The Year in Review 2025: AI, APIs, and a Whole Lot of Audacity
Akamai Technologies, December 11,2025
Remember that wild heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris in October 2025? Thieves literally used a cherry picker to smash through a window and steal French crown jewels. It's honestly the perfect metaphor for what has happened in cybersecurity this year: Threat actors will use whatever tools they can get their hands on to grab your digital crown jewels.
Today's tools are both super sophisticated and frighteningly easy to access, thanks to ransomware as a service (RaaS). The kicker is that, unlike a museum, your enterprise "treasure room" is massive and spread across the entire globe. That's a lot of windows you need to keep an eye on.
Helping businesses tackle these security challenges is what we're all about at Akamai. Our State of the Internet (SOTI) reports are designed to give you the insights you need to fight back against the threats that are changing the game in cybersecurity.
And, yeah, AI is becoming a bigger player in security, but we know that nothing beats real human expertise when it comes to spotting and stopping sophisticated attacks.