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The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a landmark regulation designed to enhance the digital resilience of financial institutions in the EU. Effective from January 17, 2025, DORA mandates the development and maintenance of a robust ICT risk management framework. Here’s an overview of the five pillars and how the right software security measures can help you comply.

In today’s digital age, as organizations modernize their applications and infrastructure by embracing hybrid cloud environments, API-centric architectures, and AI-driven technologies to enhance customer experiences and productivity, they also face an unprecedented increase in cyber threats aimed at disrupting their operations.

A recent report reveals that 98% of businesses struggle with growing complexity in their cloud and on-premises infrastructures. This complexity creates major network flow analysis challenges. Organizations report widening visibility gaps in their networks 80% of the time. The network flow problems have become more critical than ever before. Gartner’s prediction shows that by 2027, 75% of employees will use technologies their IT teams cannot see.

Two newcomers have made their way onto the ransomware threat group stage, becoming the biggest threat to the energy and utilities sector in 2025. According to the most recent data from Trustwave SpiderLabs’ Energy and Utilities Sector Deep Dive: Ransomware Threat Groups, Hunters International and Qilin (pronounced Chee Lin) displaced LockBit as the most active group attacking these sectors.

For security teams, resolving a cloud incident takes an average of 10 days — time attackers can exploit to cause further damage. The problem? SOCs often lack the context and cloud security automation they need to respond faster. That’s where the partnership between Torq and Sweet Security changes the game.

Data breaches continue to cost organizations millions of dollars each year, with costs rising steadily. According to IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average cost of a data breach has surged to $4.88 million globally, reflecting the increasing complexity and sophistication of cyberattacks.

WatchGuard Senior Product Marketing Manager Stephen Helm discusses how XDR can harness AI across your entire IT environment – correlating data from networks, Cloud services, VPN logs, and more into a single, AI-driven security framework. Cyber threats are evolving fast, and your clients rely on you to stay ahead.

During 2024’s Birthday Week, we launched an AI bot & crawler traffic graph on Cloudflare Radar that provides visibility into which bots and crawlers are the most aggressive and have the highest volume of requests, which crawl on a regular basis, and more. Today, we are launching a new dedicated “AI Insights” page on Cloudflare Radar that incorporates this graph and builds on it with additional metrics that you can use to understand AI-related trends from multiple perspectives.

The majority of global organizations say they have been negatively impacted by a breach in their supply chain. In our latest survey, 81% of global organizations reported being negatively impacted by a third-party cyber breach.

Cyber Awareness/Data Privacy Week 2025 has once again come and gone, and provides a stark reminder to take a closer look at your organization’s approach to cybersecurity. This annual event is not only a call to action for IT professionals but also a critical learning opportunity for everyday office workers. With cyber threats evolving daily, safeguarding your organization’s data is everyone’s collective responsibility.