Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

A few years ago, I was sitting across from a security leader at a large enterprise. They had just deployed their first wave of AI agents. When I asked how they were thinking about the security of it, they paused for a moment and then said something I haven’t forgotten. I felt that. Not just as a researcher, but as someone who had been in enough of those rooms to know it was not one person’s gap. It was the whole industry’s gap.

Security incidents are rising with each passing year. The global cost of cybersecurity incidents was $10.5 trillion at the end of 2025. It is projected that data breaches will increase by 40% in 2026, as reported in SentinelOne. Security incidents are no longer isolated events. Many organizations use security systems such as SIEMs, EDRs, and identity telemetry, which generate alerts based on detection logic. While some controls can block the activity, others may allow it to continue undetected.

This year marks a pivotal shift in global cybersecurity regulation. Mandatory cyber incident reporting is no longer a recommendation—it is a legal obligation. Across major jurisdictions, regulations such as the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), the NIS2 Directive, and the U.S. Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) are introducing strict reporting timelines, expanded scope, and significant penalties for non-compliance.

There’s no infrastructure that’s always on and immune to all kinds of threats. Even the top providers leave a tiny margin in their Service Level Agreements (SLA), stating 99.999% uptime at most. The cloud, advertised as the universal cure for the problems of legacy on-premises setups, also turned out vulnerable. The most obvious and impactful manifestations of cloud vulnerability are cloud outages.

The assumption that you’re ‘too big to fail’ or ‘too small to get noticed’ simply doesn’t hold water anymore. The year 2025 showed us once again that even the largest names on the market are not invincible. The same is true for any company that depends on their infrastructures. Without a real Plan B, your business’s reliance on cloud tech giants might be risky.