Remember that wild heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris in October 2025? Thieves literally used a cherry picker to smash through a window and steal French crown jewels. It's honestly the perfect metaphor for what has happened in cybersecurity this year: Threat actors will use whatever tools they can get their hands on to grab your digital crown jewels.

Today’s tools are both super sophisticated and frighteningly easy to access, thanks to ransomware as a service (RaaS). The kicker is that, unlike a museum, your enterprise "treasure room" is massive and spread across the entire globe. That's a lot of windows you need to keep an eye on.

Helping businesses tackle these security challenges is what we're all about at Akamai.…