# 2025 Year in Review - Top 10

DevFeed: [2025 Year in Review - Top 10](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/2025-year-in-review-top-10-39483.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.philvenables.com/post/2025-year-in-review-top-10>)

Author: Phil Venables

Published: 2026-01-10T14:36:22Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Risk and Cyber](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/risk-and-cyber.md>)

Topics: [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Detection engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/detection-engineering.md>), [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarking.md>), [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [execution](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/execution.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [risk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/risk.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>), [transformation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformation.md>), [vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerabilities.md>), [year-in-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/year-in-review.md>)

## AI overview

A 2025 year-in-review highlighting posts about cybersecurity as a business leadership, strategic design, and sustainable execution function. It emphasizes moving from reactive security practices toward scalable, proactive systems and cautions against benchmarking based only on inputs such as budgets rather than control effectiveness.

## Source excerpt

The most read posts in 2025 coalesced around the concept that successful cybersecurity is fundamentally a function of business leadership, strategic design, and sustainable execution . The unifying themes across the top posts emphasize shifting security from an artisanal, reactive craft to an industrial-scale, proactive capability focused on building scalable, self-reinforcing systems (flywheels). Transformation requires leaders to manage stakeholder expectations carefully, particularly by...