As we quickly approach 2025, there are a lot of things to consider going into the new year. After all, business technology never stops evolving, and neither does business security. As new attacks and vulnerabilities emerge, it’s vital to ensure that you’re up to date with the latest threats and issues within your business.

One of the most important ways to be able to protect your business is by informing yourself on the cybersecurity issues and focuses that you need to consider going into 2025. Making sure that you’re aware of the world of cybersecurity and everything that you need to consider for the sanctity of your business is vital.

That’s why in this article, we’re going to go over the ins and outs of the key focuses you need to consider for 2025 regarding cybersecurity and cyberattacks. We’ll look at the attack focuses, defence focuses, and how you can easily prepare your business.

Attack Focuses

AI-Powered Cyberattacks

Within the last few years, AI has become a powerful and valuable tool in the modern business environment. It can be used as a personal assistant, an automation device, a collaboration tool, and much more, helping organisations thrive like never before. Although rapid advancements in AI benefits companies greatly, AI can often be used for harm.

From attack methods such as phishing and social engineering, to attacks directly involving AI such as deepfakes or malicious GPTs, Cybercriminals can automate, customise, and reinforce every step of their attacks to be more destructive than before with AI or machine learning (ML) algorithms.

Token Theft

Password security is an essential part of curating a safe and secure work environment, especially when working within cloud-based environments, However, with new developments, simply enabling MFA will not be enough to stop intruders from potentially gaining access to your company’s information.

Cybercriminals have developed a way to bypass MFA techniques by using Tokens — by accessing a user’s login token, hackers can skip MFA and gain access to any account without needing access to any of their details. Token Theft can be incredibly dangerous, especially within hybrid working environments.

Supply Chain Attacks

Despite how robust your company’s cybersecurity is, cyberattacks are still a major threat due to other organisations — if a cybercriminal gains access to a third party whose products are included in your digital infrastructure, such as an application developer, your business is at a high risk of infiltration.

Malware can be shipped in an update or included within a hardware’s code, causing thousands of businesses to fall victim to cybercriminals at the fault of another company. These supply chain attacks can go unnoticed for long periods, feeding valuable information to dangerous intruders.

Advanced Persistent Threats

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are different from other cyberattack methods — designed to go unnoticed, these attacks are carried out on a long-term basis, designed to target and harvest a company’s sensitive information. These attacks are usually carried out by experienced cybercriminals — making them extremely difficult to detect and remove.

Defence Focuses

Zero Trust

Zero trust is one of the most important defence focuses — while you’ve probably heard of it before, it’s still as relevant as ever. After all, credential theft is still a real risk, and insider risk is also becoming a massive problem for businesses.

Using zero trust in your business will ensure that users aren’t trusted by default, meaning that you can create a stop gate between people accessing your network and gaining access to your files and servers. It allows you to be able to implement more intricate defence strategies like the principle of least privilege, by assuming that everyone in your network is dangerous until proven otherwise — either through credentials or other forms of verification.

Passkeys

Passkeys are a major development when it comes to cybersecurity and ensuring that your business is secure. They are designed to counteract phishing and credential theft, while also providing a convenient solution to the issue of passwords — in that, there’s no longer a need for a password when your biometrics or a PIN can do the same thing for all of your accounts.

This is vital for businesses that want to consider both security and productivity, providing the same advantages of single sign-on while supercharging the security aspects.

Threat Exposure Management

Threat exposure management (TEM) is the name of the process of monitoring and actioning cyber threats that may affect your business.

There are five steps to TEM implementation:

  • Scoping: Scoping is the action of defining your program’s scope, ensuring that the organisation is monitoring and managing risk across its whole attack surface.
  • Discovery: Discovery identifies assets and the risks associated with them, seeking vulnerabilities and other risks to be aware of.
  • Prioritisation: Prioritisation is the act of ranking different assets and threats, based on the severity of the threats that they pose.
  • Validation: Validation is the process of determining how well you’re protected against a particular risk — usually through penetration testing.
  • Mobilisation: In this phase, you roll out the protections against the potential attack paths, building workflows and leveraging automation to protect your business fully.

XDR

Extended detection and response (XDR) is a multi-faceted approach to cybersecurity, providing a comprehensive set of tools to be able to fully tackle the issue of cyber threats to your business — especially more complex threats.

XDR platforms remove the issues of siloed tools making the whole process of cyber response slower, creating a streamlined tool that can both detect and respond to cyber threats in a vital manner.

How We Can Help

Cybersecurity is a vital consideration going into 2025. Attackers aren’t going to stop trying to pose a threat to your business, so you shouldn’t let up on protecting it either.

If you need a helping hand in protecting your business, reach out to us today. We’re here to help and will ensure that your entire security posture is equipped to be able to face these threats.

Get in touch with us now and see how we can help.