The editors at Solutions Review highlight and summarize the key takeaways in Gartner’s inaugural Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response.

Analyst house Gartner, Inc. recently released the inaugural version of its Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response. Gartner defines network detection and response (NDR) products as systems that “continuously monitor traffic for anomalies, suspicious patterns, and threat indicators.” These products are also designed to complement other threat detection solutions, and are delivered as a combination of hardware and software appliances for sensors, some with IaaS support. 

Additionally, Gartner’s report outlines several “mandatory” features an NDR solution must have. These include the ability to model normal network traffic, highlight traffic activity that falls outside the normal range, deliver form factors compatible with on-premises and cloud networks, aggregate individual alerts into structured incidents, detect threats with Intelligence feeds, and provide automatic or manual response capabilities to react to the detection of malicious network traffic.

Key Takeaways: 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response

In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner identifies some of the most significant network detection and response providers in the marketplace. The researchers behind the report—Thomas Lintemuth, Esraa ElTahawy, John Collins, Charanpal Bhogal, and Nahim Fazal—evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of each provider listed and ranked them on the signature “Magic Quadrant” graph, which illustrates each vendor’s ability to execute its vision. The diagram includes four quadrants: leaders, challengers, niche players, and visionaries.

To qualify for the report, each vendor must meet specific criteria. Those include having an NDR product generally available by October 31st, 2024, offering a standalone product that can be deployed without connecting to the Internet, and having at least 30 deployments in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Additionally, the vendors had to meet at least two criteria from the list below:

• Generated $30 million in revenue from the evaluated NDR product between January 1st, 2024, and December 31st, 2024.
• Have at least 150 enterprise customers (each with over 5,000 seats) as of December 31st, 2024.
• Have at least four million devices under paid support as of October 31st, 2024.

Leaders

Vectra AI is the frontrunner in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant’s Leader category. The company’s platform protects networks from attacks by providing intelligent control, signal clarity, and proactive network security posture management. Its strengths as an NDR platform include its user interface, a program it offers to customers migrating from other products, and its NDR education program, which helps customers understand the need for network detection and response.

Darktrace is the next Leader identified in the report. Its NDR is the Darktrace / NETWORK solution, which provides advanced threat detection and autonomous response capabilities by leveraging its core Self-Learning AI. According to Gartner’s researchers, Darktrace’s strengths in the market include its user-friendly UI, a complex detection model library, full functionality for air-gapped deployments, and its program for collecting customer feedback and incorporating it to enhance the product.

ExtraHop earns a spot in the Leader category with its RevealX product, which focuses on detecting threats with NDR while providing users with network intelligence and network performance monitoring (NPM) functionalities. The company’s most significant strengths include its understanding and responsiveness to market trends, as evidenced by its ongoing implementation of generative AI assistants and functionalities. It’s also highly regarded for the capabilities the RevealX platform provides, including a patented decryption capability.

Corelight is the fourth and final Leader in Gartner’s report. Its Open NDR product comprises comprehensive threat detection capabilities for on-premises, industrial control systems (ICS), operational technology (OT), and multi-cloud environments. The company differentiates itself by prioritizing regular product updates and feature releases. It’s also transitioned from an on-premises intrusion detection system (IDS) solution to a hybrid NDR offering. It continues to support the need to deploy across major cloud service providers (CSPs).

Challengers

Stellar Cyber is the only Challenger identified in the Magic Quadrant. Its NDR product provides numerous third-party integrations for mid-size clients in the government, manufacturing, and education markets, positioning its solution as a central platform for ingesting security threats. Other strengths include its upgrade program to help new clients migrate from other products, flexible customer contracts, and its commitment to customer success, exemplified by its ongoing investment in customer onboarding and services.

Niche Players

Trend Micro starts the Niche Player category with the Trend Vision One solution. Trend Vision One uses a “platform approach” to threat detection and response, using its point products while offering some integration with third-party products. Its solution also provides an extensive threat intelligence library to help users improve the attribution and context of their data. The company also earns high marks for its market understanding, as evidenced by its offering an NDR capability as a standalone product alongside having it packaged with the Vision One platform.

ThreatBook’s solution is the Threat Detection Platform (TDP), which focuses almost exclusively on threat detection. While this situates the company as a specialized vendor, it does plan to grow its product by increasing its detection functionalities with additional technologies like generative AI. Its other differentiating traits as a Niche Player include its high customer renewal rate and the range of industries in which its platform has been adopted.

NetWitness primarily works with large, complex global organizations that require a full SOC and cybersecurity program. Gartner spotlights the company’s formal customer feedback program, robust forensic capability, and long-term presence in the NDR market as some of its greatest strengths as a vendor. While the company doesn’t have the same breadth of AI-powered features as other platforms in the market, it does offer a comprehensive selection of full packet capture forensics and session replay capabilities.

Arista Networks is the next provider listed in the Niche Player category. The company’s Arista NDR solution couples network detection and response (NDR) with core network switches, providing clients with a unified infrastructure and security approach. Customers report that Arista is very responsive to feedback and prioritizes fast resolutions to issues. Other notable strengths as an NDR vendor include its relatively higher investment in R&D efforts, its support for encrypted traffic analysis, and the pre-configured appliances it offers to accelerate deployments.

Trellix closes the quadrant with an NDR product built on the company’s successful IDS detection. Its platform generates alerts using AI-powered behavioral detections. It is one of the few products in the market still offering in-line deployments for intrusion prevention system (IPS) use cases. The company is also known for delivering strong forensic analysis and search capabilities, giving customers advanced protection directly from their NDR product.

Visionaries

Gatewatcher closes out the Magic Quadrant with its AIonIQ solution, which is focused on providing an easy-to-use experience through its GAIA technology. The company has a growing customer base and balances its investment strategy for ongoing research and development with its sales success. Gartner specifically highlights Gatewatcher’s investment in generative AI as aligning with the current market trends, which it predicts will appeal to buyers with limited HR.

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What is the Network Observability Summit?

The Network Observability Summit is an annual event series from Broadcom that explores the evolving landscape of network observability by offering insights, best practices, strategies, and innovative solutions for today’s complex network environments. With the theme “Sixth Sense,” the event features a collection of speakers and discussions that aim to help audiences see the unseen in modern networks through artificial intelligence (AI).

Why You Should Attend

For the 5th annual Network Observability Summit, industry experts and peers will demonstrate how network observability can clear up blind spots and explore how AI can transform network operations by reducing downtime, improving efficiency, and solving problems before they impact users. With speakers including a Google AI expert, leading experts from Broadcom, and more, the virtual event aims to spotlight how to streamline the assurance of network experiences in even the most complex, heterogeneous network environments.

The topics and panels scheduled for this year’s event include:

Develop your Sixth Sense with AI

Hosted by: Alok Arora, Head of AI/ML Customer Engineering at Google Cloud

Description: AI is reshaping Network Operations. For the first discussion of the event, Broadcom invites Google AI Guru, Alok Arora, to present a practical view of how AI will impact your daily tasks, improving efficiency and reducing downtime. Learn how to embrace AI and become more proactive and effective. Other topics covered include AI network readiness, how to automate mundane tasks, the new skills needed to thrive in this AI-powered future, and more.

Will AI Really Revolutionize Network Operations?

Hosted by: Mike Melillo, the Sr. Director of Network Observability Software at Broadcom

Description: Forget everything you know about Network Ops. AI is coming, and it’s about to flip the script. Is your network really ready? Prepare to rethink your strategy and prepare for the AI revolution in Network Operations–or be left behind. This session cuts the hype, exposing the brutal truth about AI’s potential and pitfalls. Melillo will discuss various AI approaches, assess your network’s readiness, and tackle the real-world challenges of using AI to fix your biggest headaches.

Network Observability by Broadcom: Roadmap and Demo

Hosted by: Sean Armstrong. Head of Products, Network Observability, at Broadcom

Description: In this session, audiences will hear about the future of Network Observability by Broadcom, including its investments in AI-powered technology that aim to alleviate many L1 NOC operations tasks to focus on business-critical services. You’ll also see the solution in action as Armstrong explores key use cases that help organizations monitor and deliver great user experiences no matter the network, from the enterprise data center to the cloud and beyond.

AI Ambitions? Don’t Forget the Network Foundation

Hosted by: Michael O’Farrell, System Solutions Architect at BT Ireland

Description: Everyone is talking about AI, but are your networks ready? Just as a Ferrari needs a smooth track, your AI initiatives need a robust, observable network foundation. Learn how BT Ireland is building AI-ready networks with a focus on mature network observability.

ATOS Elevates Network Observability to Enable AI-Ready Infrastructure

Hosted by: John Millington, Global Portfolio Manager at ATOS

Description: ATOS, one of Europe’s leading Managed Service Providers, will share how its innovative Technology Framework—built on standardized, proven methodologies—can deliver high-value services while continuously enhancing network observability. In the session, viewers will discover how Broadcom supports that transformation by providing clean, actionable network data that fuels the ATOS framework and lays the groundwork for their next-generation, AI-ready network initiatives.

German Railway Expands Network Visibility To Other Side of Tracks

Hosted by: Andreas Thiede, Product Owner of Management Application Infrastructure Delivery at Deutsche Bahn

Description: Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company, utilizes network observability to ensure every citizen riding their trains gets to their destination on time and without delays. The same can be said for their enterprise network. In this session, Deutsche Bahn reveals the steps they are using to develop a mature network observability practice to build resilient networks and deliver customer experiences on time and without delay.

FAQ

• What: Network Observability Summit 2025 – Sixth Sense
• When: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025, at 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM EDT

Register for the Network Observability Summit 2025

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The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list to spotlight some of the most noteworthy news and announcements made at the RSA Conference 2025, held at Moscone Center in San Francisco from April 28th to May 1st.

For the last 30+ years, the RSAC Conference has been a leading example of the power of the cybersecurity community. Over the last several days, companies worldwide have come together—virtually and on-site in San Francisco, California—to share timely insights and actionable intelligence with peers and customers alike. With nearly 700 sessions, events, and opportunities for interaction scheduled during the three-day event, there was no shortage of avenues for cybersecurity professionals across markets to discuss and learn about the latest ideas and insights across critical AI topics.

Additionally, with so much of the cybersecurity community coming together for RSAC, many of the leading companies in the space capitalized on the opportunity to announce new products, features, enhancements, and partnerships to help their clients and each other build smarter, faster, and more resilient cyber defense strategies. The Solutions Review editors have summarized some top headlines in the curated list below. The list is organized alphabetically by company name.

The Top News and Announcements From the RSA Conference 2025

Abnormal AI Announces New AI Agents

Abnormal AI, an AI-native human behavior security solution, has announced autonomous AI agents. With the AI Phishing Coach and AI Data Analyst agents, organizations can revolutionize how they train employees, report on risks, prevent advanced email attacks, turn complex security data into instantly usable intelligence, explore specific data points, and more. Abnormal AI is also expanding its Inbound Email Security with three new tools: Quarantine Release, URL Rewriting, and Enterprise Remediation Settings.

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Anetac Details a New Feature for Managing Identity Vulnerabilities

Anetac, a company focused on protecting its clients from identity-based vulnerabilities in hybrid environments, has announced the global rollout of Human Link Pro. This new capability aims to unify the management of human and non-human identity vulnerabilities within the Anetac Identity Vulnerability Management Platform. The capability can also help users address the challenges of managing complex identity infrastructures that span both on-premises and cloud environments.

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AppOmni Expands the Capabilities of Its AskOmni Solution

AppOmni, a SaaS security company, has announced that AskOmni, its AI-powered SaaS security companion, can now operate as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The advancement will enable seamless integration with security-focused AI agents and security platforms, including SIEM, NDR, XDR, and IAM solutions. The AppOmni MCP server also aims to provide deeper insights into SaaS identities, security posture, data exposures, and user behaviors.

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AuditBoard Reveals a New AI Governance Solution

AuditBoard, a global platform for connected risk that transforms audit, risk, and compliance, announced a new AI governance solution at the RSAC Conference. With this AI governance platform, customers can implement AI best practices outlined in frameworks like the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s AI Risk Management Framework (NIST AI RMF) to protect their organizations from the cyber, reputational, and financial risks associated with non-compliance.

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Cisco Announces Several New Partnerships and Feature Updates

Cisco made several partnership and feature announcements at the RSA Conference to help security professionals secure and harness the power of AI. The updates include the Instant Attack Verification feature, which integrates data from the Splunk platform, endpoints, networks, threat intelligence, and more; new automated XDR Forensics capabilities to provide more visibility into endpoint activity; the XDR Storyboard, which helps visualize complex attacks; an integration with ServiceNow; and new AI Supply Chain Risk Management security controls.

