As organizations move quickly to adopt AI, security leaders are facing a familiar challenge in a new form: how to innovate at speed without increasing risk. At Microsoft Ignite, we sat down with our partners at IBM to talk candidly about what Secure by Design looks like in practice, and why it’s becoming a foundational expectation beyond its previous buzzword status.

This conversation is about how organizations need to change their mindset, culture, and the real-world tradeoffs security and business leaders are navigating as AI becomes embedded across the enterprise. All of which stems from IBM’s Institute for Business value’s most recent paper Secure by design, smarter with AI.

“AI doesn’t fundamentally change the fact that security is a cat-and-mouse game, but it does make that game move much faster,” said Srini Tummalapenta, co-author of the new paper and Distinguished Engineer & CTO IBM Security Services.

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Every year, the Microsoft Digital Defense Report synthesizes signals, research, and frontline experience from across Microsoft’s global security ecosystem. Like years past, Microsoft Threat Intelligence identifies several themes that security teams should make themselves aware of, and more importantly, our recommendations on how to best address them.

As part of the report we sat down with Chloé Messdaghi, one of the architects behind the report, who explains not just what defenders are up against, but how leaders should respond. Below, we break down each recommendation and what it means in practice for security leaders navigating 2025.

To gain more insights into the threat landscape, read the full Digital Defense Report or the CISO executive summary.

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