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With the cyber security industrial complex in full swing and good business for all the major players, from governments and state sponsored groups, to criminal attackers and the vendors as well as their shareholders, we wonder what horrors this dystopian hell world will spew forth next.

Sectigo, formerly Comodo CA, the digital web security provider, is revamping its channel program to help partners expand into new segments within the cybersecurity market, and leverage additional support, tools and discounts.

Software certificate issues have been blamed for a host of recent enterprise ills, including a widespread outage of Ericsson’s infrastructure that left O2 customers with no network for nearly 24 hours (O2 is rumoured to be seeking £100 million in damages). Sectigo’s Tim Callan on certificate discovery, S/MIME and managing the explosion of certificates.

With the cyber security industrial complex in full swing and good business for all the major players, from governments and state sponsored groups, to criminal attackers and the vendors as well as their shareholders, we wonder what horrors this dystopian hell world will spew forth next.

While cybersecurity is fact-based, it also leverages educated guesses by subject experts extrapolating high-level insider-knowledge, observations, analysis and experience, and that’s exactly what our roundup of predictions for 2019 provide.

According to the Association of British Travel Agents, some 81% of holidays were booked online last year. However, despite saving consumers time and money by making it easy to compare prices, travel websites may be putting travellers at risk of phishing scams.

Last week, mobile operator O2 blamed a similar issue for causing a network blackout which affected the UK. But what is a digital certificate and why do they expire? And will similar administrative errors continue to dog the industry and cause widespread havoc?