As we move into 2025, the intersection of AI and cybersecurity continues to evolve in unexpected ways, creating both new opportunities and significant risks for businesses. The rapid adoption of AI technologies will redefine cybersecurity threats and legal frameworks, posing challenges to organizations across industries.
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Howard Taylor, CISO at Radware, explores how the weaponization of AI fuels cyberthreats, compliance risks, and cyber law fare.
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Travis Volk, SVP of Global Service Providers, Radware, sheds light on how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must brace for AI-enhanced cyberattacks. He also emphasizes the pressing need to abandon legacy systems in favor of unified, AI-driven security platforms.
Together, their insights provide a comprehensive look at the opportunities and challenges businesses will face in the coming year.
Predictions from Howard Taylor, CISO, Radware
The Weaponization of AI Will Fuel Cyberthreats and Compliance Risks
“While AI has improved incident detection and response capabilities, it has also opened new doors for cybercriminals. In 2025, GenAI tools will continue to be weaponized by bad actors to not only create more realistic and convincing deepfakes, phishing scams, and influence campaigns, but also to launch these attacks more easily and at a larger scale. The rapid adoption of these technologies will also fuel compliance risks that, without proper oversight, can expose companies to legal and financial troubles. In the absence of proactive monitoring, companies will risk overlooking important issues that should have been identified, resolved, and reported.”
AI Will Open the Door to Cyber Lawfare and Drive Up the Cost of Doing Business
“AI has become a central player in the cybersecurity field, both as a defense tool and as a growing risk. In 2025, look for AI to continue to complicate the legal landscape, sparking ‘cyber lawfare’ and the increasing business threat of fines, lawsuits, and potential imprisonment. AI applications may unknowingly pull copyrighted material into AI-generated text. Lawfare hunters have tools to identify these breaches and attempt to extract payment from the ‘copyright violator.’ CEOs and boards should consider this growing regulatory risk as an additional cost of doing business.”
Predictions from Travis Volk, SVP of Global Service Providers, Radware
ISPs will face more sophisticated, AI-enhanced cyber attacks“In 2025, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will face an unprecedented rise in AI-driven attacks that are both more sophisticated and harder to detect. AI is driving down the cost of attacks and escalating their speed and impact. For as little as $15, a hacker can buy an AI key on the dark web and launch a large language model (LLM)-assisted attack that can be executed within minutes. Hackers will continue to use advanced AI tools, including multi-vector and phishing tactics, to exploit vulnerabilities in ISP infrastructure with increasing accuracy. These AI-enhanced attacks will simulate legitimate traffic, making them difficult to distinguish from normal user behavior, even in Zero Trust environments.”
More ISPs will leave legacy systems behind for unified, AI-driven security platforms
“Currently, many ISPs rely on disparate sets of legacy security systems from multiple third-party providers, which often result in fragmented protection with significant blind spots. In 2025, to keep up with increasingly complex threats, more ISPs will move towards integrated, AI-driven security platforms that offer comprehensive, real-time protection. These unified platforms will allow ISPs to correlate threat data across various points of their networks, improving response time and detection accuracy.”
