Key Takeaways from the 2025 Global Threat Landscape Report

Fortinet’s Global Threat Landscape summary for 2024 highlights an accelerating adversary advantage driven by automation and AI: massive automated scanning and exploitation, a large surge in stolen credentials traded on darknet markets, widespread exploitation of legacy vulnerabilities and IoT devices, and sophisticated post-exploitation techniques (RATs, RDP lateral movement, living-off-the-land). The report urges organizations to adopt Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), prioritize vulnerabilities based on real-world risk and threat intelligence, and automate detection and response to reduce dwell time.