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Cymulate and SentinelOne Announce Their Partnership

Cymulate, a threat exposure validation company, has partnered with SentinelOne, an AI-powered cybersecurity platform.​​ The collaboration will combine Cymulate and SentinelOne’s security offerings to deliver self-healing endpoint security that empowers organizations to increase protection for every endpoint on their network. Additionally, Cymulate has become a member of SentinelOne’s Singularity Marketplace.

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Dataminr Unveils its Agentic AI Roadmap

Dataminr, a global AI company, has unveiled its Agentic AI roadmap, starting with Intel Agents, its first Agentic AI capability. Intel Agents will allow businesses to task AI agents to autonomously generate critical context as events, risks, and threats unfold. The agents are powered solely by Dataminr’s internally developed and operated LLMs, which are all trained on Dataminr’s proprietary 15-year data and event archive. This enables them to fuse relevant information from external public sources with rich insights from internal data sources.

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Diligent Details Its Partnership with Cloudflare and Qualys

Diligent—a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) SaaS company—has announced a strategic partnership with Cloudflare, a connectivity cloud company, and Qualys, a disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solution provider. Together, the companies will launch the Cyber Risk Report, which can revolutionize how Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and security leaders communicate cyber risk to the board of directors.

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Entrust Releases the Entrust Cryptographic Security Platform

Entrust, a global provider of identity-centric security solutions, has announced the Entrust Cryptographic Security Platform, a unified, end-to-end cryptographic security management solution for keys, secrets, and certificates. With this platform, security, IT, and DevOps teams will have the control they need to streamline the deployment of cryptographic solutions. It will also equip teams with the centralized inventory and visibility required to manage increasingly complex operations and prepare for the shift to post-quantum cryptography.

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Flashpoint Introduces New Features to Its Platform

Flashpoint, the global provider of threat data and intelligence, has announced new capabilities for its flagship platform, Flashpoint Ignite. The new features include AI-powered risk discovery, curated threat feeds, asset-centric intelligence, and on-demand expansion of highly relevant data sources. These updates deliver actionable insights aligned with customers’ threat and intelligence needs, enabling organizations to make informed decisions and protect their critical assets.

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Forcepoint Showcases the Forcepoint Data Security Cloud Solution

Forcepoint, a global data security company, has launched the Forcepoint Data Security Cloud, an AI-powered data security platform designed to unite the visibility and control of data everywhere it’s created, stored, or moved. The platform is built for today’s hybrid, cloud- and AI-driven environments. Its features include automated, behavior-aware analytics, continuous monitoring, and other tools to help organizations improve their clarity, confidence, and control of the entire data security lifecycle.

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Graylog Launches the Spring 2025 Release of Its Security Solution

Graylog, a platform for Security, API protection, and IT Operations, has launched the Spring 2025 release of its Graylog Security solution. Building on the Fall 2024 release (version 6.1), this update will enhance analyst workflows, accelerate time-to-value, and help users set a new bar for speed and flexibility in their threat detection efforts. Specifically, the new Adversary Campaign Intelligence, Data Lake Preview, Selective Data Restore, and Threat Coverage Analyzer tools can equip teams with better detection, real-time context, and more control over what matters.

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Lineaje Debuts New Capabilities to Improve Software Supply Chain Security

Lineaje, a full-lifecycle software supply chain security company, has launched a collection of end-to-end capabilities to transform how organizations protect their critical software. With these features, companies can contextualize risks at all software development stages, proactively address the escalating dangers of software supply chain attacks, and autonomously secure open-source software, source code, and containers with agentic AI-powered self-healing agents.

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Menlo Security Enhances Its Solutions With New Features

Menlo Security, a Secure Enterprise Browser provider, has revealed several enhancements for its solution to give security teams the visibility and control they need to stay ahead of rising AI-powered browser threats. Debuting at the RSA Conference 2025, the latest features include a dedicated dashboard that allows customers to view and manage Secure Application Access and a new, advanced workflow process for the company’s Browsing Forensics offering.

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NetApp Reveals New Capabilities for Strengthening Cyber Resiliency

NetApp, an intelligent data infrastructure company, has announced new security capabilities to help customers strengthen their cyber resiliency. With these updates, security teams can now leverage NetApp to take a proactive approach to data security at the storage layer and enhance their overall security posture. The new additions include embedding post-quantum cryptography into its storage portfolio, updates to its ransomware protection tools,  additional support for its backup and recovery offerings, and expanded professional security assessment and security hardening services.

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Netwrix Adds New Capabilities to Its 1Secure Platform

Netwrix, a cybersecurity solutions provider focused on data and identity threats, unveiled new solutions and capabilities across its 1Secure SaaS platform during the RSA Conference 2025. The company also announced several new risk assessment features for the 1Secure platform, enabling companies to quickly scan their Active Directory, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365 environments to gain insight into security risks and misconfigurations.

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NVIDIA Announces the NVIDIA DOCA Software Framework

NVIDIA has announced a new NVIDIA DOCA software framework, part of the NVIDIA cybersecurity AI platform, which will bring runtime cybersecurity to AI factories. Running on the NVIDIA BlueField networking platform, NVIDIA DOCA Argus is designed to operate on every node to immediately detect and respond to attacks on AI workloads, all while integrating seamlessly with enterprise security systems to deliver instant threat insights.

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Oasis Security Announces the Oasis NHI Provisioning Solution

Oasis Security, a Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) solution, announced the launch of Oasis NHI Provisioning at the RSA Conference. The new capability can automate the creation, governance, and security of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) from their inception. Built into the Oasis NHI Security Cloud, the solution addresses the critical challenges of fragmented processes, ungoverned sprawl, and manual workflows that plague NHI provisioning today.

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Palo Alto Networks Launches the Prisma AIRS Platform

Palo Alto Networks, a global AI cybersecurity company, has announced Prisma AIRS, a new AI security platform designed to protect the entire enterprise AI ecosystem, including AI apps, agents, models, and data. The Prisma AIRS platform aims to help customers deploy AI confidently and address the critical need for robust security in the face of rapid AI adoption across enterprises. Its capabilities include AI model scanning, posture management, AI red teaming, runtime security, and AI agent security tools.

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PRE Security Releases New AI-Powered Cybersecurity Solutions

PRE Security, an AI-native cybersecurity company, has launched GenAI EDR and MiniSOC, two solutions that aim to “redefine” the future of cybersecurity for organizations of all sizes. The GenAI Native EDR replaces outdated static, rule-based approaches with a fully Generative and Agentic AI design at the endpoint. Additionally, the MiniSOC solutions pair PRE Security’s AI SecOps platform with Apple’s M4-based Mac mini and M3 Ultra Mac Studio to eliminate the need for costly GPU servers while maintaining enterprise-class performance and efficiency.

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RSA Details Its New Help Desk Security Solution

RSA, a security-first identity company, has announced several cybersecurity innovations at the RSAC Conference 2025 that will help defend organizations against the next wave of AI-powered identity attacks, including IT Help Desk bypasses, malware, social engineering, and other threats. One of the major additions announced is the RSA Help Desk Live Verify feature, which uses bi-directional identity verification to prevent social engineering and technical support scams by ensuring users and IT staff are who they say they are.

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Saviynt Debuts an Identity Security Posture Management Solution

Saviynt, a provider of cloud-native identity security solutions, has launched its AI-powered Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) solution as part of its converged Identity Cloud platform. With Saviynt’s ISPM offering, companies can utilize actionable insights into their identity and access posture, improve data hygiene, boost the efficiency of their governance controls, reduce audit findings, maintain continuous compliance, and bring application owners into the center of identity management.

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SecurityScorecard and BlinkOps Announce a New Alliance

SecurityScorecard, a supply chain detection and response (SCDR) solution, has announced a new technical alliance with BlinkOps, an AI-powered security automation platform. The partnership will integrate BlinkOps’ generative AI-driven automation capabilities with SecurityScorecard’s risk ratings to equip global security teams with a solution that gives them unparalleled visibility, automation, and control over their cybersecurity posture.

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Silverfort Introduces New Protections for Cloud-Based Identities

Silverfort, an identity security company, has expanded the protection of its non-human identity (NHI) security product to include cloud-based identities, covering NHIs in cloud identity providers, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS applications. The added capabilities will help businesses stop lateral movement, enforce service account protection, get actionable remediation recommendations, and discover and visualize the connections between human and non-human identities across hybrid environments.

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Skyhigh Security Integrates DSPM Capabilities Into Its SSE Solution

Skyhigh Security, a global provider of Security Service Edge (SSE) and data security, has announced the integration of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) capabilities into its data-centric SSE platform. The new capabilities will build on Skyhigh Security’s existing data classification and protection platform services to provide organizations with deeper visibility into sensitive data and streamlined compliance management.

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SOCRadar Details Its New AI-Powered Cybersecurity Assistant

SOCRadar, a global extended threat intelligence and cybersecurity solution provider, has announced SOCRadar Copilot, an AI-powered cybersecurity assistant designed to enhance platform efficiency, automate routine security operations, and share knowledge and insights. The tool aims to help time-strapped security teams streamline their security and reporting processes while learning, adapting, and evolving to help those teams future-proof their defenses against changing risks.

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Sonatype Expands Its Repository Firewall Offering with New Features

Sonatype, an end-to-end software supply chain security company, has introduced several enhancements to its Repository Firewall offering. These updates will expand proactive malware protection efforts across the enterprise, from developer workstations to the network edge. The specific additions include an integration with Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA), Docker registry support, automated malware detection, and support for Hugging Face AI models.

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Superna Launches a Data Attack Surface Manager Platform

Superna, a CyberStorage security provider, has launched Superna Data Attack Surface Manager (DASM), a new platform that enables organizations to continuously identify, prioritize, and control exposure at the data layer. The company’s DASM includes features for data-first risk prioritization, continuous asset monitoring, compensating controls engine, workflow automation, and zero-day readiness. The solution is available now.

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Tuskira Debuts an AI Analyst Workforce

Tuskira, an  AI-native platform built to unify and optimize proactive and responsive security operations, has announced its fully autonomous AI Analyst Workforce at the RSA Conference 2025. The AI workforce includes analysts for detecting novel attacks, correlating emerging IOCs and TTPs, triaging alerts for detection, and identifying toxic security risks of vulnerabilities based on reachability, exposure, exploitability, business context, and defense coverage.

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For World Password Day 2025, the editors at Solutions Review have compiled a list of comments from some of the leading industry experts.

As part of this year’s World Password Day, we called for the industry’s best and brightest in Identity and Access Management and the broader cybersecurity market to share best practices, predictions for the future of passwords, and personal anecdotes. The experts featured represent some of the top influencers, consultants, and solution providers with experience in these marketplaces, and each projection has been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value. The list is organized alphabetically by company name.

World Password Day Quotes from Industry Experts in 2025

Tim Eades, CEO and Co-Founder at Anetac

Arun Shrestha, CEO and Co-Founder at BeyondID

“Passwords are old news, and World Password Day—once a reminder of cybersecurity best practices—now underscores the importance of phasing out the very authentication method it once championed. With stolen credentials topping the breach origin charts and phishing attacks up 4,151 percent since the launch of ChatGPT, it’s clear that traditional passwords are no longer sufficient. Modern threats call for passwordless authentication—not just for stronger security, but for a frictionless user experience. It’s time to answer the phone.”

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“For decades, passwords have been the weak link in cybersecurity–outdated, overused, and increasingly ineffective. But now, organizations are making a clear shift. Multi-factor authentication and sign-in links have emerged as the primary methods for user authentication across the US, UK, and globally, overtaking passwords.

“This step change comes as over half of business and IT decision-makers report higher fraud attempts with username and password alone compared to other methods. We’re at a cybersecurity inflection point: passwords are no longer sufficient. Modern, layered authentication methods, such as facial biometrics, device recognition, or generated codes, are stepping in.

“Rather than forcing users to create longer, more complex passwords, it’s time for organizations to embrace a passwordless future where customers and employees can prove their identity conveniently and securely using their biometrics. This approach reduces risk, streamlines access, and meets the expectations of today’s digital-first users.”

Joel Burleson-Davis, Chief Technology Officer at Imprivata

“This World Password Day, it seems appropriate to shift the discussion from securing and managing passwords to the demise of the password. Passwords have served us well (sort of), and we’ve been long talking about ditching the traditional, complex password because of their burden and unintentional insecurity. However, with every second mattering in critical work, now more than ever, passwordless authentication has become business-critical.

“There are signs of good adoption of both passwordless strategies and shunning our old password-burdened ways in mobile devices, which are built with and extensively leverage facial recognition for security purposes, but some of our most critical technologies in our most critical sectors have been reluctant to implement similar solutions in their operations. As life- and mission-critical industries like healthcare and manufacturing cope with staffing challenges while being increasingly targeted, it’s time they reconsider access management and their relationship with the password paradigm.

