With the announcement of Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, we, as developers and cybersecurity practitioners, find ourselves wondering – is the new model any better at generating secure code? We commission the model to generate a classic CRUD application with the following prompt: The model generates several files of code in one artifact, which the user can manually copy and organize according to the file tree suggested by Claude alongside the main artifact.

As the manufacturing industry modernizes and expands its digital connectivity, it has become increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyberattacks targeting its evolving cyber defenses. In the newly released 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Manufacturing Sector, Trustwave SpiderLabs outlines the key cybersecurity challenges facing manufacturers and provides a comprehensive list of mitigation strategies to help organizations strengthen their defenses.

As cyber threats evolve in scale and sophistication, governments and regulatory bodies are tightening cybersecurity and data protection regulations. Compliance is not only about avoiding fines but also about building trust, enhancing operational resilience, and safeguarding long-term business success. Data breaches and cyberattacks can disrupt operations and as such, organisations should prioritise compliance to mitigate financial and legal risks whilst fostering customer confidence.

As the manufacturing sector continues to modernize and develop deeper and wider connections to the Internet, the industry has opened itself up to a broad range of sophisticated cyberattacks designed to take advantage of this sector’s still-developing cyber defenses. Trustwave SpiderLabs explains these and other issues facing manufacturers in its just released 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Manufacturing Sector, and offers a list of protective mitigations organizations can adopt.

The role of trust for both employees and customers has come under increased scrutiny in the past decade. The rise of concepts such as zero trust for the workforce and the privacy/personalisation paradox for customers has moved trust from being an exercise in academic rigour, to one which has realigned enterprise security architecture choices.

The ability to control and monitor who has access to critical systems is a fundamental pillar of cybersecurity. However, many organizations today struggle with fragmented identity management, leaving their operational technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), and/or cyber physical systems (CPS) environments vulnerable to security breaches, compliance violations, unnecessary business risks, and operational inefficiencies.

Please see part Part I for our introduction to leveraging AI in the enterprise and Part II for why the legacy landscape falls short in the age of GenAI.