Defenders’ Guide 2025: Fortify the Future of Your Defense

The attack surface is not only getting wider but also deeper - wider as new attack vectors emerge, and deeper as threat actors find new ways to exploit traditional ones. With the growing use of LLMs and APIs, we can only expect this expansion to continue. That’s why the Akamai SOTI research team created something new for 2025; a practical, hands-on, highly technical defenders’ guide for those working on the front lines of the digital battlefield. Mapped to the security-in-depth framework, the Defenders’ Guide 2025 provides tactics and practices tested by defenders, researchers, data scientists and threat hunters who, like you, face these challenges every day. On 20 March 2025 at 1:00 p.m. GMT join Akamai and ISC2 to learn how to: • Improve risk management and scoring • Stay ahead of morphing malware, such as botnet families • Address architecture issues, like VPN abuse and XSS • Combine proactive steps with reactive response