The Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 report includes a deeper analysis of the most important drivers of complexity and provides valuable insights into the most pressing cyber challenges in the year ahead and their potential implications for executives. Of large organizations, 54% identified supply chain challenges as the biggest barrier to achieving cyber resilience.

The 2024 Global Cybersecurity Outlook (GCO) finds that organizations that maintain minimum viable cyber resilience – that is, a healthy middle grouping of organizations – are disappearing. Organizations reporting such a minimum viable cyber resilience are down 31% since 2022.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023, in collaboration with Accenture, examines the cybersecurity trends that will impact our economies and societies in the year to come.

The Global Cybersecurity Outlook flagship report identifies the trends and analyzes the near-term future cybersecurity challenges. The accelerated shift to remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic coupled the recent high-profile cyberattacks have resulted in bringing cybersecurity top of mind among key decision-makers in organizations and nations.

Research by McKinsey and the World Economic Forum points to a widening range of technology vulnerabilities and potentially huge losses in value tied to innovation.

From the preface to the report, “As in previous years, the Report is based on the annual Global Risks Perception Survey, completed by almost 750 members of the World Economic Forum’s global multistakeholder community. In addition to the special section exploring the evolving security landscape in an era of uncertainty, the Report presents deep-dive discussions of risks to the stability of societies posed by the (dis)empowered citizen, who is empowered by technology but feels disempowered by traditional decision-making processes. It also discusses the societal consequences of climate change with a focus on food and water crises and the threat of global pandemics.”

This report seeks to identify key components toward a framework to cyber risk modeling and qualifying and quantifying known vulnerabilities in defenses, while providing macro-systemic guidance.

From the report, “Risk and Responsibility in a Hyperconnected World, a joint effort between the World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company, assesses the necessary action areas, and examines the impact of cyberattacks and response readiness. The report sets these against three alternative scenarios in which economic value from technological innovations is realized or lost depending on models of cyber resilience. It draws on knowledge and opinions derived from a series of interviews, workshops and dialogues with global executives and thought leaders to estimate the potential value to be created through 2020 by technological innovations. It examines the value that could be put at risk if the adoption of such innovations is delayed because more frequent, intense cyberattacks are not met with more robust cyber resilience. Finally, the report draws conclusions from the analysis and research, and offers a 14-point roadmap for collaboration.”