“In healthcare, for example, and in particular, the delivery of health care, where a 17-character password is not practical for clinicians who are treating patients who need rapid and frequent access to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in all kinds of situations. Entering a complex password for these users only creates barriers that delay patient care, eats up clinician time, and exacerbate burnout.

“Passwordless solutions, particularly biometrics-based ones, offer a tailored and frictionless experience that enables everyone from healthcare providers to manufacturing operators to maintain the highest security standards while empowering them to deliver timely, critical work without unnecessary barriers. I look forward to a World Password Day in the future that is full of cheering and celebration because we’ve finally released ourselves from the burden of putting memorized, complex strings into a little prompt box for the sake of security.”

Stephanie Schneider, Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at LastPass

“World Password Day is a great reminder for every organization that identity access management is the foundation of effective company security. Abusing legitimate credentials is one of the easiest and most common ways hackers gain unauthorized access to systems. Given the rise of infostealers over the last few years, which frequently target credentials and other sensitive data to resell on underground marketplaces, acquiring these is easier than ever. Credentials and session cookies stolen from employees’ personal devices can be used to breach corporate networks.

“A key aspect of stealers is their heavy reliance on the ‘spray-and-prey’ tactic, rather than directly targeting corporate networks, they’re counting on individuals having weaker security on their personal devices and using their work credentials on personal devices. The time from infection via stealer malware to the time that information is posted to the dark web can be speedy, especially with automation tools. Organizations must monitor for exposed credentials and change credentials as quickly as possible to disrupt breaches and attacks before they can occur. In a world where hybrid work has blurred the lines between personal and professional devices, businesses can’t afford to be casual about credential management.

“Using strong, unique passwords is just the tip of the iceberg when protecting your identity access. Reusing passwords across services is still one of the most common mistakes employees make—and one of the easiest ways for attackers to gain access. Requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA) should be standard for every business account, and it is a good idea for personal accounts, too.

“This World Password Day, take a look at your access policies. Are you protecting your company or making it easier for someone else to break in?”

“Leverage passkeys as the primary authentication method whenever possible. While passkeys are not immune to cyber-attacks, they are significantly more secure and phishing-resistant because they are linked to a device or leverage biometric authentication. Plus, they’re a whole lot easier to manage than constantly juggling new password combinations.”

Anthony Cusimano, Solutions Director at Object First

“I believe the death of the password is just around the corner. Passwords are no longer a secure method of authentication and should not be treated as secure. So, I’ll share the advice I have taken up in the last year: use a password manager, app-based or browser-based (either works!).

“Password managers securely store your passwords in a locked vault and come with convenient browser extensions that autofill logins. They can also generate unique, complex passwords for every account. Many of these tools allow you to customize password requirements according to your preferences, including specifying length and incorporating symbols, numbers, and mixed case. Additionally, password managers can alert you to duplicate or weak passwords and often suggest optimal times for changes.

“The password alone is NOT a secure authentication method; that’s why I have given up trying to maximize their security and left the brainwork to someone else. It’s 2025—let an app do the password legwork for you, and here’s to hoping that passwords become a thing of the past sooner rather than later.”

Nicolas Fort, Director of Product Management at One Identity

“Passwords have come a long way, from punch-tape reels in 1961 to the world of multi-factor authentication and fingerprint identification we inhabit today. The next leap is already happening—passkeys tied to devices, one-time AI-generated tokens, and even blockchain-backed session receipts. It’s no accident that password technology is constantly evolving.

“Cyber-attacks are more frequent, threat actors have more sophisticated tools at their disposal, and as businesses continue to store more and more sensitive data online, regulators are rightly demanding that they keep up. The EU’s NIS2, the UK’s Cyber Resilience Act, DORA, HIPAA, and countless other rules and regulations now demand rock-solid control over user accounts at every touchpoint. That means audited sessions, behavioral analytics, rotating passwords, and just-in-time credentials—so that no matter how hard attackers try, there’s simply nothing there to steal.”

Drew Perry, Chief Innovation Officer at Ontinue

“As positive a day as World Password Day is, I look forward to the day it no longer exists or is at least renamed! With the rise of passkey support across major platforms and devices, we’re finally seeing a shift towards more secure and user-friendly authentication. Passkeys are cryptographic credentials that eliminate the need for passwords entirely, offering phishing-resistant, biometric-based access. It’s time we moved beyond passwords, which are too often reused, weak, or compromised. Simpler identity protection is needed so we, as humans, don’t just pick a random string of characters that we will never remember!”

“We have come a long way. Password manager adoption is rising, multi-factor authentication is available for most critical online services, and people are reusing the same passwords less. But still, hackers are succeeding in their attacks. We have been saying since the early 2010s that “hackers don’t hack in, they log in,” and as time goes on, it becomes even more true.

“Stolen credentials overtook email phishing as the second most frequently observed initial infection vector in 2024 during intrusions into businesses. At Ontinue, we have witnessed first-hand the rise of sophisticated infostealer malware, which captures passwords as they are entered by users during login. This enables attackers to simply log in if no other secondary authentication methods are enabled, which, sadly, is often the case.

“Awareness is key. Enable passkeys where possible. I suggest we lay the password to rest and embrace the passwordless future.”

“World Password Day serves as an annual reminder of a universal truth: passwords are a pain. Despite being a cornerstone of our digital lives, they consistently fall short. From the widespread practice of password reuse—a virtual invitation to cyber-criminals—to the ease with which they can be compromised through social engineering or simple guessing, the inherent weaknesses of password-based authentication are undeniable.

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The editors at Solutions Review are exploring the emerging AI application layer with this authoritative list of the best AI agents for cybersecurity use cases that teams should consider integrating into their business security efforts.

The proliferation of generative AI has ushered in a new era of cybersecurity, and AI agents are heavily involved in that transformation. As threat actors continue to find new ways to disrupt businesses, AI has become an essential tool in every company’s lineup of defense systems. Whether autonomously monitoring network traffic, detecting anomalous patterns, or responding to potential threats in real-time, AI agents in cybersecurity can help your company adapt its defense strategies and remain agile as new threats present themselves.

In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, our editors will spotlight some of the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for cybersecurity teams to help you find the right tool for your specific needs. This resource is designed to help you:

• Understand what makes cybersecurity AI agents different from traditional automation tools
• Explore the capabilities and limitations of each available agent or agent platform in the marketplace
• Choose the best solution for your team based on use case, skill level, and scalability options

Note: This list of the best AI agents for cybersecurity was compiled through web research using advanced scraping techniques and generative AI tools. Solutions Review editors use a unique multi-prompt approach to employ targeted prompts to extract critical knowledge and optimize content for relevance and utility. Our editors also utilized Solutions Review’s weekly news distribution services to ensure the information is as close to real-time as possible. The list is organized in alphabetical order.

The Top AI Agents for Cybersecurity Teams

Arctic Wolf Agent

Description: Arctic Wolf’s Agent is a lightweight software designed to autonomously collect actionable intelligence from their IT environments, scan endpoints for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and even respond to emerging threats.

Arctic Wolf Agent is managed 24×7 by security operations experts from the Arctic Wolf Concierge Security Team (CST), which provides clients with additional support in their threat detection, assessment, and containment efforts. It’s designed to extend IT bandwidth by monitoring wireless networks, event logs, process tables, installed software, SSL certificates, and more.

Key Features:

• Identify and benchmark risk profiles against globally accepted configuration guidelines and security standards.
• Host-based vulnerability assessment will continuously monitor servers and workstations for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
• Only 10MB of memory utilization under normal operating standards.
• Block data exfiltration and propagation of threats by preventing servers and workstations from communicating.

Get Started: Arctic Wolf Agent can be installed transparently via the existing software deployment processes your IT department is working with. It uses universal installers (i.e., MSI and PKG), requires zero maintenance once implemented, carries no performance impact, and can be updated seamlessly through the Arctic Wolf Platform.

Darktrace

Description: Darktrace’s Cyber AI Analyst combines human expertise with the speed and scale of artificial intelligence. It’s designed to reduce the time spent investigating alerts by streamlining workflows so your security team can focus on urgent or higher-value tasks.

Unlike copilots or prompt-based AI agents built to interpret text, Darktrace’s Cyber AI Assistant can replicate the human investigative process by questioning data, testing hypotheses, and reaching conclusions based on the results, all without human intervention. The Analyst also runs continuously, so it can re-investigate existing alerts with emerging data in real-time to ensure thorough analyses.

Key Features:

• The Analyst can recommend the next-best actions unique to each incident.
• Set up repeatable, integrated investigative workflows that are custom to your organization.
• Autonomous responses stop malicious actions while giving defenders time to analyze and remediate.
• Simplify incident understanding with detailed insights and investigative processes.

Get Started: The Cyber AI Analyst is built to underpin the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform, which allows clients to trial the company’s platforms in unison across use cases and technologies.

Fortinet

Description: FortiClient, an agent for the Fortinet Security Fabric solution, provides businesses with protection, compliance, and secure access, all from a single, modular, lightweight client.

The agentic tool runs on an endpoint like a laptop or mobile device. It autonomously communicates with Fortinet Security Fabric to provide users with the information, visibility, and control they need to manage each device. This can minimize the need for manual intervention and promote faster threat remediations across environments.

Key Features:

• Secure endpoints with ML anti-malware and behavior-based anti-exploit.
• FortiClient enables remote workers to securely connect to a network using zero-trust principles.
• Control access to cloud-based applications, including visibility to shadow IT.
• Harden endpoint security with vulnerability scanning, automated patching, software inventory, and app firewall functionalities.

Get Started: FortiClient comes in several models with increasing degrees of protection and capabilities. It’s built to integrate with the key components of Fortinet Security Fabric and is centrally managed by the Endpoint Management Server (EMS). Clients can also enhance the tool’s value with Fortinet’s professional services offerings, which can help streamline upgrades, patches, deployment, and monitoring processes.

Purple AI by SentinelOne

Description: Purple AI is a cybersecurity analyst powered by agentic AI technologies that enable teams to use natural language prompts and context-based suggested queries to identify hidden risks, respond to threats faster, and conduct in-depth investigations.

SentinelOne designed Purple AI to scale autonomous protection across the enterprise and amplify a security team’s capabilities by streamlining and automating SecOps workflows. For example, Purple AI can generate incident summaries, self-documenting notebooks, and recommended queries.

Key Features:

• Purple AI is architected with the highest level of safeguards to protect against misuse and hallucinations.
• Synthesize threat intelligence and contextual insights in a conversational user experience.
• View and manage security data in one place with a unified console for native and third-party security data.
• Generate summaries that communicate the seriousness of an incident, key findings of the hunt, and recommended actions.

Get Started: SentinelOne’s agentic AI functionalities are available in the Complete, Commercial, and Enterprise models of the company’s Singularity solution. Each offering provides scalable features to help companies of all sizes and needs streamline and improve their cybersecurity efforts.

Alex by Twine

Description: Alex is Twine’s first digital employee. The AI agent is designed to join your team and handle the execution and orchestration of identity and access management processes.

Alex is capable of planning, approving, and automatically executing tasks. Potential use cases for Alex include onboarding users to a new application, assigning employees to orphaned accounts, optimizing a company’s existing identity governance and administration (IGA) platforms, and more.

Key Features:

• Autonomously repairs issues, removes roadblocks, and recovers whatever is needed to complete objectives.
• Handle and fix edge cases and exceptions with minimum human intervention.
• Connect and bond multiple HR systems, identity silos, and SaaS platforms within larger organizations.
• Identity applications that require multi-factor authentication (MFA) and migrate them into an MFA framework without disrupting your team’s workflow.

Get Started: Twine’s Digital Employees are designed to integrate easily with a company’s existing systems. The agents learn and adapt to each client’s unique requirements, environments, and applications. Twine’s engineers can even research and build specific integrations to suit special cases when needed.

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Solutions Review’s listing of the best endpoint security vendors and solutions is an annual look into the software providers included in our Buyer’s Guide and Solutions Directory. Our editors gathered this information via online materials, reports, product demonstrations, conversations with vendor representatives, and free trial examinations.

Endpoint security occupies an exciting space in the cybersecurity market. The traditional digital perimeter—the former prime area of protection for endpoint security software—no longer exists. Identity and authentication have now almost wholly subsumed the perimeter of enterprise IT environments. Yet, the typical IT environment has grown far beyond what any expert could have predicted even a few years ago. Not only are more enterprises migrating to the cloud and facing the security issues that come with the subsequent decentralization, but they are also expanding the endpoints connecting to their networks.

Endpoint security solutions have to provide more than antivirus capabilities, though. These solutions must also extend visibility over mobile and IoT devices, scan for dwelling threats on devices through endpoint detection and response (EDR), and control how data can move into and out of your network and within its various databases. To help companies find and implement the best endpoint security vendors and software, the editors at Solutions Review have compiled this list of the best endpoint security vendors in the marketplace worth knowing about in 2025 and beyond.

