| Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 |
World Economic Forum, Jan 2025 (World Economic Forum Reports) |
Sets out major trends that executives need to prepare for: increasing scale & sophistication of attacks; regulatory pressure; importance of resilience; growing role of technologies like AI both for attackers and defenders. |
| Fortinet Threat Landscape Report 2025 |
Fortinet, May 2025 (Fortinet) |
Finds adversaries automating reconnaissance; compressed time between vulnerability disclosure and exploit; more industrialization of cybercrime; evolving techniques in evasion; more scale to attacks. |
| State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2025 |
Accenture, Jun 2025 (Accenture) |
Reports that 72% of organizations are seeing increased attacks; many see threat landscape evolving (new vectors, AI-assisted attacks); also a gap in preparedness & resilience. |
| Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index 2025 |
Cisco, 2025 (Cisco Newsroom) |
Survey across ~8,000 businesses in 30+ markets: readiness for threats (particularly AI-enabled) is uneven; many orgs do not feel fully prepared; gaps in defensive capabilities, identity/security posture weak in many places. |
| IBM X-Force 2025 Threat Intelligence Index |
IBM / Red Hat, 2025 (IBM) |
Focuses on evolving threat landscape: malware-free techniques, increased cloud intrusions, social engineering, AI misuse; also stresses transformation from defense toward resilience (proactive detection, anticipating threats). |
| Cybersecurity and Financial System Resilience Report 2025 |
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC, U.S.), mid-2025 (OCC.gov) |
Highlights threats to the financial system: phishing, ransomware, nation-state threat actors; risk from supply chains and third parties; emphasizes need for stronger cyber risk management, regulatory oversight. |
| Dragos 2025 OT Cybersecurity Year in Review |
Dragos, 2025 (Dragos Cyber Security) |
Specific to Operational Technology (OT) / Industrial Control Systems (ICS): covers vulnerabilities, threats in OT / industrial environments; shows growing attack frequency, increased risk to critical infrastructure and physical systems. |
| CompTIA State of Cybersecurity 2025 |
CompTIA, 2025 (CompTIA) |
Examines cybersecurity landscape particularly in U.S. and globally: growth in demand for skills; challenges with aligning investment with real improvement; many organizations feel their efforts are only partially effective. |
| From Texts to Shields: Convergence of LLMs and Cybersecurity |
Tao Li et al., arXiv, May 2025 (arXiv) |
Academic study showing how Large Language Models (LLMs) are being and can be used in cybersecurity: scanning for vulnerabilities, reasoning about threats, etc. Also highlights risks: trust, interpretability, adversarial attacks on LLMs. |
