As I do each year, I recently got together with a number of my very talented colleagues at Quest to think about key trends and lay out our IT predictions for the coming year. Since we specialize in Active Directory and cyber resilience, we were particularly interested in uncovering and exploring the latest trends related to those areas.

In 2022, phishing scams continued to hook into consumers and enterprise accounts. In fact, recent research from EMA revealed that 87% of surveyed businesses indicate that their organization experienced an identity-related security breach in the preceding 12 months. Many successes of the sophisticated phishing scams were due to legacy MFA implementations such as SMS, mobile auth, and OTP which aren’t phishing-resistant or equipped to stop these types of attacks.