2025 Predictions and Trends in Cybersecurity and Technology

The looming threat of weaponized AI will continue to grow. At the same time, organizations will face new angles of attack from insider threats, supply chain risks, and advanced phishing—including attacks that can evade standard MFA.

After years of struggling to secure and connect their operations with traditional firewalls and VPNs, most organizations will prioritize zero trust network access (ZTNA), with growing interest in SASE and identity-driven security.

GenAI-driven tactics, particularly vishing, will boost ransomware success rates, and threat actors will increase their focus on high-impact targets. At the same time, ransoms will grow, and new public disclosure rules will usher in a new era of accountability, making ransomware prevention more critical than ever.

Cloud data security will be a top priority as threat actors launch faster, bigger attacks augmented by AI/ML. New large language model (LLM) capabilities like retrieval augmented generation (RAG) may invite prompt injection attacks, putting sensitive data at risk.

How will phishers get more victims on the hook? Better bait. Expect a year of ever-more advanced vishing, mobile device compromise, and browser-in-the-browser attacks. With the rise of readymade phishing-as-a-service campaigns, even novice anglers will be out to snag a prize catch.

Threat actors will exploit the meteoric rise of AI and inherent trust in key public cloud platforms like OneDrive to scale up stealthier attacks. Patient attackers will start to archive today’s encrypted assets in order to crack them open with post-quantum cryptography in the not-too-distant future.

AI assistants will become standard time-savers for IT teams, enabling them to pivot to strategically improving their users’ digital experiences. KPIs will shift accordingly, moving away from speed and number of tickets closed to emphasize improvements in user experience and productivity.