4 Developments in Security and Privacy Technology for 2025

SadaNews - Despite the rise in digital and physical threats reaching record levels, advancements in security and privacy provide us with stronger defenses than ever. New tools can now scan the wireless spectrum to detect hidden risks, protect faces and voices from AI abuse, identify who has access to sensitive data in real-time, and safeguard large language models from data leaks. Together, these innovations are reshaping how we protect our information and personal safety.

Removal of Personal Images and Wireless Threat Detection

• A free application to help people control their names, images, and likenesses in the age of AI. How can you control your image in the AI era? The company "Loti AI" (Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management) is doing this extensively through a massive network of tens of thousands of servers that collectively scan everything uploaded to the internet each day. The company, founded three years ago and based in Seattle, combines extensive web tracking, multi-media detection through audio, image, and video, and applies a rights enforcement mechanism specifically designed for the entertainment and media industry.

Loti AI has achieved a 95% success rate in removing illegal content within 17 hours. Thanks to regulatory momentum from the proposed "Stop Fakes" law, new funding, and partnerships across media and security, the company has also launched a free application for individuals.

• Detecting wireless threats. Wireless signals have become busier than ever, from Bluetooth and WiFi signals to 5G and beyond, and the data they carry is just as valuable as anything transmitted over fiber optics. This makes them an attractive target for attackers.

Bastille Networks uses software-defined radio systems and AI to map the wireless environment in real-time, detect threats, and issue instant alerts while integrating with major security platforms such as Cyber Defense Systems like XDR (Extended Detection and Response), CAASM (Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management), SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation and Response), and Zero Trust networks.

Among its clients are Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and military units, with deployments already protecting 5 million square feet of facilities within the intelligence community.

AI Security and Personal Identity Monitoring

• Keeping large language models secure. As companies rely on large language models and AI-based applications, protecting the data flowing through them has become a major concern. The AI Guard system from Pangea acts as an agent developers can access via an API, standing between applications and the large language model or serving as a defense against advanced rapid request injection attacks, code laundering, and multi-language exploitation.

Its toolkit - including sensors and a Chrome extension - allows administrators to monitor leaks of sensitive data.

To maintain low response times, Pangea uses smaller large language models to differentiate harmful or inappropriate content and prevent confidential data from entering the models.

• Real-time monitoring of identity, access, and privileges. With the proliferation of applications, databases, and agents, companies struggle to know who has access to what, what can be done with that access, and whether that access should exist at all. While traditional identity management tools rely on static roles and manual processes, Visa's identity security platform examines real-time authorization profiling data - the data that governs what users and devices can actually do across applications, infrastructure, and data systems - to create a dynamic permission graph across human and non-human identities. This gives administrators more precise visibility and control by identifying risks, analyzing least privilege access, and conducting timely access reviews in real time.

The companies and individuals behind these technologies have received the "Next Big Innovators in Tech" award from Fast Company magazine for 2025.