4 Key Cybersecurity Predictions For 2025 - And What To Do About Them
ITPoToday, Friday, February 14th, 2025
With cyber breaches reaching record highs in 2024, businesses face increasingly sophisticated threats in 2025 - emphasizing the need for proactive cybersecurity strategies.
2024 saw a record-high number of breaches - more than 10,000 across 94 countries, in fact. As well as increasing in volume, cyber breaches also increased in severity, with threats more sophisticated than ever. Of those 10,000 breaches, 62% of financially motivated incidents involved ransomware or extortion, with a median loss of $46,000 per breach - a potentially devastating figure for a small or midsized business.
These statistics remind us that companies are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Whether large or small, all businesses are at risk, but especially those that rely on outdated reactive approaches, a point that brings us to our first of a series of cybersecurity predictions as 2025 kicks off:...