Note: Companies are listed in alphabetical order.

The Best Endpoint Security Vendors and Solutions

Bitdefender

Description: Bitdefender is a global cybersecurity provider offering solutions for small businesses, enterprises, consumers, and partners. The company’s product suite includes several endpoint security solutions, including endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), and identity threat detection and response (ITDR). With those tools, companies have access to capabilities for advanced risk management, real-time attack visualizations, cross-endpoint correlations, exploit defense, patch management, threat hunting tools, and other features for consolidating investigations across endpoints, identities, productivity applications, networks, clouds, and more.

BlackBerry

Description: BlackBerry is a leader in the cybersecurity market and focuses on helping businesses, government agencies, and safety-critical institutions of all sizes secure the Internet of Things (IoT). Its endpoint security offering is powered by Cylance AI and aims to provide IT teams with the AI-driven tools they need to prevent and stop threats. Capabilities include 24×7 incident triage, an Open XDR architecture, real-time protection, AI-powered threat prevention, task automation, and predictive AI and generative AI technologies for proactively detecting and neutralizing threats across diverse IT environments.

Broadcom

Description: Broadcom is a global infrastructure technology provider built on more than sixty years of innovation, collaboration, and engineering experience. With roots based on the technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent, and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent, Broadcom focuses on technologies that connect our world. It primarily offers semiconductor, enterprise software, and security solutions for the industrial, automotive, financial services, government, and other industries. The company even offers a suite of enterprise security solutions, a mainframe security and payment authentication software, and integrated Symantec cybersecurity software.

Check Point

Description: California-based Check Point Software is a cybersecurity company offering an extensive collection of solutions for small, mid-size, and large companies across industries. Its endpoint security platform includes data security, advanced threat prevention, forensics, network security, remote access VPN, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities, which can all be managed from a single centralized management console. These endpoint protection functionalities also provide streamlined policy enforcement tools to help users maximize their Windows and Mac OS X security efforts.

CrowdStrike

Description: CrowdStrike is an AI-native cybersecurity provider focused on helping organizations of all sizes stop cloud breaches, prevent identity attacks, and modernize their SOC. With CrowdStrike’s AI and ML-powered endpoint protection platform (EPP), companies can use in-depth threat intelligence, attack indicators, script control, and advanced memory scanning capabilities to detect and block malicious behaviors early in the kill chain. Other functionalities include AI-powered risk scoring, unified visibility across the cloud, ransomware protection, automated remediation, firewall management, 24/7 managed services, and more.

Cynet

Description: Cynet is a managed cybersecurity platform built for MSPs and SMEs. Its solution suite incorporates tools for protecting workstations, servers, and mobile devices safe from malware, ransomware, and other dangerous cyber threats. For example, its specific endpoint security collection includes EDR, ransomware protection, endpoint security posture management (ESPM), and EPP offerings. Those tools come equipped with threat intelligence, next-gen antivirus (NGAV), malware protection, memory access controls, network visibility, autonomous detection and response, remediation playbooks, continuous risk scanning, and more.

Druva

Description: Druva is a cloud-based data security SaaS platform designed to help companies enhance their security measures, enable faster incident response, promote effective cyber remediations, and equip them with robust data governance across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. For example, its cyber response and recovery offerings provide advanced threat hunting, managed data detection and response (DDR), built-in automations to streamline recovery, a zero-trust architecture, automated patching, anomaly alerts, and a collection of integrations with SIEM, SOAR, and other security-centric technologies.

GoSecure

Description: GoSecure is a managed security solution and advisory service provider that focuses on helping customers understand their security gaps, improve organizational risk, and enhance security posture through advisory services. With GoSecure  Titan—a Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR)​ solution—organizations can manage the entire threat landscape. Its capabilities include real-time threat detection, advanced predictive intelligence, proactive threat hunting, continuous monitoring, 24/7 SOC analyst support, human-led incident response services, vulnerability management as a Service (VMaaS) scanning, reporting tools, and integrations with other relevant technologies.

Ivanti

Description: Ivanti is a software company that provides IT and security teams with solutions that scale alongside their needs, enabling secure and elevated employee experiences. With Ivanti’s Secure Unified Endpoint Management Solutions, companies have access to a unified view of their devices, making it easier to discover, manage, and ensure the security of their endpoints. Its endpoint management capabilities include asset discovery, asset inventory, app distribution, device enrollment, configuration management, remote control tools, software spend optimization, application management, and partner conditional access via integration with Microsoft AAD and Google BeyondCorp.

Kaspersky

Description: Kaspersky is renowned for its threat intelligence software and network of security experts worldwide. Its product suite offers hybrid cloud security, network protection, threat intelligence, data protection, and a collection of professional and managed services for companies of all sizes to benefit from. The company’s endpoint security solution is built to stop attacks in the earliest stages of execution, detect threats with machine learning behavior analysis, adapt to user behavior, simplify IT tasks, automate routine tasks, and cut off possible entryways for attackers by controlling web, device, and application usage.

LogMeIn

Description: LogMeIn, a GoTo company, is a remote access software and support solution provider. As part of its product suite, LogMeIn offers unified endpoint management and monitoring software to manage all of a company’s endpoints from a single dashboard. This solution, titled LogMeIn Central, comes equipped with automated task management, real-time endpoint system alerts, an antivirus manager, advanced reporting tools, multi-monitor displays, file transfers, self-healing alerts, and other functionalities to help IT teams and MSPs track, update, and protect their IT assets from a central location.

ManageEngine

Description: As the IT management division of Zoho Corporation, ManageEngine prioritizes flexible solutions that work for all businesses, regardless of size or budget. ManageEngine Endpoint Central is a Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) and security software that comprehensively addresses the requirements of IT administrators. It helps IT administrators perform patch management, software deployment, mobile device management, OS deployment, and remote control to troubleshoot devices. With the help of endpoint security features, which include vulnerability assessment, application control, device control, BitLocker management, and browser security, IT administrators can safeguard their network endpoints.

Microsoft Security

Description: Technology giant Microsoft should need no introduction to either the layperson or the technical expert. In addition to their PCs and operating systems, Microsoft offers Microsoft Security, a software endpoint security suite. This provides an integrated set of solutions designed to work smoothly with Microsoft’s operating system without interrupting workflow with a complex deployment. It even provides a cloud-based management system. Microsoft has received high customer approval rates, evidenced by its position as a Leader in several of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for EPP reports. 

NetWitness

Description: NetWitness is a network threat detection and cybersecurity monitoring company focusing on threat detection, investigation, and response. Alongside its SIEM, SOAR, NDR, and other products, NetWitness has an endpoint detection and response product capable of monitoring activity across all a company’s endpoints, on and off the network. Features include continuous endpoint monitoring, integrated behavior-based detection, in-depth user visibility, and other tools for detecting endpoint threats, reducing attack dwell time, empowering security teams to understand attacks better, and simplifying endpoint data collection.

Palo Alto Networks

Description: Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity provider that focuses on helping organizations address security challenges and take advantage of the latest technologies. As part of its AI-driven, human-empowered SOC, Palo Alto Networks offers Cortex XDR, a detection and response offering that blocks advanced malware, exploits, and fileless attacks. Cortex XDR’s functionalities include cloud-based analysis tools, behavioral threat protection, incident management features, incident scoring, automated root cause analysis, extended data collection, behavioral analytics, and an AI-powered agent to help teams stop threats.

SentinelOne

Description: SentinelOne is an advanced enterprise cybersecurity AI platform that protects a company’s endpoint, cloud, and data. For example, its endpoint security offerings include the following products: Singularity Endpoint, XDR, RemoteOps Forensics, and Threat Intelligence. These solutions can help businesses augment detections with threat intelligence, gather telemetry across their endpoints, extend endpoint visibility, rapidly respond to threats across multiple endpoints, combine static and behavioral detections to neutralize threats, streamline vulnerability management with ready-made or custom scripting, and more.

Sophos

Description: Sophos is a global provider of advanced cybersecurity solutions and services, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) software, incident response support, and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies that help organizations defeat cyber-attacks. Its endpoint-centric security capabilities cover everything from attack surface reduction, threat prevention tools, data loss prevention (DLP), application control, ransomware protection, deep learning (AI-powered) malware prevention, behavior analysis, anti-exploitation guards, file integrity monitoring (FIM), and more.

Trellix

Description: Trellix is a threat detection and response solution that helps businesses reduce risk, build resilience, and protect themselves against the latest cyber threats. Its platform uses generative and predictive AI technology to power threat detections, streamline investigations, summarize risks, and provide teams with threat landscape contextualization. Its endpoint security capabilities include centralized security management at scale, proactive attack surface management, a fully-featured threat prevention stack, continuous device monitoring, device and application controls, endpoint forensics, and a collection of add-ons.

Trend Micro

Description: Trend Micro’s endpoint security solutions ensure mobile and desktop protection against everything from traditional threats to the latest sophisticated, targeted attacks. Trend Micro offers a full suite of EDR and EPP solutions focusing on multi-layered security, exploitation protection, and machine learning. It has received praise for its fully-featured Apex One endpoint security solution, which features adaptive preventative capabilities, patching functions, and managed detection services. Trend Micro also offers its team of security threat experts and researchers who identify millions of threats and secure the Internet of Things.

Webroot

Description: Webroot, an OpenText company, is an endpoint protection, security awareness training, and network protection solution provider that focuses on helping managed service providers and small businesses maximize their cyber resilience. Its endpoint security and protection offering uses AI-powered threat intelligence and predictive analytics to provide companies with automated protection against zero-day threats. The platform also harnesses cloud computing and real-time machine learning technologies to monitor and adapt endpoint defenses continuously.

Xcitium

Description: Xcitium rebranded from Comodo Security right before it launched its zero-threat endpoint platform, Xcitium Zero Threat, to combat increased ransomware and other malware across all industries. Zero Threat utilizes patented Kernel API Virtualization to prevent all unknown ransomware and other malware from accessing critical systems and resources without impacting the user experience and to reduce false-positive alerts. When cyber-attacks are increasing exponentially, leaving enterprises and governmental agencies vulnerable to losing millions, Xcitium’s suite of solutions is even more vital to prevent the damages these threats continue to cause.

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Secureworks is part of an exclusive webinar series for enterprise business software users. This event will feature an hour-long discussion and software demo to help viewers improve their exposure management processes.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive, expert webinar events for industry professionals across the enterprise technology and MarTech fields. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, Expert Webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers in enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people visit Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with Secureworks, a cybersecurity company that offers a combination of cloud-native, SaaS security platforms and intelligence-driven security solutions. The hour-long webinar will focus on key lessons from 2024’s threat landscape, share predictions for 2025’s cyber challenges and opportunities, and discuss best practices for balancing strategic goals with tactical progress, emphasizing that “better, better, never done” is the ultimate aim.

Speakers

Alex Rose is the Director of Cybersecurity and Governmental Partnerships at Secureworks. She spearheads initiatives to strengthen public and private relationships in this role, contributing to Secureworks’ recognition as a CISA Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) strategic partner. Simultaneously, as the Director of Threat Research, Alex focuses on enabling internal stakeholders and external customers, including decision-makers, to comprehend the evolving threat landscape.

Ken Deitz is Secureworks’ Chief Information Security Officer, responsible for leading the company’s global corporate and product security teams. He joined Secureworks in 2011, where he created and led the Corporate Incident Response Team (CIRT). In 2013, Ken transitioned to leading the Corporate Threat Intelligence Team, and in early 2016, Ken became the CSO/CISO for Secureworks.

Chris Ahearn is the Director of Incident Response at Secureworks. With over 20 years of experience in Information Security, Chris has built a distinguished career spanning client-facing and management roles. He’s a recognized Subject Matter Expert in Network and Host forensics and has played a pivotal role in developing several incident response practices from the ground up.

Rafe Pilling is the Director of Threat Intelligence and works with the company’s Counter Threat Unit (CTU). He is part of a team of 100+ researchers and cybersecurity experts performing targeted cyber threat intelligence research and technical analysis for both targeted and commodity cyber threats. With over 15 years of experience studying cyber-attacks from hostile state actors, Rafe is a subject matter expert in the field and consistently advises C-suite executives on maximizing their security.

About Secureworks

Secureworks is a global cybersecurity leader focused on helping its customers and partners in the education, financial, government, and manufacturing markets outpace and outmaneuver adversaries with more precision, enabling them to adapt and respond to market forces with increased agility. Its solution suite includes Network Security, Endpoint Security, Vulnerability Management, Identity Security, OT Security, and Detection and Response offerings.

