Security managers end of year plan: What to do before 2025 begins

**Executive summary:** This blog post provides a practical end-of-year checklist for security managers: reflect on 2024 performance and incidents, identify high-risk areas and emerging threats (e.g., AI/deepfake attacks, AI-enabled social engineering, double extortion), prepare a year-end report to secure executive support, draft a 2025 security plan with monthly themes, perform final system updates and organization-wide backups, and recognize contributors to maintain morale; it is advisory guidance rather than an incident or technical intelligence report.