What does 2025 hold for InfoSec Practitioners in Manufacturing? From IT and OT convergence to ransomware resilience efforts, IANS Research is here to guide you through the evolving threat landscape that lays ahead

According to Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware remains the top threat across 92% of industries, with roughly one-third of all breaches involving ransomware or some other extortion technique. In this symposium, we’ll use digital forensics and incident response reports from real-world incidents to walk through the tactics, techniques and procedures of top ransomware gangs and share lessons learned to help you avoid the same fate.

Knowing you need a new security tool or service is easy, but explaining the need to non-tech execs and getting the budget in place is often far from simple.

Security architecture teams often face burnout from juggling too much engineering work or being pulled into non-architectural tasks. Misalignment with enterprise architects and challenges in demonstrating value to the organization further compound the problem. This symposium provides actionable insights on elevating your architecture program to improve maturity and focus and enable high-quality results.

Improve staff hiring and retention to attract and keep top security talent. Gain valuable insights on security staff roles and job satisfaction with market data from the 2025 Cybersecurity Staff Compensation Report.

Jesse spent a 40-year career in information security spanning roles with the US Defense Department, a Big 4 accounting firm, a US Government focused consulting firm and an engineering services subsidiary of a large conglomerate. Most recently, Jesse was an Engineering Leader in the Global Information Security group of a systemically large bank. Throughout his career, Jesse specialized in system security engineering, DLP, classification and project management.

Our Cybersecurity Staff Compensation Report, 2025 report jointly fielded with Artico Search provides essential insights into the current landscape of cybersecurity roles.

Download this ransomware defense strategy playbook designed as a checklist to help organizations more effectively prepare for and respond to ransomware events.

Third-party risks are expected to increase in 2025, as more organizations look to third parties to handle critical tasks, and hackers double down on disrupting supply chains.

This report details the main third-party risks to be aware of in 2025, as well as key areas security teams should invest in to improve their defenses and resilience to third-party compromise.