With rising regulations and cyber threats, how are you adapting your data security posture in 2025?

I would say in 2025, we are taking a proactive, multi-layered approach to strengthen our data security posture. With increasing regulatory pressures (such as DORA, NIS2, and enhanced data residency requirements) and evolving cyber threats like AI-driven phishing and supply chain attacks, we’ve made several strategic shifts:

1.) Zero Trust Implementation: We’ve accelerated our Zero Trust architecture adoption by strengthening identity verification, enforcing least privilege access, and micro-segmenting our network.
2.)AI-Driven Threat Detection: Leveraging AI/ML-based behavioral analytics to detect anomalies in real-time and respond faster to insider threats and lateral movement.
3.)Data Security Posture Management (DSPM): We integrated DSPM tools to continuously monitor data sensitivity, access, and movement across multi-cloud environments—ensuring compliance and minimizing risk.
4.)Automation of Compliance Controls: Using policy-as-code frameworks and cloud-native automation to enforce compliance (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR) and accelerate audits.
5.) Data Encryption & Tokenization: Expanding enterprise-wide encryption (at rest and in transit) and tokenization for PII/PHI, especially in SaaS and hybrid cloud setups.
6.) Continuous Training & Threat Simulations: Regular phishing simulations and gamified cybersecurity awareness training help keep our human firewall strong.

By combining intelligent automation, cloud-native security tooling, and continuous education, we’re not just reacting to threats—we're building a resilient security-first culture.

I think if you're moving your posture in response to this then you've been stuck in an old paradigm for security for some time. Ever since the data escaped the easily defined corporate boundaries with data roaming on a variety of devices and cloud usage your focus should have been on securing the data wherever. An example might be moving certain data to sovereignty alignment. You should already have some loose roadmap for that if you have data scattered that may have to be considered in terms of that. End point protection is old hat and while you might want to do some reassessment that shouldn't be a radical change. Zero trust is another one. While you may not be 100% zero trust, I would expect today you would have many of the puzzle pieces in place as they are seen to be great ideas for security, even if you're not full out net zero.

Learning cybersecurity fundamentals is a great countermeasure to data security posture in 2025.

Implementing various layers of security—external perimeter, internal user, network, and device levels—with several different tools and end-user awareness campaigns, including talks, videos, courses, and email phishing drills, indicating the error and letting the end user know what to do.