FAQ

• What: From Reflection to Action: Navigating Cybersecurity into 2025 and Beyond
  
• When: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details) and LinkedIn

Register for the Solutions Spotlight with Secureworks for FREE

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Solutions Review’s listing of The Best Managed Detection and Response Vendors in 2025 is an annual mashup of products that best represent current market conditions, according to the crowd. 

The editors at Solutions Review continually research the Best Managed Detection and Response Vendors to assist buyers in finding the tools that best suit their organization’s needs. Choosing the right vendor and solution can be complicated; it requires constant market research and often comes down to more than just the solution and its technical capabilities. Yet it’s essential; Managed Detection and Response can help bridge gaps in security monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response for businesses struggling to fill their IT security teams.

Our editors selected the best MDR products based on each solution’s Authority Score, a meta-analysis of real user sentiment through the web’s most trusted business software review sites, and our proprietary five-point inclusion criteria.

The Best Managed Detection and Response Vendors to Consider in 2025

Arctic Wolf

Description: Arctic Wolf is a global provider of security operations solutions for companies across the financial services, healthcare, government, manufacturing, and other industry markets. Its solution offerings include Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Managed Risk, Managed Security Awareness, and Incident Response products, all delivered by the company’s Concierge Delivery Model. Its MDR-specific functionalities include 24/7 threat monitoring, advanced threat detection, root cause analysis, guided remediation, managed investigations, and more. The company also offers services to help customers deploy and manage their products.

Bitdefender

Description: Bitdefender is a global cybersecurity company that provides clients with threat prevention, detection, and response solutions. Its consumer offerings include a premium VPN and SecurePass alongside Identity Protection, Digital Identity Protection, and Identity Theft Protection offerings. The company also provides solutions for small and enterprise clients. Bitdefender’s MDR-centric capabilities include tools for incident root cause analysis, threat hunting, impact analysis, actionable reporting, and a global network of SOCs.

Blackpoint Cyber

Description: Blackpoint Cyber is an identity-driven MDR platform powered by a 24/7 security operations center. With its 24/7 MDR offering, Blackpoint aims to isolate endpoints and help companies close the gap between a threat’s identification and response and remediation. Specific capabilities include insider threat detection, automated anti-ransomware, streamlined agent deployments, continuous monitoring of privileged users, network visualization, custom application settings, managed application controls, and cloud-based, multi-tenant architecture. The company also provides a collection of managed EDR and integration offerings for customers to utilize.

CrowdStrike

Description: CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity company, offers an advanced, cloud-native platform that protects critical areas of enterprise risk, including endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform is powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and AI and leverages real-time attack indicators, threat indicators, evolving adversary tradecraft, and telemetry from across the enterprise to provide users with automated protection and remediation, elite threat-hunting tools and vulnerability observability. Other features include its lightweight-agent architecture, scalable deployment, reduced complexity, and faster time-to-value.

Cynet

Description: Cynet is an “all-in-one” cybersecurity platform built for MSPs and SMEs. The platform comes equipped with email, user, cloud, SaaS, network, and endpoint security, alongside security automation, extended detection and response (XDR), centralized log management, and mobile protection functionalities. These offerings equip organizations with SOAR, EDR, XDR, NDR, CSPM, deception tools, next-gen antivirus, and other features. Cynet’s platform is also complemented by 24/7 MDR services, which provide clients with continuous monitoring and expert advice at no extra cost.

eSentire

Description: eSentire is a global leader in the managed detection and response market. It works with companies across thirty-five industries to help them hunt, investigate, and prevent cyber threats before they become business-disrupting events. The company’s solutions combine machine-learning XDR technology with 24/7 threat-hunting tools, threat intelligence research, and incident response services to ensure enterprises can maintain their security. Capabilities include multi-signal threat intelligence, automated real-time threat disruption, threat containment, human-led threat investigations, multi-signal coverage, and more.

Forescout

Description: Forescout Technologies is a global cybersecurity solution provider focused on identifying, protecting, and helping clients ensure the compliance of all their managed and unmanaged connected cyber assets, including IT, IoT, IoMT, and OT. The platform offers risk and exposure management, network security, and threat detection and response functionalities. For example, its detection and response features cover everything from anomaly detection to Deep Protocol Behavior Inspection (DPBI), malware detection, custom detection scripts, third-party EDR integrations, behavioral modeling, and more.

Forta

Description: Fortra is a cybersecurity and automation software provider. Its product suite includes data protection, vulnerability management, email security, anti-phishing, digital risk protection, managed security services, and more. The company’s managed detection and response solution is Alert Logic, which it acquired in 2022. Alert Logic is an adaptable MDR product outfitted with proactive threat hunting, automated responses, rapid threat detection, comprehensive IT landscape visibility, real-time dashboards for tracking risks, a security operations center (SOC), and in-depth threat insights from cyber-risk experts.

Rapid7

Description: Rapid7 is a unified threat exposure, detection, and response security platform designed to help security teams reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, investigate and shut down attacks, and automate routine tasks. Its MDR offers around-the-clock expert monitoring to defend against threats and stop attackers in their tracks, real-time incident detection and validation, and proactive threat hunting. Other capabilities include full access to InsightIDR, Rapid7’s cloud SIEM, and incident management and response.

Sophos

Description: Sophos is a global provider of advanced cybersecurity solutions, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services alongside a portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. The company’s MDR offerings include 24/7 threat detection and response, expert-led threat-hunting services, full-scale incident response, an instant security operations center (SOC), breach prevention, and more. It also integrates with an extensive, open ecosystem of technology partners to help clients optimize their cybersecurity efforts.

Trellix

Description: Trellix is a GenAI-powered security platform that aims to “transform” security operations with AI, automation, and analytics technologies. Its collection of security solutions provides coverage for everything from networks to emails, the cloud, data, SecOps, and the endpoint. The company’s solution suite also includes ransomware detection and response capabilities to prepare teams for potential attacks, minimize the time it takes to detect a threat, reduce response times with AI-powered tools, mitigate malicious tampering of files, streamline recovery times, perform root cause analyses, and more.

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As part of this year’s Insight Jam LIVE event, the Solutions Review editors have compiled a list of predictions for 2025 from some of the most experienced professionals across the SIEM, Endpoint Security, Networking Monitoring, and broader cybersecurity marketplaces.

As part of Solutions Review’s annual Insight Jam LIVE event, we called for the industry’s best and brightest to share their SIEM, endpoint, and cybersecurity predictions for 2025 and beyond. The experts featured represent some of the top solution providers with experience in these marketplaces, and each projection has been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value.

Cybersecurity Predictions for 2025 and Beyond

Idan Plotnik, co-founder and CEO of Apiiro

Security architects will surrender to genAI and open-source developments:

“In 2025, the rise of generative AI and open-source developments will bring new layers of complexity to software architecture, challenging consistent security oversight. As development velocity accelerates, manual security reviews and checklists won’t keep up, and application security engineers and security architects will lose all control. Companies should pivot toward automation and integrated security tools that provide continuous, scalable oversight while embracing a shift-left security approach to keep pace with agile, AI-driven application development cycles.”

Software architecture complexity will challenge security posture control

“With AI and code generation becoming core to software development, we’re on the verge of unprecedented architectural complexity that will make traditional security posture control nearly impossible. By 2025, new forms of malware and open-source codebase vulnerabilities will emerge, and attackers will leverage AI to craft advanced, evasive malware.”

The rise of AI-driven threats in open-source

“In 2025, open-source software threats will shift from traditional vulnerabilities to AI-generated backdoors and malware embedded in open-source packages. With attackers leveraging AI tools to develop and disguise malware within open source code, addressing these new threats will require a significant advancement in security tools to stay ahead of these quickly evolving challenges.”

Nadir Izrael, co-founder and CTO at Armis Security

Unified Security Management for Holistic Risk Prioritization

“The rise of AI-driven cyber weapons and the increasingly blurred lines between military and civilian targets underscores the need for a holistic approach to security. A “single-pane-of-glass” strategy—one that consolidates security insights from diverse inputs like source code, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities—will become essential to navigating the complexities of cyberwarfare in 2025.

“Unified security management platforms that integrate early-warning intelligence and risk prioritization across an enterprise’s entire infrastructure will be the cornerstone of cyber defense strategies. By offering a clear, comprehensive view of security vulnerabilities, risks, and threats, organizations can make more informed decisions and mitigate risks before they materialize into full-scale attacks.”

Yevgeny Dibrov, co-founder and CEO at Armis

Cybersecurity as a Board-Level Concern

“In 2025, cybersecurity will no longer solely be a technical issue relegated to IT teams—it increasingly becomes a board-level priority. With the rising frequency and severity of cyber-attacks, boards of directors will require platforms that provide executive-level visibility into their organization’s security posture. Platforms that offer executive dashboards and comprehensive reporting will empower board-level decision-making, ensuring cybersecurity is integrated into the organization’s strategic vision, thus aligning security efforts with business goals.”

Focus on Organizational Resilience

“In an era where cyber breaches are virtually inevitable, resilience will be as important as prevention. The ability to recognize an attack early, quickly recover from a breach, and continue operations with minimal to no impact on daily operations will be a key metric of success for organizations facing increasingly sophisticated, multi-stage cyber-attacks.”

Mark Lambert, Chief Product Officer at ArmorCode

Fragmentation of tools will lead to a focus on correlation and prioritization.

“In 2025, we will continue to see an influx of new application security solution providers entering the market. The pendulum has swung back from enterprises looking for single-vendor tool platforms back to best-of-breed tools that deliver more accurate results. However, this leads to an increase in siloed data and security debt, or backlog, which teams will struggle to address. There has already been a clear shift away from viewing security as a ‘zero-sum game’ and towards a focus on ‘business risk.’ Next year, the focus will be further refined to correlate data from across these disconnected tools and focus on the vulnerabilities at the top of the pyramid from a business impact perspective – and prioritize the reduction of technical debt in the areas that matter most.”

Vulnerability chaining

“AI-powered attacks will become significantly more aggressive in 2025, with vulnerability chaining emerging as a major threat. Attackers will leverage AI for more effective vulnerability identification and rapid exploitation by chaining multiple CVEs together to launch successful attacks. Once they find a vulnerability that allows a foothold into a network or system, they will use the chain of vulnerabilities to expand deeper or laterally. This also allows attackers to game-plan their approaches in advance. It will present a greater challenge for organizations to defend themselves while providing attackers with more opportunities to achieve their objectives.”

Chris Borkenhagen, CDO/CISO at AuthenticID

Staying Ahead of Cyber Threats

“Adopting a customized and business-specific zero-trust security strategy is critical for security leaders to combat cyber threats effectively. This approach treats every access request as a potential risk, with the adoption of complex multi-factor authentication (MFA) adding an extra layer of security. Staying informed about regulatory developments paralleled with retrospective reviews of industry breach incidents can provide valuable lessons for strengthening security postures. Embracing a ‘think like a hacker’ mentality also helps identify potential vulnerabilities and enhances proactive measures against unauthorized access.”

Ameesh Divatia, Co-Founder and CEO of Baffle

“Data security posture management has been perceived by many as a way to address the prevalence of data breaches today when, in fact, it’s just monitoring by a different name. Just like monitoring, there’s a good chance that the data has already been breached when you notice the problem. In the coming year, enterprises that actually care about their data will realize that protecting the data is the only answer. Lock the data up with encryption and hold the key tight, and the hacker will look for another target to breach.

“We are seeing an explosion of ‘security posture’ management for every aspect of the IT infrastructure—network, device, application, cloud, attack surface, identity, and finally, data. The perfect analogy is a guard outside your neighborhood bank or a security desk in your office building. It is a deterrent but by no means a protector of the asset. As engineers, we believe in designing a solution, not just monitoring for bad things to happen. 2025 will see the beginning of the end of posture management and the dawn of the ‘mitigation’ era, where we do something about attacks on our assets. We protect them in a way where the effort required to steal the asset outweighs the benefit, and the hacker moves on to an easier target.”

Gaurav Banga, the Founder and CEO at Balbix

“In 2025, GenAI will be more effective than ever. It will transform and reimagine business operations completely. Many cybersecurity programs will look to the technology for growth by increasing efficiency, limiting time spent on intensive tasks, and enabling teams to do more with less across the board. This will be especially helpful for industries operating with narrow margins and increased regulatory activity, like healthcare and smaller manufacturing companies. For these companies, their bottom line is dependent on improving operational efficiencies. These efficiencies powered by GenAI can make the difference in reducing overall cyber risk, despite smaller team sizes, due to its ability to identify anomalies and risks at speed and at scale, outpacing traditional methods.

“Companies that are slow to adopt GenAI will risk becoming obsolete, while forward-thinking companies that adopt the technology across all aspects of operations will come out on top. Additionally, we’ll see an increase in specialized GenAI models, fine-tuned to specific industries and regulatory requirements, fast-tracking further GenAI adoption and implementation.”

