Throughout 2018, the threat landscape has been a rocky one. Breaches at every turn, new rules and regulations to navigate, and competition tossing businesses and providers about like a boat on a choppy sea.

With 2019 just around the corner, we wanted to share the lowdown from a few experts on the impending challenges and threats we will face so that businesses, providers and partners can batten down the hatches accordingly and better prepare for the new wave of threats.

WatchGuard’s Corey Nachreiner

“Cybercriminals are continuing to reshape the threat landscape as they update their tactics and escalate their attacks against businesses, governments, and even the infrastructure of the internet itself,” says Corey Nachreiner, chief technology officer at WatchGuard Technologies. “But, there is hope for preventing them. Organizations of all sizes need to look ahead at what new threats might be around the corner, prepare for evolving attacks and ensure they’re equipped with layered security defenses to meet them head-on.”

There you have it. Scroll through our slide show for our 2019 cybersecurity predictions, and get to battening.