Cybersecurity: Emerging Threats 2025

The Cyber threat landscape continues to escalate. Cybercriminals exploit technological advancements and specifically target security vulnerabilities. Companies must adapt their security strategies to protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Thousands of media reports about wars, crime in the offline and online world, natural disasters, supply shortages, or resource scarcity often reinforce the feeling that the world is becoming more insecure year by year, even if the objective likelihood of personal threats does not increase in many cases. But how secure is the digital space? This blog post summarizes the cyber threats lurking in 2025 and how you can address them.

These cyber threats lurk in 2025

Hacker attacks, data theft, or unauthorized network access can cause costs in the millions and damage reputations. Here is a brief overview of the current cyber threat landscape.

• Familiar Schemes
  Phishing, ransomware, trojans, and botnets remain among the biggest cyber threats worldwide.
• AI-Powered Attacks
  Through machine learning and artificial intelligence, cyberattacks are becoming increasingly intelligent and can bypass security measures more quickly.
• Fileless Attacks
  Cybercriminals use tools and functions already present in the victim's environment. Fileless attacks typically do not generate new files, allowing them to potentially fly under the radar of many prevention and detection solutions.
• Attacks on Critical Infrastructures
  Power grids, healthcare, and the transport sector are increasingly targeted.
• Vulnerabilities Due to Outdated Systems
  Companies that neglect software updates expose themselves to unnecessary risks.

Why disaster recovery in 2025 is essential

Cyberattacks and natural events like floods or storms cause billions in damages worldwide each year and lead to significant financial losses. Many companies never fully recover from an IT disaster. A well-thought-out disaster recovery plan minimizes the risks of losing valuable data, time, and work progress. A solid IT emergency strategy is therefore essential and should not be postponed.

What belongs in every IT emergency plan

• Risk assessment
  Where are potential vulnerabilities, and how risky are they in an emergency?
• Prioritize data and systems
  Set clear Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
• Establish a backup strategy
  How often and when should it be automatically secured with which backup solution?
• Communication plan
  How and which stakeholders should be informed after an IT failure?
• Test & optimize the emergency plan
  Emergency planning should not be a one-time project but a continuous process.

What IT teams must consider for backups

Which software best protects valuable data? Which backup solution suits your company depends mainly on these three factors:

• Retention Time: How long should the backups be retrievable and the lost data restorable?
• Management: Is technical know-how available? How much time can be devoted to backups? Have any potential licensing costs been budgeted?
• Devices: Depending on whether it is physical servers, virtual machines, or a cloud infrastructure, different backup solutions are suitable.

Our security and infrastructure experts are happy to analyze with you which backup best suits your company.

Extra Tip: Regular tests of backup and recovery processes ensure that data and systems can be quickly and effectively restored in an emergency.

Would you like to learn more about cybersecurity in 2025? In our whitepaper, you will find not only an overview of the current cyber threats but also concrete tips on how to protect your data and systems from IT failures and cybercriminals.