David Wiseman, the Vice President of Secure Communications at BlackBerry

Jeffrey Wheatman, the SVP and Cyber Risk Strategist at Black Kite

There will be a rise in the vCISO and CISO consultants

“It’s no secret that there has been increased pressure on the CISO role over the past several years. From the rise of ransomware attacks, AI sparking new tactics, and more sophisticated social engineering attacks, companies now have to play good offense and defense to stay ahead of bad actors. With these pressures—plus often stretched security teams—CISOs will move out of in-house positions and into more consulting roles or vCISO roles in the coming year to better manage their workloads. If this trend comes to fruition, the impact on the industry could be immense. Having security leaders who are not in-house could create vulnerabilities or gaps in security, which can stifle organizations’ strategies and leave them open to attacks.”

There will be more shareholder action against companies that drop the cybersecurity ball

“It is not uncommon for shareholders to file lawsuits against companies for not doing ‘the right thing,’ and in 2025, we can expect to see more of this action being taken. When cyber incidents occur, they lead to substantial financial losses, regulatory fines, and damage to brand reputation—all of which directly impact shareholder value. Investors argue that neglecting cybersecurity reflects inadequate governance and risk management, especially when companies don’t prioritize safeguarding data and operational systems. In today’s threat landscape, a proactive approach to cybersecurity is essential for corporate responsibility. Shareholders will increasingly take legal action against companies that fail to implement effective cybersecurity measures, viewing it as a breach of fiduciary duty to protect assets.”

Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint

2025: The Year of Comprehensive Third-Party Risk Management in Business Continuity

“Third-party risk will dominate business continuity planning as companies rely more heavily not just on SaaS and cloud providers but also on a complex web of APIs, partner integrations, supply chains, and third-party code. This intricate network means that disruptions from any single vendor—or even a single integration—will have ripple effects across operations, potentially impacting entire supply chains and revenue. To mitigate these risks, proactive, real-time monitoring of all third-party interactions will be critical, with companies demanding full transparency and accountability on performance and recovery plans from all their critical vendors and partners.”

Digital Experience Becomes a Business Imperative, Powered by a Strong Internet Infrastructure

“Digital experience will emerge as a critical pillar of business success, supported by robust internet infrastructure. Each layer of the internet stack—DNS, APIs, CDNs, and other foundational components—will serve as the backbone of IT operations, ensuring the performance and reliability needed for an optimal digital experience. As businesses increasingly depend on seamless digital interactions, monitoring and optimizing these layers will become as essential as financial oversight. Companies will prioritize internet stack management to safeguard digital experience, recognizing it as a key driver of customer satisfaction, loyalty, and overall business growth.”

Tim Golden, CEO and Founder of Compliance Scorecard

Resource Constraints Hindering Compliance Efforts

“The ongoing shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals will exacerbate staffing challenges for MSPs, leaving teams stretched thin and under-resourced. This could hamper their ability to meet compliance demands effectively. Resource limitations may result in compliance gaps and heightened vulnerability to security breaches, making workforce development a pressing need for MSPs in 2025.”

Increased Legal Accountability and Liability

“In 2025, evolving legal frameworks will place greater responsibility on MSPs for their clients’ cybersecurity, holding them liable for security breaches and compliance lapses. This heightened accountability is set to redefine service contracts and risk management strategies. MSPs without a thorough understanding of legal obligations may find themselves vulnerable to lawsuits and significant financial losses, emphasizing the need for legal expertise in their operations.”

Sri Sreenivasan, President at ConnectSecure 

Secure Data Clouds Become Non-Negotiable for Compliance

“With compliance frameworks like CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) and stricter global regulations, secure data clouds will shift from being optional enhancements to essential infrastructure. Organizations in defense, healthcare, and other regulated industries will prioritize secure, compliant cloud solutions to meet mandatory standards and avoid penalties. Businesses not adopting these technologies risk falling behind or being excluded from critical contracts.”

Exploited Vulnerabilities Emerge as the Fastest-Growing Threat

“By 2025, exploited vulnerabilities will surpass phishing as the most rapidly growing cybersecurity threat. Attackers are increasingly automating the discovery and exploitation of unpatched systems, leaving organizations exposed. The sheer volume and sophistication of attacks will force Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to evolve, incorporating proactive vulnerability management solutions into their service offerings to protect clients and mitigate risks.”

Demand for Proactive Cybersecurity Outpaces Traditional Approaches

“As exploited vulnerabilities dominate headlines and compliance mandates intensify, businesses will demand proactive cybersecurity measures over reactive ones. MSPs that offer real-time threat detection, vulnerability assessments, and patching services will become the trusted partners of the future. The expectation will shift from simply responding to incidents to ensuring systems are continually hardened against evolving threats.”

Edward Bailey, Staff Senior Technical Evangelist at Cribl

“I believe that in late Q1 or Q2 2025, an industry trade group will file suit to challenge key Federal cybersecurity regulations. My guess is it will start with the SEC’s proposed amendments to Regulation SCI. Cybersecurity regulations created under the umbrella of the Gramm-Leach-Bliey Act are at risk as well. Healthcare cybersecurity regulations tied to reimbursements under the authority of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are another set of regulations that may be targeted.

“A federal judge will grant an injunction that stops updates to Regulation SCI. The SEC’s position is given minimal weight by the court, substituting its own expertise and judgment over the law and factual issues, overruling the SEC, and striking down the proposed rule. After 3-5 years of appeals, the issue makes its way to SCOTUS, the judgment is affirmed, and the proposed rule is dead.

“In addition, perhaps Congress responds by passing a clear set of laws that creates even more regulations, and then IT and Security teams have to scramble to comply. Meanwhile, life continues for IT and Security teams who are already overwhelmed and simply want a clear set of rules.”

David Primor, Founder and CEO at Cynomi

“2025 will redefine the cybersecurity landscape as AI evolves into a cornerstone of strategic decision-making for CISOs and security leaders. In a world where cyber threats grow in both frequency and sophistication—and where attackers increasingly deploy AI to craft adaptive and evasive attacks—defenders must adopt tools that deliver both effectiveness and efficiency.

“AI’s role will extend far beyond traditional detection and response. Advanced systems will act as strategic advisors, analyzing vast volumes of data in real-time to uncover risks, prioritize responses, and smartly automate tasks that once consumed significant time and resources. By streamlining operations and providing actionable insights, AI will free security leaders to focus on long-term planning and risk mitigation rather than firefighting.

“For enterprises, the ability to predict and neutralize threats proactively will be game-changing. AI-powered tools will identify vulnerabilities way before adversaries can exploit them. This shift will also prove vital as businesses contend with compliance demands and board-level scrutiny, where fast, accurate reporting and strategic foresight are critical. Ultimately, I believe 2025 will highlight that success lies in leveraging AI not just as a defensive tool but as a driver of smarter, faster, and more strategic cybersecurity.”

Nicole Carignan, VP of Strategic Cyber AI at Darktrace

John Bennett, CEO of Dashlane

“In 2025, AI will grow increasingly central to both cyber-attacks and defenses, driving a significant evolution in the threat landscape. The commoditization of sophisticated attack tools will make large-scale, AI-driven campaigns accessible to attackers with minimal technical expertise. At the same time, malware and phishing schemes will grow more advanced as cyber-criminals leverage AI to create highly personalized and harder-to-detect attacks tailored to individual targets.

“However, there are two sides to every coin, and AI also has a key role to play in cyber defense. Cybersecurity solutions are advancing to combat the alarming surge of large-scale AI-driven attacks. This includes more AI-discovered vulnerabilities, as well as autonomous real-time threat detection and mitigation systems, powered by predictive analytics capable of anticipating and countering attacks–even before they occur.”

Jim Broome, President and CTO at DirectDefense

Data exfiltration and extortion will eclipse ransomware as the primary threat.

“In 2025, ransomware will increasingly be used as a precursor to larger attacks, where the real threat is data exfiltration and extortion. Attackers will leverage stolen data as a bargaining tool, especially in highly regulated industries like healthcare, where companies are forced to disclose breaches. As a result, we’ll see more sophisticated ransom demands based on exfiltrated data.”

AI in cybersecurity will bolster defenses but amplify risks.

“In the coming year, organizations will face the challenge of balancing AI’s security advantages with the mounting risks it introduces. While AI strengthens threat detection and response, attackers are equally adept at harnessing its power, rendering traditional employee training methods obsolete. Common indicators of phishing, like grammatical errors and unnatural phrasing, are vanishing as generative AI and deepfakes enable more convincing and sophisticated attacks. To combat these evolving threats, businesses must continually refresh employee training and adopt advanced AI tools, such as Microsoft’s Azure sandbox, to maintain robust security control.”

TK Keanini, CTO at DNSFilter

Zero Trust

“Zero Trust will be the dominant architecture model in 2025, fully replacing outdated perimeter-based models. Security controls will focus increasingly on the workforce and workloads rather than just the workplace, leading to enhanced protection across diverse environments.”

Tools

“By 2025, many current cybersecurity tools will become outdated, as they still reflect a perimeter-based mindset. In today’s world, effective defense is necessary for every device and at every location where people live, work, and play. Organizations will need proactive tools that don’t wait for an attack to happen. Instead, these tools will run tests and simulations on themselves to ensure they can maintain operational continuity in both good times and bad. Automation will be crucial, as it must continuously test and model threats with every network change before attackers can exploit vulnerabilities.

“A key shift in cybersecurity strategies will be ‘tempo.’ As the pace of change and attacks increases, defenders must also quicken their responses. Those who don’t keep up will be vulnerable.”

Neil Jones, CISSP and Director of Cybersecurity Evangelism at Egnyte

Intersection of AI & Cybersecurity

“Recent reports indicate that nearly 100 percent of IT leaders consider AI models crucial for their business success, but only 48 percent of IT professionals are confident about their ability to execute a strategy for leveraging AI in cybersecurity. In 2025, we can anticipate the knowledge gap widening, as AI models’ technical capabilities will likely outstrip IT teams’ ability to govern their responsible use.

“The gap can be closed by providing technical teams with advanced AI training, adopting company-wide responsible AI usage policies, and encouraging users to access generative AI solutions that are formally blessed by the organization.”

Dwayne McDaniel, Developer Advocate at GitGuardian

The Cyber Resilience Act Will Reshape Software Development

“The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is poised to have a significant impact on how software is developed and secured. By mandating stricter requirements for vulnerabilities, the CRA will force organizations to reassess their development pipelines, especially in areas like secret management and secure coding practices.

“One of the most pressing vulnerabilities in modern software is the accidental exposure of sensitive information, such as API keys, tokens, and credentials, in source code. As the CRA drives stricter compliance standards, organizations will need to integrate secret detection tools directly into their CI/CD workflows. This integration will foster a stronger emphasis on security within DevSecOps, ensuring that software is both resilient and compliant from the earliest stages of development.

“For businesses, this represents both a challenge and an opportunity. Those that adapt quickly to the CRA’s requirements will not only reduce their risk of breaches but also demonstrate leadership in secure software practices—a critical factor in maintaining trust with customers and partners in regulated markets.”

Attila Török, CISO at GoTo

GenAI will be an asset, not an adversary, for CISOs

“AI tools have been a double-edged sword from a security standpoint ever since their first public availability, but the focus for CISOs in 2025 should be viewing AI as an asset rather than an adversary. As these tools continue to evolve, they should be integrated into security operations to improve threat detection, response times, and predictive analytics on an ongoing basis. In a slow market, this is a material, pragmatic way to demonstrate ROI while keeping pace with the evolving threat landscape.”

Chris Scheels, VP of Product Marketing at Gurucul

Organizations will increasingly turn to AI to power improved security posture.

“AI-powered threat hunting will play a crucial role in detecting and responding to advanced threats. As AI models continue to evolve, they will be able to identify sophisticated attacks that traditional methods might miss. By automating routine tasks and recommending effective response strategies, AI can significantly reduce the impact of security incidents and improve overall security posture.”

Automation becomes a must in SecOps.

“The increasing volume and complexity of data necessitate automation in security operations. By optimizing data ingestion and leveraging advanced machine learning models, organizations can efficiently analyze critical data, detect emerging threats, and automate routine tasks. This allows our security teams to focus on high-priority incidents, reducing response times and minimizing potential damage.”

The skills gap will drive MSSP growth.

“A continued and increased demand for managed security services from small and mid-sized businesses will continue in 2025. A significant factor driving this growth is the shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals. This makes these organizations more vulnerable to cyber-attacks, including ransomware. As cyber threats evolve and become increasingly sophisticated, the need for managed security solutions will remain strong.”

