Cyber Risk and Technology Trends Reshaping Business Resilience in 2025

Executives around the globe increasingly recognize cyber threats, with 29% citing cyber risk as their greatest business concern in 2025, up from 26% in 2024. Paradoxically, this growing awareness coincides with executives reporting higher confidence in their cybersecurity preparedness—rising from 75% to 83%. However, this elevated confidence risks masking true vulnerabilities, as businesses face increasingly sophisticated and disruptive threats, notably AI-enhanced ransomware and third-party vendor breaches.

The evolving landscape includes heightened threats posed by third-party suppliers. Systemic incidents such as the CrowdStrike outage have demonstrated how interconnected supply chains and cloud dependencies can lead to widespread disruption. Additionally, global geopolitical tensions amplify these vulnerabilities, with state-sponsored attacks and politically motivated hacktivist actions increasingly targeting corporations and critical infrastructures.

AI technology brings transformative potential and new risks. While organizations rapidly adopt AI to enhance efficiency and innovation, the technology also introduces significant cybersecurity, intellectual property, and data privacy challenges. Firms must carefully balance AI’s benefits against potential liabilities, including biases, errors, and unintended data breaches.

Navigating this shifting landscape demands continuous investment in layered cyber defenses, regular vulnerability assessments, stringent third-party management, and robust incident response planning. With increasing cybercrime costs projected at $10.5 trillion for 2025, executives must remain vigilant, addressing both immediate vulnerabilities and long-term strategic cyber resilience.