ISMG Editors: Reflections on Cybersecurity in 2025

Within the newest weekly replace, ISMG editors mirrored on 2025 – a yr formed by the accelerating use of synthetic intelligence in cyber deception, intensifying geopolitical tensions and a rising shift from prevention to resilience as assaults more and more focused essential infrastructure and exploited human belief.

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The panelists – Anna Delaney, director, productions; Mathew Schwartz, govt editor of DataBreachToday and Europe; Michael Novinson, govt editor, ISMG Enterprise; and Tom Area, senior vp, editorial – mentioned:

• Highlights from an interview with UC Berkeley Professor and GetReal Labs Founder Hany Farid on how AI-driven deepfakes and social engineering now pose an instantaneous enterprise menace, with minimal limitations to entry for attackers fueling rising dangers to belief, verification and human decision-making throughout enterprises;
• Key takeaways from an interview with Silverado Coverage Accelerator Chairman Dmitri Alperovitch on why cyber operations provide insufficient instruments for deterrence, how rising geopolitical tensions are affecting cybersecurity and what ongoing conflicts reveal in regards to the limits of cyber energy in trendy warfare;
• Insights from an interview with former CISA Director Jen Easterly on the shift from cyberespionage to disruptive nation-state threats towards essential infrastructure. She emphasised cyber resilience over prevention and the necessity for secure-by-design expertise to guard resource-constrained organizations.

The ISMG Editors’ Panel runs weekly. Do not miss our earlier installments, together with the Dec. 12 version on how deserted identities are fueling monetary fraud operations and the Dec. 19 version on why KYC not alerts belief.