Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Federal agencies are moving fast to unlock AI's potential—from improving citizen services to driving mission outcomes. But with all that innovation comes a new wave of complexity and risk. Security, trust, and transparency can’t be afterthoughts. They need to be part of the build and AI adoption process from day one. AI-driven development is exponentially increasing both code speed and code insecurity, as AI generates code with up to 40% more vulnerabilities than human developers.

In a year defined by AI-driven transformation, Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for Application Security couldn’t have come at a better time. The report outlines a seismic shift in how security leaders approach modern threats, and we are proud to share that Appknox has been recognized as a sample vendor in this year’s edition.

If you’ve been in digital assets long enough, you’ve felt the shift—from experimentation to execution. Banks, custodians, exchanges, and fintechs have laid the groundwork for a new financial ecosystem; one that can support the scale, compliance, and interoperability demands of global finance. But that isn’t just about where assets are stored. If you’re still treating custody as an endpoint rather than a gateway, that’s a problem.

DSPM has become essential in today’s complex security landscape. This piece explores how organizations are evolving beyond basic deployment, the trends reshaping DSPM, and how Netwrix helps deliver continuous, actionable data security at scale. Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) has rapidly matured into a critical component of modern cybersecurity.

As we see in the Trustwave SpiderLabs 2025 Manufacturing 2.0 Threat Report, the manufacturing sector is facing a rapidly increasing number of cyber threats with ransomware and phishing attacks being the attacker's primary weapon. The focus on this sector has resulted in the cost of a data breach in manufacturing jumping nearly $1 million to $5.6 million in 2024 compared to the previous year.

Account takeover (ATO) is one of the most consistent and costly threats facing consumer-facing businesses in 2025. And this year, the problem has been supercharged by the Mother of All Breaches (MOAB), a credential leak containing 16 billion username and password combinations. It rarely begins with a breach of your own systems. More often, it starts with someone else’s data leak. Credentials are reused, recompiled, and redeployed across platforms you may not even realise are vulnerable.

Zero Trust has become the gold standard for modern cybersecurity architectures, built on “never trust, always verify.” Yet a recent study by the Cloud Security Alliance reveals that nearly 1 in 5 organizations have experienced a security incident related to non-human identities, with only 15% remaining confident in their ability to secure them. The culprit? Device identity—the missing link that can render even the most sophisticated Zero Trust strategy ineffective.