Happy that the government has clarified and we can pay the service charge at our will.

For the bad news, cyber attacks will only increase in year 2017. Attackers have shifted their focus to more targeted attacks, which will be difficult to catch using traditional methods. We will need more sophisticated methods to identify such attacks and mitigate them. Context based security is one such method. It helps in identifying breaches and thus protecting users data.

With more and more enterprise application moving to cloud services like Google or Office 365, it becomes important that security devices are able to identify the legitimate use of such applications. Corporates would like to limit access to such applications only for their company use. Firewalls will have to become intelligent to identify such use and prevent data leaks through personal use.

Ensure that you take backups of all your critical data and files. Ransomware will subside, if they realise that their efforts is not bearing them fruits. We too have to play an important role to improve security of our networks and internet as a whole. Wish you once again a very happy and secure new year.