Cybersecurity teams must adapt their approaches in the wake of a dramatically changing threat landscape, according to expert speakers at the Google Cloud Next 2025 event.
This changing threat landscape has been driven by four primary factors:
- An increasing volume of cybercriminal actors
- Growing geopolitical tensions resulting in more malicious nation state activity
- New cybersecurity and data protection regulations
- Rapid developments in new technologies, such as AI
Matt Rowe, Chief Security Officer at Lloyds Banking Group, said that this reality means “everything we do in terms of the work of security has to change.”
Here are the top five areas security leaders should focus on in this new environment.
Secure Your Blind Spots
Sandra Joyce, VP of Google Threat Intelligence, explained that there is a growing trend of threat actors targeting the “visibility gap” in organizations – those devices that often do not support security tools like EDR. These include firewalls, virtualization platforms and VPN solutions.
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