When was the last “easy” year for enterprise security teams? Certainly not last year, this decade or even this century. Every year in recent memory has seen its share of noteworthy and novel cyberattacks.
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict 2025 will be more of the same. If anything, the pace and scale at which threats and challenges compound will only expand the threat landscape further and overwhelm current enterprise defenses more quickly than ever. Cybercriminals aren’t going to let up, and neither should enterprise security teams’ efforts to protect networks, systems, applications and data.
Cyberthreats aren’t the only security challenge for 2025, however. Newly adopted technologies bring their own vulnerabilities to address, and perennial issues make “top challenges” lists year after year.
Here’s a look at the top seven trends and challenges security teams and organizations need to be aware of in the coming year.
1. AI- and generative AI-enabled attacks
If 2023 was the year generative AI came to the fore, 2024 was the year of GenAI adoption.
AI experienced a banner year in 2023 with the introduction of GenAI platforms, and by the June 2024 release of a…
