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2025 Year In Review At Cloud Security Podcast By Google

Google, Monday, December 22nd, 2025

Five years. It's enough time to fully launch a cloud migration, deploy a new SIEM, or - if you're a very large enterprise - just start thinking about doing the first two. It's also how long Tim and I have been subjecting the world to our thoughts on Cloud Security Podcast by Google.

We finally got around to writing the annual 'reflections blog.' And, honestly, looking back at Season 5, the state of the industry feels a lot like a chaotic Cybersecurity Garage Sale.

We're all standing knee-deep in a pile of dusty, obsolete junk - the mid-2000s SIEMs, the 1990s unauthenticated vulnerability scans - while clutching shiny, still-in-the-box AI Agent gadgets we don't quite know where to put. It's a mess. But within this mess, a few essential, high-value items have emerged.

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