ACCORDING to Cyber360: Defending the Digital Battlespace, a survey of 500 security leaders in government, defence and critical services across the US and UK found that 84% agree that sharing sensitive data across networks heightens cyber risk, while 53% still rely on manual processes to move data between systems.
The report notes that the threat landscape is accelerating, with 137 attempted or successful cyberattacks per week against national security organisations in 2025, up from 127 the year before, and that third‑party involvement in breaches doubled year over year on the enterprise side, reaching 30%. It also highlights significant cost and exposure effects, citing IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, where the average breach spanning multiple environments is about $5.05 million.
The article points to attacks on data pipelines, with Cl0p’s MOVEit incidents affecting more than 2,700 organisations and exposing around 93 million individuals’ data, a pattern echoed by breaches against GoAnywhere and Cleo. The piece argues that the bottleneck lies in secure data movement itself, not just identity or endpoints, and calls for a layered architectural approach combining Zero Trust, data-centric security and cross‑domain solutions to enable near‑real‑time secure data sharing across boundaries.