Sponsored: Sounding the cyber alarm: how to navigate bigger, faster, more complex threats.
By Carlos de Alfonso, solution architect at Radware
01 March 2025
The pace of change in cybersecurity has gone from fast to exponential. As a result, the CISO’s mission to keep their company secure has become even more daunting. Keeping an organisation protected today means having an even deeper understanding of the threat landscape and staying ahead of the AI-powered tools that are driving bigger, faster and more complex attacks. Four major factors are driving changes within cybersecurity.
• A shifting threat landscape
A report from Radware shows significant changes throughout the threat landscape, including a shift towards the application layer. The size, frequency and complexity of these attacks continue to grow across attack vectors, with the average DDoS attack volume up 127% year on year in 2024; bot attacks up 61% YoY in H1 2024, and mitigated Web DDoS attacks up 265% from H2 2023 to H1 2024. This surge is being driven by multiple factors. This includes the political ideologies, religious beliefs and financial motives of hacktivist groups. Bad actors are also becoming savvier. AI models enable them to advance their skill sets faster than before. They also use more sophisticated tools in cyber attacks, some tools converging 50+ attack vectors. Add to this a rise in the sheer number of attackers, growth fueled in part by the transformation of everyday gamers, and no organisation is immune from the wrath of these attacks.
• Tougher regulations
Newer and stricter standards and requirements on processes are also making life more difficult for CISOs and security managers. PCI DSS 4.0, NIS2, DORA, and GDPR are just a few of the top contenders.
Expansion of hybrid cloud deployments
The rise of hybrid cloud deployments continues to add to the difficulties for CISOs. According to Radware’s Application Security in a Multi-Cloud World 2023 report, 55% of organisations now run three or more environments, while 73% still maintain their on-prem hardware datacentres. And they’re attempting to do this while trying to ensure consistent protection across all these environments.
Lack of cybersecurity staff and skills
The fourth challenge that CISOs face in today’s cybersecurity environment is a shortage of experienced cybersecurity experts. According to a 2024 ISC Cybersecurity Workforce Study, 67% of organisations face shortages of security staff or skills, significantly limiting their ability to monitor and respond to threats in a timely fashion.
To lift organisations above these challenges, Radware neutralises threats with Radware® EPIC-AI™. The AI-based innovation infuses state-of-the-art AI and generative AI algorithms across Radware’s security solutions to deliver precise, hands-free, consistent protections across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Powered by EPIC-AI, Radware’s security solutions provide:
• Integration across multiple enforcement points to uniformly apply security policies, signatures, and rules regardless of where an application resides.
• Real-time cloud protection engines with AI-powered Web DDoS, DNS, bot, and API protection.
• Cross-platform AI reasoning that uniquely correlates threat intelligence and data driven feeds across the real-time protection engines to help preemptively block malicious sources.
• AI-Driven SOC capabilities that enable 24x7, AI-empowered managed services to quickly identify the root causes of an incident and automatically solve it.
Given today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, staying secure requires a Fight-AI-with-AI approach. For CISOs and their teams, Radware’s AI-based innovations can help not only significantly improve real-time attack detection and mitigation, but also reduce mean time to resolution, gain more control over their security, and protect their brands.