Webinar Summary

Defending your business, data, and employees from cyberattacks in 2025 will become increasingly difficult. Not only are bad actors doing their best to crack your defenses, but their AI assistants will make it easier for them to launch highly targeted and advanced attacks.

 

During this session, the leaders of WatchGuard’s Threat Lab, CSO Corey Nachreiner and Director of Security Operations Marc Laliberte, will review the new attacks they expect to see in the coming year, including:

  • As multimodal AI systems gain the ability to integrate text, images, voice, and sophisticated coding, threat actors will leverage them to streamline and automate the entire pipeline of a cyber attack.
  • Attackers will intensify their attempts to target little-known but widely used third-party open-source libraries and dependencies to avoid detection and execute malicious attacks.
  • As threat actors will look to increasingly leverage AI to both find and build vulnerabilities, cybersecurity professionals will also take advantage of AI’s capabilities to uncover and stymie their attempts.
  • GenAI will open up new attack vectors for bad actors to profit when they combine it with other sophisticated tactics to earn the trust of organizations to perform what they believe is a legitimate business transaction.

Speakers

Corey Nachreiner

CSO

Marc Laliberte

Director of Security Operations