Houbing Herbert Song, IEEE Fellow

Neuro-symbolic AI for Cybersecurity: The Enabler of Cybersecurity Threat Early Detection and Rapid Response

“The top cybersecurity threats emerging in 2025 are AI-powered cyber-attacks, which are characterized by their ability to learn and adapt to new defenses. In fact, according to “The Impact of Technology in 2025 and Beyond: an IEEE Global Study,” 48 percent of experts said a top potential use for AI is real-time cybersecurity vulnerability identification and attack prevention. In 2025, AI-powered cyber-attacks are expected to be more believable and less detectable. For example, deepfakes will continue to impact every aspect of our society, from personal to business to politics. AI can be leveraged by attackers to carry out more sophisticated and effective cyber-attacks. For example, with AI-enhanced social engineering, AI can assist in analyzing and predicting human behavior, allowing hackers to craft more convincing social engineering attacks that exploit psychological factors.

“The emerging trends in cybersecurity defense in 2025 will be establishing trust in cybersecurity defense and ensuring trustworthiness in cybersecurity defense towards a secure cyberspace. AI is the enabler of cybersecurity threat early detection and rapid response. AI can help solve complex security challenges by assisting human system managers with automated monitoring, analysis, and responses to cybersecurity attacks. Predictive analytics is an invaluable stepping stone in applying AI for cybersecurity. More specifically, neuro-symbolic AI, which integrates neural networks with symbolic representations, is a game changer by enabling high levels of trust in cybersecurity threat early detection and rapid response. Zero trust is expected to be the unquestioned gold standard of cybersecurity.”

Theodore Krantz Jr., CEO of interos.ai

Attack surface security risk in supply chains.

“As global interconnectivity deepens, the scale and speed of cyber breaches ripple across the globe quicker than ever, amplifying the ‘blast radius’ of attacks. In the first 10 months of 2024, 15,137 companies were impacted by reported cyber-attacks, according to interos data. This multiplied out to 1.3 million tier 1 suppliers, 3.1 million tier 2 suppliers, and 3.8 million tier 3 suppliers. As today’s supply chains rely more heavily on networks with many tiers of suppliers, the expanded attack surface of businesses must be approached with more diligence.

“In 2025, organizations must adopt advanced attack surface management strategies to gain visibility into their entire supplier networks to fully assess their exposure to cyber-attacks. These strategies include uncovering hidden supplier relationships, evaluating the cyber vulnerabilities of both direct and sub-tier suppliers, and assessing a broad spectrum of risk categories. Companies will also focus on identifying over-reliance on single suppliers and visualizing geographic clusters to mitigate cyber risks when they are impacted. By embracing these measures in the upcoming year, organizations can reduce their exposure to cyber threats, protect their digital supply chains, and ensure resilience in an era of ever-expanding cyber-attack surfaces.”

Itai Tevet, CEO and co-founder of Intezer

“In the past couple of years, we’ve seen AI used to automate many aspects of cybersecurity. That’s great because we know that attackers are using AI, too, but there will also be some unintended consequences that we need to address. AI typically automates tasks that entry-level employees tend to have and that prevents those employees from getting the skills they need to move into other roles—it’s going to exacerbate the existing cybersecurity talent shortage. It’s something that we are already seeing in the sales world with AI automating much of what entry-level SDRs do in their day-to-day. We are going to need to get ahead of this by rethinking training and education for cybersecurity professionals.”

Marc Gaffan, CEO at IONIX

Breaking Security Silos: The Rise of Unified Cybersecurity Platforms

“By 2025, the cybersecurity market will experience a significant shift toward unified security platforms that dissolve the traditional silos between on-premises, cloud and emerging technologies like AI. Organizations will increasingly adopt solutions that offer cross-environment visibility and management, enabling them to better assess and mitigate actual cyber risks. This convergence will lead to more efficient resource allocation and a more cohesive security posture across all technology stacks.”

Evolution of EASM: From Asset Discovery to Comprehensive Exposure Management

“External Attack Surface Management (EASM) will evolve beyond basic discovery and inventory of externally facing assets. In 2025, the market will demand EASM solutions that provide validation, prioritization, and optimization of security exposures. This evolution will align with analyst perspectives and will see EASM functionalities transition to a focus on exposing validated risks across Vulnerability Management and Posture Management tools.”

Shift from Vulnerability CVEs and CVSS scores to Exploitability

“The industry will move away from prioritizing vulnerabilities based solely on their CVSS scores and the like and will instead focus on their exploitability and potential business impact. By 2025, cybersecurity strategies will emphasize contextual risk assessment, combining vulnerability data with exposure insights to identify the most critical threats. This shift will lead to more effective remediation efforts, ensuring that security teams address issues that pose the greatest risk to the organization rather than being overwhelmed by sheer vulnerability counts.”

Paige Schaffer, CEO of Iris Powered by Generali

“Advancements in AI have already allowed criminals to create highly convincing deepfake content, opening the door for new forms of deception and fraud. In particular, deepfakes could be used by scammers to trick victims into handing over money by impersonating a trusted friend or family member. On the business side, deepfake technology can also be used in elaborate social engineering schemes.”

Greg Parker, Global VP, Security and Fire, Life Cycle Management at Johnson Controls

“As cyber and physical security increasingly intersect, zero-trust architectures will be essential to safeguard access and mitigate vulnerabilities. Organizations must ensure all users, devices and systems are verified continuously with robust access controls to prevent unauthorized intrusions into physical security systems. I anticipate zero trust becoming the industry standard, especially for facilities leveraging IoT and cloud-based solutions, where the stakes for security and operational continuity are higher than ever.

“Managed services that monitor and optimize physical assets throughout their lifecycle will be table stakes. This includes critical functions like firmware updates, system health monitoring, and ensuring proper functionality. Predictive maintenance powered by AI will play a pivotal role in addressing vulnerabilities proactively, minimizing downtime and costs while bolstering security. The growing interconnectivity of building management systems brings new risks, including unvetted device access and limited visibility into system components. In 2025, facility managers need a layered risk management strategy that incorporates tiered system criticality, comprehensive remediation plans, and continuous auditing.”

Elad Schulman, CEO and co-founder of Lasso Security

Tempering the Rise of RAG Threats

“Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models with facts fetched from external sources, enabling users to check claims, which, in turn, builds trust. Attacks on RAG pipelines have been optimized to boost the ranking of malicious documents during the retrieval phase, now making Vector and Embedding Weaknesses one of OWASP’s top 10 use cases for LLM Security.

“Rather than relying solely on static permissions, more dynamic methods such as Context-Based Access Control (CBAC) will come into play. CBAC evaluates the context of both the request and the response, incorporating the user’s role and behavioral patterns, the specifics of the query, and the relevance and sensitivity of the retrieved data. When necessary, CBAC blocks sensitive or out-of-scope information.”

Andrew Harding, VP of Security Strategy at Menlo Security

Cyber-criminals will up the ante on browser-based attacks to deploy ransomware, targeting critical infrastructure in particular.

“Cyber-criminals will leverage browser-based attacks to deploy ransomware, targeting critical infrastructure sectors like healthcare, energy, and transportation. This shift will bypass traditional network defenses, making it easier for attackers to infiltrate systems and encrypt sensitive data. We have seen this trend developing during 2024, with about one significant confirmed browser exploit each month. To mitigate this risk, organizations must prioritize browser security, implement robust security measures, and stay updated on the latest threat intelligence.”

Insider threats will proliferate as widespread remote and hybrid work environments exacerbate risk.

“Insider threats will increasingly originate from well-intentioned users who fall victim to sophisticated targeted attacks. The persistence of widespread remote and hybrid work environments will exacerbate this risk. To combat this emerging threat, new tools and technologies will emerge to assist users, removing the burden of identifying and mitigating potential risks on their own. These tools will detect malicious activity and operate far beyond the capacity of manual human analysis.”

Devin Ertel, CISO at Menlo Security

AI Will Give Certain Security Functions a Boost

“Although there are many functions that AI can’t fully automate or take over, I predict that AI is going to start doing more of the heavy lifting when it comes to security in the coming year. Security tooling will incorporate more AI, helping with defenses that are cumbersome and leave too much room for human mistakes. Organizations will leverage AI to level out their Security Operations Centers (SOCs) so that they don’t need as many resources to run them. This also will free up time for junior security professionals to learn new skills, take on new responsibilities, and generally level up their careers.

“While overall, this trend will be highly positive for cybersecurity teams, we do need to be cautious about how we leverage AI and grant it access to sensitive data and systems. As organizations start to spin up their own AI models and engines, they need to think about how to protect them. Unsecured or unchecked AI could wreak havoc on organizations. For example, chatbots such as Google’s Gemini are powerful tools, but we need to be cognizant of how it touches sensitive customer or employee data. Whether using a tool like Gemini or a propriety internally-built model, security leaders will need to rethink their approach to access privileges in the context of AI tools in 2025.”

Attacks Incorporating Deepfakes Will Have CISOs on High Alert

Seth Spergel, Managing Partner at Merlin Ventures

The Best Use Cases for AI will be Blended With Humans

“As a VC firm specializing in cybersecurity innovation, we (like every VC in every segment) have observed a huge influx in startups touting AI technology–to varying levels of success. It’s easy to get lost in a sea of undifferentiated solutions touting AI as a cybersecurity panacea.  Instead, we look for companies that have a clear vision and use case for how AI can help make humans more effective, productive, and/or efficient and are poised to make a meaningful contribution to the cybersecurity community.

“When considering AI innovations, I like to use the Iron Man analogy. On its own, Iron Man’s suit has some pretty cool functions. But to truly have an impact, the suit needs Tony Stark inside. He’s the one with the vision of what needs to be accomplished and how. Today, our best AI models still need human oversight and input, but together, AI and humans can accomplish far more than they could on their own. AI technology can significantly offset the burden on humans when it comes to more mundane tasks like data cleansing and basic correlation, freeing up skilled operators to tackle higher-value projects while making more informed decisions.

Jeremy Ventura, Field CISO at Myriad360

Cybersecurity Workforce Challenges Will Persist

“The talent gap in cybersecurity will remain a pressing issue in 2025, with organizations struggling to find and retain skilled professionals. As threats continue to evolve in sophistication, companies will need to prioritize upskilling existing teams, leverage automation and AI, and explore alternative talent pipelines to mitigate workforce shortages.”

The Evolving Role of the CISO

“In 2025, the role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) will extend far beyond just technical skills, emphasizing people skills, business acumen, and financial knowledge. As security increasingly becomes a business enabler, CISOs will need to communicate risk in terms of business and revenue impact, fostering collaboration with leadership to drive informed decision-making.”

Mike Arrowsmith, Chief Trust Officer at NinjaOne

Paul Laudanski, Director of Security Research at Onapsis

New year, same vulnerabilities

“The threat landscape is only getting bigger; the vulnerabilities security teams are facing are the same ones we continue to see every year. Organizations are still not prioritizing securing their business-critical applications and, therefore, often end up in the same situations. Vulnerabilities, old and new, are continuously being leveraged to get through the Internet of Things devices, firewalls, and VPNs. Once threat actors enter an organization’s systems, they go after the most valuable information, which is stored in business-critical applications.

“If nothing changes in 2025, companies will continue to battle these typical, preventable vulnerabilities and put their customer’s data at great risk. When crafting goals for 2025, leaders need to evaluate where security is on their priority list and how they can best combat these threats.”

Balaji Ganesan, co-founder and CEO of Privacera

“As we enter 2025, the urgency to fortify foundational data security becomes even more pronounced. With the evolution of AI technologies, organizations must prioritize data security significantly. A risk-based approach, which involves identifying data, its location, access permissions, and potential vulnerabilities, remains critical to maintaining security in complex data environments. The statistics from 2023 and 2024 serve as a stark reminder of the consequences of data breaches, with the United States facing 3,205 data breaches that exposed over 353 million individuals and reporting the highest average cost of a data breach globally at $9.36 million (IBM: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024).

Itamar Golan, Co-Founder and CEO at Prompt Security

Regulatory Environment

“The regulatory landscape for AI is developing along divergent paths globally. The European Union is taking a risk-based approach to AI through the EU AI Act, implementing comprehensive regulatory frameworks. In contrast, I expect the United States to adopt a more permissive approach under potential libertarian economic policies, allowing for greater flexibility in AI development and deployment, emphasizing national security and economic competition with China.”

Rahul Powar, Founder and CEO at Red Sift

“In 2025, we expect Microsoft will follow suit with Google and Yahoo’s stringent bulk sender email authentication requirements, creating a unified front among major email providers. This means implementing the basics of email security standards such as DMARC, SPF, and DKIM are no longer optional, but are vital protocols for every business moving forward. Bulk sender requirements are very much just the stepping stone towards enforcement, and it is essential that businesses implement effective tools to stay ahead of new regulations rather than being left to catch up.

