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Cybercrime, operational disruption, and the expanding attack surface are converging to create a more volatile security environment than at any point in the past decade. AI-driven threats, geopolitical tension, and tighter regulatory expectations are raising the stakes for defenders across APAC.

Hybrid cloud adoption is accelerating, but with it comes a persistent challenge: fragmented IP address management across on-premises and cloud environments. Infoblox, a leader in networking and security automation, has stepped in with a solution. The company announced a new integration between Infoblox Universal IPAM and Amazon VPC IPAM, designed to unify IP address management and eliminate costly conflicts.

In an era where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just an accelerator but an active participant in global cyber offensives, the threat landscape is shifting faster than most organisations can adapt. Needless to say, we stand at an inflection point: Adversaries are scaling with AI, while many enterprises remain anchored to legacy controls built for a different age.

At least 18 American universities have been targeted in a coordinated phishing attack that lasted for several months, aiming to steal student and staff account details even when multi-factor authentication was enabled, based on information published by HackRead.

Each business has its unique challenges, but one commonality today is that AI is poised to disrupt almost every business everywhere. Organizations aren’t the only ones rapidly shifting to adopt AI—attackers are too, and they’re doing it faster. The implications of this AI arms race are alarming for legitimate businesses around the world.

As organisations brace for another year of rapid change across networking, security and cloud, the pace of innovation and cyberthreat evolution shows no sign of slowing. Infoblox experts tell us what IT teams should expect in 2026, from AI-driven attacks and autonomous operations to expanding attack surfaces and rising regulatory pressures.

2025 has proven itself to be a groundbreaking year for networking, security and cloud. With the proliferation of AI technologies, new global regulations and the growing complexity of cloud infrastructure, IT teams have found themselves on constantly shifting sands.

Infoblox introduces a new DNS-based security integration for AWS Network Firewall. The solution, which will be available through the AWS Marketplace, is designed to help organizations identify and block threats earlier.

Infoblox, the leader in uniting networking, security and cloud with a protective DDI platform, today announced a new integration between Infoblox Universal IP Address Management™ (Universal IPAM) and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM). The integration is designed to accelerate application rollouts and updates by simplifying cross-team collaboration through the automated management of IP addresses across on-premises and AWS.

Infoblox, the leader in uniting networking, security and cloud with a protective DDI platform, today announced the launch of Infoblox AWS Marketplace managed rules for AWS Network Firewall. This new integration strengthens organisations’ cloud security posture with predictive, DNS-based threat intelligence natively within their existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.