The below is an extract from one of the thought leaders in our latest quarterly eBook, Focus on Enterprise AV. For free access to the complete article and the rest of the publication, please click here.
During the last 12 months, cyberattacks have been in the news headlines like never before. From hospitals to banks, there has been a spate of stories that should cause even the most relaxed of organisations to sit up, take notice and – if at all possible – quickly undertake that overdue and comprehensive review of their enterprise network security.
It’s not necessary to look far for data that reinforces this troubling picture. Among a myriad of recent network and IT security research, the latest Global Threat Report (2025) from CrowdStrike makes for sobering reading. According to this report, 2024 saw 26 newly named adversaries and an average e-crime breakout time of just 48 minutes – to select just two of the troubling statistics.
If it’s not bad enough for organisations as large as Santander and the Marriott Hotel Group to be compromised by cyberattack, then you can also add a rapidly worsening geopolitical situation into the mix. There is every indication that, as countries and regions become more polarised by the rise of populism, attacks that are state-related will continue to rise. And so will the costs to individual organisations and countries; indeed, research group Cybersecurity Ventures recently predicted that global cybercrime expenses will grow by 15 percent per year for the next half decade.
With AI set to both cause and resolve cybercrimes, it’s evident there is less scope than ever for companies to downplay the importance of protecting their IT and network infrastructures. Rather like nations realising that they have to shift more spending to defence, it seems inevitable that cybersecurity will be allocated more budget in the years ahead.
In this article we’ll look at the overall outlook for enterprise security; the latest threat types and how they are impacting enterprises; the rise of ‘zero trust’ methodologies and how these can be implemented; the impact that hybrid working has had on network security and the steps being taken to address that; and, finally, whether AI does threaten a new strata of global cyber peril that wouldn’t feel out of place in an episode of Black Mirror.
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