Get ready for the biggest security threats of 2025

Forewarned is forearmed: Davey Winder explores the likely online risks of the year ahead

As a new year dawns, IT managers will naturally be wondering what threats 2025 will bring. And I hope you’re sitting down, because here comes my shocking prediction: the major risks will be… broadly the same as they were in 2024. While we can never be complacent about security, completely new modes of attack emerge quite rarely, and certainly not to an annual schedule. But that doesn’t mean you can relax. While the nature of the threats may be broadly the same from one year to the next, the methods are always evolving, becoming smarter and more subtle. And that means your security defences need to evolve along with them. And it’s not just the biggest organisations that need to keep up. As we’ve said so many times in the…

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