SYSTEMATIC FORESIGHT ON

CYBER SECURITY

EXCLUSIVE ADD-ON CONTENT PACKAGE IN COLLABORATION WITH

 
 

FROM FRIGHTENED REACTIONS TO PROACTIVE PREPAREDNESS

Pull in the commander’s hat and form a solid understanding of where the cyber world is headed in the forthcoming decades. Ensure you maintain a balanced understanding of all potential threats and disruptions, and also make sure your organisation is well prepared in advance.

With this add-on content package created by Cyberwatch Finland, a leading cyber security think tank worldwide, you get:

Exclusive content. Access to a continuously updating database of cyber security related descriptions of future trends and phenomena, from key digital and cyber developments, through new technology, to potential threats and other important themes to keep tuned in.

Foresight radars on cyber security. Three exclusive, cyber security specific foresight radars created and maintained by Futures Platform’s futurist team and Cyberwatch Finland’s experts.

Actionable expert insights. Easy-to-digest, practical insights on the possible future directions of cyber threats and security, and the business opportunities and risks they represent.

 

WHAT COULD THIS PACKAGE DO FOR YOUR FUTURE?

  • Move from reactive to proactive

    The top-priority phenomena and trends in the cyber world evolve very rapidly. To stay on top of key developments and to be able to build proactive resilience, it is critical to set up systematic foresight on the cyber security landscape.

  • Ground your decisions in expert knowledge

    Our add-on content package is not only building on the analysis of our in-house team of professional futurists but also draws from the expertise of the world’s leading cyber experts at Cyberwatch Finland.

  • Prepare for the next decades of cyber threats

    Actors in cybercrime are ultra-fast in adopting new technologies and approaches, and deliberately build on vulnerabilities and surprise. Everything is interconnected, and thus requires a comprehensive and long-term assessment.

 

EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS PACKAGE

This exclusive content package covers in-depth analysis and descriptions of key future phenomena in cyber security, available nowhere else. All content included in this add-on package is produced in collaboration with Futures Platform’s futurists and Cyberwatch Finland’s leading industry experts.

We are always on the lookout for the latest changes across the industry, and we keep adding new trend descriptions as we spot them. Below is a selection of some of the trends available in the package.

  • Cyber Espionage

  • Cyber Sabotage

  • Cyberwarfare

  • Deep and Dark Web

  • Information Influencing

  • EU Cyber Regulation

  • Hybrid Influencing

  • One Time Pad

  • Operational Technology

  • Splinternet

The add-on package currently holds more than exclusive 30 analyses of future cyber phenomena. These are complemented by another 20+ cyber related analyses by Futures Platform’s futurists that are part of our standard content and available via any subscripition. Contact us to receive a complete, up-to-date list of trend and phenomenon descriptions included in this package.

Want to take a sneak preview? Download our free-of-charge Cyber Security highlight report featuring summaries of three select phenomena.

THREE EXCLUSIVE FORESIGHT RADARS

As with all Futures Platform content, we’ve created a radar view – actually three of them – covering the exclusive trend descriptions in this package, and also linking them to other relevant phenomena readily available on the platform. These radar templates give you and your team an excellent starting point in understanding future disruptors in cyber security.

 
 

Radar #1 - Cyber warfare

Cyber warfare is a major part of modern warfare and cyber capabilities have widely increased. It targets not only the armed forces of states but also political decision-making, critical infrastructure, and economic life.

Sectors:

  • Cyberwarfare increasingly affects international politics in the form of various strategic cyber partnerships as well as the polarization of states.

  • Cyber warfare has a major role in destabilizing or increasing the world economy. Cyber warfare could therefore become one of the means of global exchange.

  • Traditional warfare is accompanied by cyber operations, and often before the kinetic war, the opponent is sought to be influenced by cyber operations targeting critical infrastructure.

  • The cyber environment enables a wide variety of automated forms of warfare. Advanced technology will play an increasingly central role in the impact and outcome of warfare.

Radar #2 - Smart cybercrime

Cybercrimes have evolved to become more sophisticated and smarter. Advanced technologies and platforms have increased the efficiency and agility of crimes and also made prevention more challenging.

