Forrester Predictions 2025: Security And Risk Pros Will Brace For Regulations And Resilience
With cybercrime expected to cost $12 trillion in 2025, regulators will take a more active role in protecting consumer data while organizations pivot to adopt more proactive security measures to limit material impacts. This year’s cybersecurity, risk, and privacy predictions from Forrester for 2025 reflect how organizations need to evolve to address these emerging risk domains.
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The U.S. has been hit by two major cyber attacks in recent months. Some warn there are more to come. Microsoft announced last week that its popular email system had been compromised. Contessa Brewer joins ‘The News with Shepard Smith’ to discuss.
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Top 10 Biggest Cyber Attacks, Data Breaches and Ransomware Attacks of 2024
1. Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack
2. Snowflake Ransomware Attack
3. UK MoD Data Breach
4. Ascension Ransomware Attack
5. MediSecure Data Breach
6. Synnovis-NHS UK Ransomware Attack
7. CrowdStrike-Microsoft Outage
8. TfL Cyber Attack
9. Ivanti Mass Zero-Day Exploits
10. Salt Typhoon Attacks
10. Salt Typhoon Telecom Attacks: 2024 ended with a bang for the US and global telecom sector. Alleged Chinese-backed state hackers, Salt Typhoon, intensified their cyber espionage efforts targetting major U.S. telecommunications companies, including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Lumen Technologies in December 2024. The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warner, has called these attacks the “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history”. These intrusions granted the hackers access to sensitive data, such as call and text metadata, geolocation information, and, in certain cases, actual audio recordings of phone conversations. Notably, high-profile individuals, including political figures like Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, were among those affected.