2025 Federal Retrospective: The Year of Resilient Innovation

Resiliency has been top of mind in 2025, and recent high-profile CVEs serve as holiday reminders that adversaries aren’t slowing down. But what changed this year was how the federal community responded. Increasingly, exploitability drove the clock: when vulnerabilities surfaced as actively exploited, agencies leaned on a more operational posture where “Are we exposed?” and “How fast can we fix it?” mattered as much as “How severe is it?” In that environment, 2025 was defined by a single, powerful transition: the shift from planning modernization to executing it at scale. For years, agencies have discussed digital transformation, zero trust, and the promise of AI. This year, those themes moved from strategy decks into day-to-day delivery.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from 2024 Sonatype Blog authored by Antoine Harden. Read the original post at: https://www.sonatype.com/blog/2025-federal-retrospective-the-year-of-resilient-innovation

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AndyC

Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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