Forbes November 8, 2025
For years, cybersecurity strategy has followed a familiar playbook: detect faster, respond faster, recover faster. But as technology and threat actors evolve, that race has become harder to win. Adversaries now automate reconnaissance, exploit cloud misconfigurations and use legitimate tools to move laterally at a pace that overwhelms even mature security operations centers.
The issue isn’t that organizations can’t see threats — it’s that they can’t act fast enough to stop them. This gap between visibility and response has become one of the industry’s most persistent challenges, and it’s forcing security leaders to rethink how defense is organized.
The Acceleration Problem
Each wave of security innovation — from endpoint detection and response to extended detection and response — has expanded...







