Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Telecom networks are the backbone of the digital economy. They must deliver secure, always-on connectivity at scale, supporting everything from critical national infrastructure to everyday consumer services. But cyber resilience today is no longer defined by uptime alone. It is about the ability to withstand, detect, and respond to highly targeted cyber threats that are designed to exploit the very fabric of telecom environments.

Looking back at 2025, two mega-trends from the past have continued: First, data breaches remained a constant and continued to trend upward; and second, there was once again a headline disaster no one anticipated. The first point needs no elaboration; data breaches are like air pollution—an accepted nuisance that only occasionally becomes so severe that we wonder why we live like this. For the second point, I gesture toward the major incidents of recent years. MoveIt. Crowdstrike. Snowflake.

News AI Usage AI Risk Ria Manzanero Head of Marketing 18 December 2025 3 min read Share.

Cybersecurity in 2026 will be driven by economics. Not hype. Not novelty. Economics. Attackers follow financial incentives and scale their operations faster than most enterprises can defend. CISOs must shift from reporting technical metrics to explaining business impact, guide safe AI adoption as Shadow AI grows, and design programs that emphasize resilience over perfection.

How Mend.io’s ServiceNow integration helps organizations manage application, network, and operational risks together—at scale. Managing AppSec and network risk as separate programs is no longer realistic for enterprise security teams. Today’s digital environments are interconnected, distributed, and constantly changing. A single misconfiguration, unpatched server, or vulnerable open-source component can become a point of exploitation when combined with weaknesses elsewhere in the stack.

On December 3rd Lachlan Davidson disclosed an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC) that exploits how React.js (and Next.js) decodes payloads sent to React Server Function endpoints. On December 4th we started observing fingerprinting attempts for these vulnerabilities and on December 5th we started observing exploitation attempts. React.js is used by 66% of the global digital supply, in the top 0.06% of all technologies.

If 2025 has taught us anything, it’s that risk is no longer confined to the edges of your network. The traditional security perimeter has dissolved, with risk creeping into the very tools we use to run our businesses. Organizations faced off against catastrophic configuration errors, the weaponization of third-party trust connections, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) failures, and attackers who clearly love the holidays.