SANS Top 5: Cyber Has Busted Out of the SOC
DARKReading, Thursday, May 1st, 2025
This year's top cyber challenges include cloud authorization sprawl, ICS cyberattacks and ransomware, a lack of cloud logging, and regulatory constraints keeping defenders from fully utilizing AI's capabilities.
Each year, top SANS faculty joins the RSAC conference to present what their community of practitioners and researchers see as the most pressing challenges facing the cybersecurity community for the year to come. This year's list of top-five threats aren't merely technical, and tackling them will demand coordinated leadership from the very top of the organization and beyond.
"The attack techniques outlined in the SANS RSAC 2025 keynote underscore a common theme: Cybersecurity is no longer confined to the security operations center - it's a leadership issue that impacts every layer of the enterprise," according to a SANS media statement. "The threats of tomorrow demand a strategic, integrated response rooted in visibility, agility, and cross-functional alignment."