The 2010s saw a shift in the cybersecurity industry, as well as much of the rest of the IT landscape, from on-premise to cloud.

This progression was occasioned by innovations in various technologies and in the ways the industry had adapted to a great many changes in the landscape. Unfortunately, it was also mirrored by the evolution of cyberthreats, which had gone a long way from basic and intermittent to complex and persistent.

A testament to this was the high-profile threats that made their marks in the security landscape of the last year of the decade, which were notably diverse in terms of the entities and platforms they affected.