“Take, for example, the rapid increase in sophisticated attacks in 2024—such as the SubdoMailing threat—bypassing reliant security measures like DMARC. This new method allowed bad actors to mount phishing campaigns and distribute malware through poor DNS hygiene and is a continued problem for known brands. Accessed through passive DNS records, this type of threat is already one step ahead of security standards brought in under bulk sender requirements, so how can businesses stay protected?

“The key in 2025 will be enabling full visibility over an organization’s digital estate; one example in the case of SubdoMailing is having a clear overview of all your domains and subdomains, auditing, and taking action against compromised records to prevent future attacks. Only by implementing the best email security solutions can businesses ensure they are doing everything they can to prevent costly and damaging threats. Those who fail to adapt can not ensure for certain that they are in full control, creating significant risks to their brand integrity and customer trust.”

Cynthia Overby, Director of Security at Rocket Software

“Over 50 percent of CISOs will start using AI and Machine Learning (ML) in security software solutions in 2025 as they believe generative AI will fill security skills gaps and are also excited about the possibility that it can strengthen cyber defense. Certain AI tools and technologies are viable to meet these requirements, but the term ‘AI-enabled’ is, in most cases, marketing hype. This may lead to negative connotations that could hurt security products that are truly AI-enabled.”

Attackers will significantly impact global business systems and operations.

“Insurance and financial systems will continue to be focal points for attacks, but in 2025, we can expect critical infrastructure operations and corporate data to become a higher priority for nation-state threat actors. These attacks will no longer focus on Ransomware using forward-facing web applications but instead on power grids and corporate data stored on critical hardware. The lack of knowledgeable resources to manage security across an enterprise and the lack of understanding and maturity around critical infrastructure vulnerability management within the C-level community will make for easy targets.”

Eric Schwake, Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Salt Security

“In 2025, the cybersecurity landscape will continue to evolve rapidly, with a growing focus on API security. As APIs become essential to business operations and digital transformation efforts, they will likely become prime targets for attackers. We anticipate a rise in sophisticated API attacks using automation, artificial intelligence, and advanced evasion techniques to exploit vulnerabilities and bypass traditional security measures. One significant risk will stem from the exploitation of API misconfigurations, which often occur due to the fast pace of development and deployment. This situation will challenge organizations to adopt a more proactive and comprehensive approach to API security.

“To stay competitive, businesses must prioritize API security, recognizing that APIs have become crucial IT assets requiring the same scrutiny and protection as any other valuable resource. This involves implementing robust API posture governance to ensure consistent security configurations and reduce vulnerabilities to lower risk. AI-powered API security solutions, particularly those with strong behavioral threat detection capabilities, are essential for identifying and responding to sophisticated threats in real-time. These solutions can analyze vast amounts of API traffic and highlight genuinely malicious activities within the overwhelming amount of anomalous traffic that might otherwise go unnoticed. By proactively addressing API security challenges, businesses can safeguard their critical assets and ensure the ongoing success of their digital initiatives in the face of evolving threats.”

Avani Desai, CEO of Schellman

AI-Driven Cyber Threats on the Rise

“The biggest cyber threats in 2025 will stem from increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven attacks. As AI evolves at breakneck speed, attackers are deploying machine learning models that adapt, disguise themselves, and evade traditional defenses in real-time. This creates a constant race between defensive and offensive AI technologies, making it harder to detect and combat cyber threats.”

Emergence of Autonomous Malware 

“One under-the-radar development is the rise of autonomous malware. Unlike traditional malware, this next generation can operate independently, learning to bypass security measures as it moves through systems. These self-sustaining attacks refine themselves at each step, presenting a profound challenge for cybersecurity defenses. Few are prepared for this shift, but it has the potential to reshape the entire cybersecurity landscape.”

Pieter Danhieux, co-founder and CEO of Secure Code Warrior

Understanding Shifts in the Regulatory Landscape

“The critical infrastructure industry has, at least in the United States, the UK, and Australia, seen some specific recommendations around how digital risk is managed, and in this age of high tensions in multiple regions, as well as a significant increase in Nation-sponsored cyber-attacks, these trends show no signs of ceasing in 2025, and this vertical in particular will be hit hard. I expect to see more legislative changes in this area very soon, and across other sectors. With NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act just being introduced in Europe, we’ll be shortly seeing that any connected consumer product will face much greater scrutiny, especially in terms of Secure-by-Design and software weaknesses.

“This is likely to result in vendors who can prove compliance with specific security mandates and adhere to government-informed guidelines and best practices being viewed as more trustworthy and desirable to partner with, as opposed to those who take these initiatives less seriously. It may also result in their internal security culture changing to adopt more enforced secure development practices overall.”

AI Tools’ Security Standing Will be a Key Measurement for Developers

“Right now, it’s a free-for-all market in terms of LLM-powered coding tools. New additions are popping up all the time, each boasting better output, security, and productivity. As we head into 2025, we need a standard by which each AI tool can be benchmarked and assessed for its security standing. This includes coding capabilities, namely its ability to generate code with good, safe coding patterns that cannot be exploited by threat actors.”

Lou Fiorello, VP and GM of Security Products at ServiceNow

“In 2025, GenAI will reshape the way security teams operate, moving beyond task automation to providing actionable insights that enhance decision-making. This will reduce burnout from manual, repetitive work and allow teams to focus on proactive threat management. As attack sophistication grows, GenAI will serve as a key enabler for faster response times and a stronger, more adaptive security posture.

Additionally, the rapid growth of attack surfaces—from on-premise to the cloud, APIs, operational technology, and more—will push organizations toward unified platforms. These platforms will provide a single source of truth across all environments, enabling businesses to identify risks more clearly and manage them more effectively. In 2025, platforms that integrate vulnerability management with enterprise data foundations, such as CMDBs, will become essential for maintaining end-to-end visibility and control.”

Chen Burshan, CEO of Skyhawk Security

Security teams will need to invest in increased AI automation to stop threats at machine speed.

“The highly publicized cybersecurity skills gap and overwhelming workload mean security teams MUST use automation to have a chance at securing their cloud. However, how can they be sure that alerts that are flagged REALLY pose a risk to their cloud environments and that automation won’t impact production by increasing false positives? This is where an AI-based rehearsal is going to be imperative (in the new year and beyond) to move forward with leveraging automation. We expect to see increased adoption of AI-based simulation twins, which simulate threats to determine whether they have the potential to reach critical business assets. This will increase confidence in the SOC. These AI tools will also rehearse automated responses to increase cloud threat detection and response (CDR) efficiency. Automation can also respond at machine speed, much faster than the SOC analyst.”

Security teams will need to invest in increased automation to stop threats at machine speed.

“The skills gap and overwhelming workload mean security teams MUST use automation in order to have a chance at securing their cloud. However, how can they be sure that the alert is really an alert and that the automation will not impact production? This is where an AI-based rehearsal is going to be imperative in order to move forward with leveraging automation. An AI-based simulation twin simulates the threat, so the SOC knows it is, in fact, a threat, and the automated response is also rehearsed, ensuring this response stops the threat and does not impact production. Automation can also respond at machine speed, much faster than the SOC analyst.”

Ravi Bindra, CISO of SoftwareOne

Evolving CISO role

“The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has been rewritten in the past years.  CISOs once worked in a siloed fashion without a seat at the boardroom table. Today, however, they are the bridge between the C-Suite and the entire company, charged with delivering cybersecurity resilience.  In 2025, CISOs can expect their role and responsibilities to keep expanding as enterprise risks grow in both numbers and complexity. Next year, cyber-crime is expected to cost $10.5 trillion a year globally, a staggering figure that explains why the CISO’s role has shifted from tactical to strategic with a need to firmly align cybersecurity solutions with business goals.

Chris Ortbals, Chief Product Officer at Tangoe

Mobile and SaaS Environments Will Face Heightened Security Threats

“AI and quantum-powered attacks will target mobile devices and SaaS platforms, exploiting gaps in endpoint security and third-party integrations. Social engineering attacks, AI-enhanced phishing, and deepfake scams will exploit mobile vulnerabilities and unsecured third-party APIs. Organizations that prioritize endpoint security and SaaS control will be better positioned to protect their assets and maintain client trust.

“Implement Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) and strict SaaS monitoring policies. Audit user access regularly, ensuring former employees and third-party providers have no residual permissions. 2025 will be a pivotal year for AI, with enterprises embracing its transformative potential while navigating financial, ethical, and security risks. By adopting forward-thinking strategies—such as robust cost management, quantum-safe cryptography, and comprehensive AI governance frameworks—IT leaders can ensure sustainable innovation and a competitive edge in the AI-driven future.”

Ratan Tipirneni, President and CEO at Tigera

Open Source LLM vs. Subscription-Based: Who Will Win in 2025?

“Meta changed the rules of the Large Language Model (LLM) game by open-sourcing their model, Llama. Now, Meta is on track to have the most widely deployed chatbot in the world by the end of the calendar year 2024, despite OpenAI’s initial leadership with ChatGPT.

“As the GenAI race heats up and more native artificial intelligence Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) emerge, open-source models will continue experiencing exponential growth. ISVs will adopt an open-source model like Llama instead of building on top of a model with a licensing fee involved. Ecosystems will form around open-source LLMs, and they will gain critical mass.”

Mark Wojtasiak, Vice President of Product Marketing at Vectra AI

Disillusionment Around AI’s Promise in Cybersecurity Will Push Vendors to Focus on Demonstrating Value

“In the coming year, we’ll see the initial excitement that surrounded AI’s potential in cybersecurity start to give way due to a growing sense of disillusionment among security leaders. While AI adoption is on the rise–89 percent plan to use more AI tools in the coming year–there is still cautious optimism within the industry. Many practitioners worry that adding more AI tools could create more work, and as a result, vendors will need to focus on demonstrating value and proving ROI. Vendors will no longer be able to rely on generic promises of ‘AI-driven security’ to make sales. Instead, they will need to demonstrate tangible outcomes, such as reduced time to detect threats, improved signal accuracy, or measurable reductions around time spent chasing alerts and managing tools.”

Chris Wysopal, the Chief Security Evangelist and Founder of Veracode

GenAI-driven Coding Will Saddle Organizations with More Security Debt

“As AI-fueled code velocity increases, the number of vulnerabilities and level of critical security debt will also grow. With more code created at a rapid pace, developers will become inundated with compliance risks, security alerts, and quality issues. Identifying a solution to help will be key. As security debt grows, so too will the demand for automated security remediation, however using GenAI to write code is still two years ahead of using the same technology for security hardening and remediation. This is why, in 2025, we can expect a rapid increase in the adoption of AI-powered remediation to fix vulnerabilities faster and materially reduce security debt.”

Ben Kliger, CEO and co-founder of Zenity

The rise of Agentic AI will require a rethinking of security strategy 

“Generative AI is quickly moving beyond the capabilities of consumer-first tools like ChatGPT into Agentic AI for the enterprise. AI agents are designed to process information in a new way to make dynamic and autonomous decisions. However, organizations looking to leverage the promise of Agentic AI need to be wary of the security ramifications. They can do so by going beyond analyzing prompts and responses by monitoring and profiling how each AI Agent operates behind the scenes. Given the widespread access these Agents have to sensitive information, this holistic approach can prevent direct and indirect prompt injection attacks, as well as help to manage data leakage risks. Staying secure amid new threats will require security teams to work with the business not as a blocker but as an enabler. ”

Nicolás Chiaraviglio, the Chief Scientist at Zimperium

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Rapid7 is part of an exclusive webinar series for enterprise business software users. This event will feature an hour-long discussion and software demo to help viewers improve their exposure management processes.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive, expert webinar events for industry professionals across the enterprise technology and MarTech fields. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, Expert Webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers in enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people visit Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with Rapid7, a cybersecurity solution provider focused on helping global organizations teams reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, shut down attacks, and automate routine tasks. The hour-long webinar will show viewers how to unlock broader visibility across their ecosystem to improve their ability to identify security gaps, discover shadow IT, and accelerate their prioritization and remediation activities. Alongside a live software demo, the webinar will feature a Q&A section with Jon Schipp, the Senior Director of Product Management at Rapid7.

Speakers

Jon Schipp is the Senior Director of Product Management at Rapid7. In his fifteen years of industry experience, Schipp has been involved in everything from security engineering to incident response, software engineering, and business ownership. In his current role at Rapid7, he focuses on the Attack Surface (CAASM, EASM, etc.) and broader Exposure Management solutions.

About Rapid7

Rapid7 is a cybersecurity solution provider that offers several platform exposure management and detection and response use cases. Its solution suite includes SIEM, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, attack-surface management, application security testing, cloud-native application protection, and other capabilities engineered to help companies reduce vulnerabilities.

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