The Cyber Future Is Riskier Than You Think
DARKReading, Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
Sound suggestions on how to tackle four "quiet problems" that often slip through the security cracks.
We're good at preparing for risks we've already seen - ransomware, phishing, misconfigurations. But working across enterprise and operational environments, I've learned that some of the most dangerous threats don't announce themselves. They slip past familiar checklists, emerge from overlooked systems, or are dismissed as too speculative to worry about.
This article is not a prediction. It is a reflection on scenarios that have come up in audits, workshops, and modeling discussions about risks that I've tried to understand and explain, even when the technologies felt too early to act on. These are the quiet problems that deserve more attention.