CISO Talk by James Azar

CISO Talk by James Azar

2025’s Defining Cybersecurity Stories

From billion-pound losses to leadership vacuums, AI-accelerated crime, and the collapse of old assumptions about cyber risk

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James Azar
Jan 03, 2026
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The year 2025 will not be remembered for novelty in cyberattacks. It will be remembered for scale, consequence, and exposure of systemic weakness.

Cybersecurity didn’t surprise us in 2025.
It exposed us.

This was the year when long-discussed risks finally showed their teeth — not in theory, but in production shutdowns, collapsed retail margins, government …

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