Data Security Predictions for 2025: Putting Protection and Resilience at Center Stage

Data Security Predictions for 2025: Putting Protection and Resilience at Center Stage
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Tue, 12/17/2024 – 05:10

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Cybersecurity is a remarkably dynamic industry. New trends, technologies, and techniques reshape the landscape at an extraordinary pace, meaning keeping up can be challenging. Protecting data, the driving force of modern businesses, will continue to be the primary focus of organizations throughout 2025. So, as we race into the new year, and as technology and risks evolve, efforts will be focused on varying frontiers. Here are our predictions for data security in 2025.

Data Privacy Regulations Take Center Stage

The United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) states that 80% of countries now have or are working on data protection and privacy legislation. These regulations mandate that data will be stored and processed within specific jurisdictions to address risks associated with international law enforcement.

These requirements have a profound impact. Cloud providers and businesses must comply with local data sovereignty laws. Organizations must embed privacy-by-design principles in new systems and applications. Privacy-enhancing technologies will be the leading technical measures implemented to mitigate these risks.

The U.S. has traditionally struggled to implement federal regulations concerning data privacy, often leaving this issue to be addressed state-by-state. Some states, like California, have introduced their own unique data privacy laws. However, in 2024, the U.S. Federal American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) was proposed but it is still pending approval. This act marks a significant step toward establishing federal data privacy regulations.

Although the future of APRA remains uncertain, it is reasonable to expect that APRA and data privacy will continue to be vital discussion topics in the upcoming year.

Companies Proactively Embrace Compliance

With the acceleration of cyberattacks, companies are taking steps to better regulate their digital space. They are adapting compliance frameworks to harmonize and enforce the responsibilities over their digital assets (workload, data, identities) while maintaining business continuity and resilience.

In response to these developments, the cybersecurit

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