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Tomorrow marks my last workday of 2024. The #cybersecurity industry went through a lot over the last 12 months. We saw the advent of AI as an adversarial tool used by attackers. We saw the rise of identity-based attacks and compromise of legitimate credentials, over hacking in. We saw the push and pull between the desire for best-of-breed, with the need to consolidate and simplify the cyber toolchain with "platforms." We saw the unprecedented evolution of data protection, long viewed as an expensive insurance policy, to a strategic C-Suite priority spanning a growing range of capabilities encompassing cyber-resilience. We saw the CrowdStrike outage, which reminded us amidst all of this hype that there are still outages to plan for, beyond cyber-attacks. ...to name just a few. What will 2025 hold? AI use cases will continue to mature, across the board. For attackers, for defenders, for business use cases outside of security. Expect urgency to grow around adopting quantum-safe cryptography. The new U.S. Presidential Administration will influence policy for regulations, handling nation-state attackers, and nurturing private sector IP development and collaboration with public sector agencies. Cloud infrastructure, IoT devices and critical infrastructure will remain key targets, fueling investment in their protection. Jut a few top-of-mind musings to close out the year. My next The Futurum Group Analyst Insight Report will cover these and other topics in more detail, and I'm already looking forward to digging in. Until then. I'd love to read your hot takes on the future of security in the comments. And wishing everyone a happy and healthy Holiday Season and New Year 💫 [For tax, photo from my last work trip of the year: Tree near NYC's Penn Station]