Sectors:

  • The cyber environment enables the development of various traditional crimes in the online environment and they are becoming more harmful to society and individuals.

  • More often crimes are driven by political or ideological goals and this will increase in the future. The cyber environment is a good enabler to pursue ideological goals.

  • With smart technology, it will be possible to obtain higher returns for criminals through low-cost crimes. Traditional financial crimes are more feasible because of advanced technology.

  • Technology is increasingly present in everyday life, and the more activities are technology-mediated, the more it allows new types of crime to arise.

Radar #3 - Key economic impacts

Cyber operations have enormous economic impacts at the individual level, societal level, and globally. The development of the cyber environment has also contributed to the growing interdependence in society.

Sectors:

  • Cyber operations affect the development of criminality from an economic perspective: Cyber operations will be even more economically productive for criminals in the future.

  • Cyber operations have impacts on political decision-making. Cyber operations against states will increase in the near future, as will their economic impact on states.tion text goes here

  • Cyber operations allow for more low-cost forms of warfare, but on the other hand, they will require large technological investments to work effectively.

  • Cyber operations have both societal implications and implications for individual citizens. These will be reflected in people’s everyday life for example how they handle money.

  • Cyber operations are technologically productive businesses and have a major impact on world economics.

  • Cyber operations affect regulations and various international agreements, either by enabling better economic partnerships or by hindering international cooperation.

 

WHAT YOU GET

ADD-ON CONTENT PACKAGE ON CYBER SECURITY

As a timely and critical addition to your existing Futures Platform subscription, with this add-on content package, you get:

✓ Three additional and exclusive, cyber security specific foresight radars on top of your pre-existing 40+ radar templates available with your FP subscription

✓ An exclusive and continuously expanding collection of cyber security related descriptions of future trends and phenomena created by Cyberwatch Finland’s experts (currently 30+)

✓ One hour of free consultation with Cyberwatch Finland experts

✓ Weekly and monthly cyber security updates from the experts delivered straight into your inbox

Naturally, we are also happy to offer additional consulting services by both Cyberwatch Finland and Futures Platform, together representing the world's leading expertise in both cyber security and foresight analysis and development.

In today's rapidly evolving cyber world, the question of who controls it, is perhaps the greatest of our time

At the heart of our digital operating environment are everyday services and technologies that have become the basic elements of our lives.

Organisations are increasingly interconnected and dependent on shared digital infrastructures. Therefore, both our perceptions of the future as well as cyber-awareness should be on a reliable foundation.

This enables the best possible premises for strategic decision-making.

– Aapo Cederberg, CEO and Founder, Cyberwatch Finland

ABOUT CYBERWATCH FINLAND

Cyberwatch Finland provides unique cyber strategic intelligence capabilities and strategic-level international expertise and understanding of the cyber world. Cyberwatch Finland leverages its capabilities with proprietary technology developed in cooperation with leading academic organizations using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence based analysis methods.

Cyberwatch Finland experts interpret and present complex cyber world phenomena and developments into an easy-to-understand format, utilizing the latest technology, easily adaptable methods, and various media formats. We increase the resilience of any organization and helps prevent costly cyber disasters.

Cyberwatch Finland helps its customers to anticipate the risks and to manage the process of cyber security in a coherent and consistent way. At the same time, we are building a safer and more sustainable world together.

To learn more about Cyberwatch Finland, please visit cyberwatchfinland.fi

ABOUT FUTURES PLATFORM

Futures Platform is the industry standard source for future trends, scenarios and long term change. It’s a full-functionality visual and collaborative toolbox for foresight and management teams, ensuring
 your organisation’s strategy and key decisions are future proof.

The solution brings together an AI-powered digital platform and the expertise of professional futurists. At its core, the platform features more than 900 analyses of future phenomena – from technological and environmental to societal change, with a focus on the long term. These compact, easy-to-digest scenario descriptions are combined with auto-crawled additional information from validated sources.

Our visually engaging, collaborative foresight radars map interconnections between phenomena and allow teams to understand alternative futures and co-shape future-proof strategies together. On top of this, our team of professional futurists and foresight consultants are there to help and guide you on any related matter, from custom scenario analyses and horizon scans to building your organisations' foresight capability onto the next level.