Discovering Security Navigator 2025
In December 2024, Orange Cyberdefense proudly unveils the Security Navigator 2025, a comprehensive, data-driven guide to the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity. Packed with fresh research and actionable insights, this edition is designed to empower CISOs, security managers, and all cybersecurity enthusiasts with the tools to navigate today’s complex threat landscape.
Our most extensive release to date features:
- Exclusive, first-hand intelligence from our operational and research teams, delivering unmatched clarity on today’s cyber threats.
- Breakthrough insights into areas like cyber extortion (Cy-X), AI vulnerabilities, and operational technology (OT) security.
- In-depth analyses of industry-specific and region-specific attack trends, with expanded coverage including over 13,000 extortion cases and the rise of sophisticated hacktivism tactics.
- AI’s role in security, examining its dual nature as a tool for both attack and defense, from AI-driven beacon detection to threats from large language model exploitation.
- Key 2024 incident data—highlighting alarming rises in ransomware affecting SMEs, the largest ransom paid to date ($75 million), and new frontiers in OT and mobile network vulnerabilities.
This 200+ page document consolidates lessons from over 135,000 logged incidents, presenting a roadmap for enhancing resilience against emerging threats.
To celebrate this launch, we invite you to a special webinar, moderated by our Head of Security Research, Charl van der Walt, to moderate a panel of global experts from Orange Cyberdefense to provide an overview and dive deep into the key trends and most exciting insights our researchers and technical experts have analyzed and reported.
Can't make this date?
Join our second Security Navigator 2025 live session on 5th February.
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Speakers:
Technical thought leader, spokesman and figurehead for Orange Cyberdefense world-wide, leading and managing the OC Security Research Center - a specialist security research unit within the group that helps us fulfill our mission of being a trusted partner to our customers by ensuring that we identify, track, analyze, communicate and act upon significant developments in the security landscape.
Responsible for using that intelligence and the other data, systems and human resources at the group's disposal to make a meaningful contribution of data and knowledge to the global security community.
The Security Research Center supports the OC mission by providing systems, data, intelligence and material that enable sound decision making by other group units driving growth, demonstrate our knowledge, experience and skill to all our internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring consistency between the messages we portray outwardly and the way our products and services are designed and delivered internally.
With a strong background in Criminal Science, Diana is a Lead Security Researcher for Orange Cyberdefense. Among other projects she heads the companies efforts to track, analyze and report on current ransomware trends. Her primary interests and focus are on data analysis, researching cybercrime trends, victimology and the human element in cyber security.
Wicus investigates industry events and trends with the single purpose of understanding how these may affect SecureData's clients and what the appropriate response is given the threat. This in turn result in building new detection processes or tools.
Wicus was previously involved with software development and compliance at Traderoot Technologies, an ecommerce technology vendor.