What’s cybercrime costing us? Who really controls your data? From AI-driven attacks to billion-dollar breaches, 2025 exposed every weak link in the cloud. See what our wrap-up reveals about the future of SaaS, and how you can go into 2026 prepared.
Three clouds, one shared risk. AWS, Azure, and Google now power nearly every modern DevOps stack—but as we saw this year, even the biggest players aren’t immune to downtime. If your backups live where your production data does, do you really own your data?
The global average cost of a data breach dropped for the first time in five years to USD $4.44M, thanks to faster identification and containment. However, IBM notes that this worldwide number would be lower were it not for the US, where the cost grew 9% to $10.22M.
Crime doesn’t pay, but it seems cybercriminals didn’t get the memo.
The global cost of cybercrime is estimated to grow to $1T per month by 2031.
On average, 1 in 6 data breaches involve attackers using AI, most often for AI-generated phishing (37%) and deepfake impersonation attacks (35%).
After unpacking the year’s biggest numbers around cloud ownership, SaaS spend, and the soaring cost of cybercrime, we turned to our own.
Rewind’s internal data reveals the real story of resilience: billions of items backed up, terabytes restored, and countless teams who kept shipping when disaster struck.
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