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Recent Reports & Key Findings: ICT & Cybersecurity
| Report / Study | Publisher / Date | Key Findings / Insights |
|---|---|---|
| Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 | World Economic Forum, Jan 2025 (World Economic Forum Reports) | Sets out major trends that executives need to prepare for: increasing scale & sophistication of attacks; regulatory pressure; importance of resilience; growing role of technologies like AI both for attackers and defenders. |
| Fortinet Threat Landscape Report 2025 | Fortinet, May 2025 (Fortinet) | Finds adversaries automating reconnaissance; compressed time between vulnerability disclosure and exploit; more industrialization of cybercrime; evolving techniques in evasion; more scale to attacks. |
| State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2025 | Accenture, Jun 2025 (Accenture) | Reports that 72% of organizations are seeing increased attacks; many see threat landscape evolving (new vectors, AI-assisted attacks); also a gap in preparedness & resilience. |
| Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index 2025 | Cisco, 2025 (Cisco Newsroom) | Survey across ~8,000 businesses in 30+ markets: readiness for threats (particularly AI-enabled) is uneven; many orgs do not feel fully prepared; gaps in defensive capabilities, identity/security posture weak in many places. |
| IBM X-Force 2025 Threat Intelligence Index | IBM / Red Hat, 2025 (IBM) | Focuses on evolving threat landscape: malware-free techniques, increased cloud intrusions, social engineering, AI misuse; also stresses transformation from defense toward resilience (proactive detection, anticipating threats). |
| Cybersecurity and Financial System Resilience Report 2025 | Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC, U.S.), mid-2025 (OCC.gov) | Highlights threats to the financial system: phishing, ransomware, nation-state threat actors; risk from supply chains and third parties; emphasizes need for stronger cyber risk management, regulatory oversight. |
| Dragos 2025 OT Cybersecurity Year in Review | Dragos, 2025 (Dragos Cyber Security) | Specific to Operational Technology (OT) / Industrial Control Systems (ICS): covers vulnerabilities, threats in OT / industrial environments; shows growing attack frequency, increased risk to critical infrastructure and physical systems. |
| CompTIA State of Cybersecurity 2025 | CompTIA, 2025 (CompTIA) | Examines cybersecurity landscape particularly in U.S. and globally: growth in demand for skills; challenges with aligning investment with real improvement; many organizations feel their efforts are only partially effective. |
| From Texts to Shields: Convergence of LLMs and Cybersecurity | Tao Li et al., arXiv, May 2025 (arXiv) | Academic study showing how Large Language Models (LLMs) are being and can be used in cybersecurity: scanning for vulnerabilities, reasoning about threats, etc. Also highlights risks: trust, interpretability, adversarial attacks on LLMs. |
How Media Broke Reality — and How We Rebuild Trust
For years, the attention economy monetized division. Outrage became a product. Reality fractured. Here’s how we build a trust-first, public-interest media ecosystem.
Media didn’t just report conflict — it profited from it.
Legacy and social platforms optimized for engagement over truth. The result: a business model that rewards fear, fury, and faction — and a public square that can’t agree on basic facts.
A shared reality we can build on
- Trust by design — transparent sourcing, open methods, accountable corrections.
- Public-interest governance — communities as co-owners, not just consumers.
- Federated distribution — many nodes, less capture; voices amplified without gatekeepers.
Misinformation economics
- Outrage = engagement = revenue.
- Algorithms reward division and emotional spectacle.
- Shareholder pressure turns news into a ratings game.
Translation: The more fractured we are, the more profitable the feed.
Incentives broke the mission
When ad-tech metrics replaced civic purpose, truth lost to virality. News drifted from a public service to an attention product.
Rebuild on transparency, decentralization, and public benefit
- Transparency-first reporting — publish sources, notes, and method cards alongside stories.
- Open-source journalism — share datasets, code, and verification trails for public audit.
- Federated & cooperative media — distribute via ActivityPub/Mastodon/PeerTube; adopt co-op ownership.
- Trust layers — human + AI assisted evidence labels, correction ledgers, and provenance watermarks.
- Public-interest compacts — governance charters that codify mission over metrics.
The reality restoration project
Nonprofits, member-funded outlets, and the Fediverse point to a post-outrage model where credibility compounds.
- Investigative nonprofits proving impact > impressions.
- Member-powered platforms aligning incentives with readers.
- Decentralized networks reducing capture and amplifying credible voices.
Re-imagining media and the arts as a public service:
Michael Masucci, co-director of the pioneering media arts collective EZTV, offers an extraordinary chance to explore the evolution of independent video art, the birth of digital culture, and how media can be a vehicle for radical transformation, equity, and experimental collaboration.
Our conversation is designed to bring forward his decades of innovation at the intersection of art, technology, activism, and community.
Experience the uplifting story of EZTV and the importance of decentralized community media.
The arts has served as a method of traversing cultural barriers and geo-political ideologies and has been the bleeding-edge of innovation in both thought as well as practice.
How can we leverage the enormous potential of the current media tools and the distribution and communication possibilities of those who have access to online experiences?
How can media benefit from the forward-thinking experimental model that art cultivates and preserves?
It is time to re-imagine both how mass pop culture and the more esoteric niche practices in the arts build bridges between seemingly different communities and belief systems.
Michael Masucci, EZTV Media and EZTV Museum, DNA Festival, Santa Monica
Michael J. Masucci is an award-winning artist who has also been curating digital art since 1984, and producing digital and multimedia since 1980. According to the Victoria & Albert Museum, an early digital art gallery he co-created “literally put digital art on the map.” As a founding member of EZTV (eztvmuseum.com) he has collaborated on projects which have been presented at institutions including the Getty Museum, Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Institute of Contemporary Art (London) the Centre Pompidou, Lincoln Center, PBS, UCLA, the School of Visual Arts (NY) New School/Parsons, the University of Helsinki, SIGGRAPH, Disneyland Paris, CalTec, Anthology Film Archives, LA Filmforum, DEFCON, Humanity+, Burning Man, as well as at numerous festivals, and professional conferences. A retrospective of his early video has been staged at REDCAT/Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex,
He has authored articles and spoken on topics ranging from information security, transhumanism, and the role of art in the digital world. His work is included in the permanent collection of USC and UCLA. He has been included in the Getty’s PST in 2011 and 2024 and co-founded DNA Festival Santa Monica and has been profiled in various publications and appeared on a number of podcasts and in several documentaries and is being included in a PHD dissertation on media art. A cisgender man, he helped save an archive of seminal early Queer media art. He has served as Chair of the Santa Monica Arts Commission and is the recipient of four City commendations for his contributions to the arts. He has been an artist-in-residence since 2000 at 18th Street Arts Center. He holds a degree in law and certifications in music production, graphic design, computer coding, entrepreneurship and mediation/conflict resolution.
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