Application layer comes under threat

A new report from Contrast Security exposes a growing crisis at the application layer as adversaries use AI to easily launch previously sophisticated attacks at scale. Recent reports from Verizon (DBIR 2025) and Google Mandiant (M-Trends 2025) confirm what many security leaders already suspect: components of the application layer are among the most targeted and least protected part of the modern enterprise. This trend includes hackers’ heightened focus on cloud environments, which heavily depend on application-layer services and interfaces, such as critical components like cloud-based single sign-on (SSO) web portals that store centralized authority. The report, built on 1.6 trillion… [Continue Reading]