI-generated text without proper citation could be considered plagiarism.”—Holden Thorp, EIC of the Science family of journals, on some academics listing ChatGPT as a coauthor on research papers (Nature)

Read: Google is implementing widespread case randomization on its DNS. (The Register)