Business leaders’ bottom-line concerns often conflict with CISOs’ insistence on vital cybersecurity investments. The CISO-board relationship is deepening as they have more opportunities to engage on matters of cybersecurity and enterprise risk. CISOs’ regular presence in the boardroom and their counsel on enterprise risk will strengthen board confidence and alignment.

Security services remained the top category for M&A activity across consulting and MSSP, followed by sectors including Risk & Compliance and SecOps / IR / Threat Intel. While companies have prioritized email security solutions for decades, analysts expect the email security market to grow significantly in the coming years. Advanced threats relating to phishing and social engineering necessitate strong email security to protect employee and company data from threat actors.

In this report, they we anticipate malicious actors will continue their rapid adoption of AI-based tools to augment and assist their online operations across various phases of the attack lifecycle. We expect to see cyber espionage and cyber crime actors continue to leverage deepfakes for identity theft, fraud, and bypassing know-your-customer (KYC) security requirements. As AI capabilities become more widely available throughout 2025, enterprises will increasingly struggle to defend themselves against these more frequent and effective compromises.

In this report our threat researchers have observed significant growth in the breadth, scope, and complexity of threats that organizations are confronting. While it is difficult to be certain exactly how much of this activity is directly attributable to the generative AI boom, we expected to see security leaders expressing concerns about a rise in AI-powered cyber threats.

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.

PwC’s 2025 Global Digital Trust Insights revealed significant gaps companies must bridge before achieving cyber resilience. With the attack surface continuing to expand through advances in AI, connected devices and cloud technologies and the regulatory environment in constant flux, achieving cyber resilience at an enterprise level is critical. By addressing these gaps and making cybersecurity a business priority, executives can bridge to a more secure future.

This year’s findings provide a deeper look into the critical challenges and opportunities shaping application security as organizations grapple with growing attack surfaces, tool sprawl, and the rapid adoption of generative AI.

The 2024 Data Threat Report (DTR) analyzes how core security practices have changed in response to or in anticipation of changing threats. This report also offers perspectives on what organizations can do to leverage data assets to expand opportunities to make their businesses more agile and build trust with their customers. It analyzes global trends in threats to data and the underlying controls, regulations, risks and emerging technologies that need to be addressed.

This report seized the opportunity to do something different; it now focuses on highlighting what’s next for the hacking community. From neurodiversity in the hacking community to the rise of hacking influencer platforms, we’ve examined a broad spectrum of important topics. Now, most security professionals not only understand the difference between threat actors and hackers, but they actually have personal experience with ethical hacking.

The 3rd edition of the Lucy Study builds on a four-year history of objective comprehensive and robust data. The study lacks precision on the segment of small and micro companies. The number of insured companies - and there analyzed - is not yet sufficient in relation to the number of companies listed by INSEE.

This report presents the main findings with respect to the current state of CISOs. This duality became evident during our recent discussions with about 100 prominent CISOs from across the U.S. and Canada. The new SEC cyber rules and landmark cases that the agency brought against CISOs point to new legal and liability exposure.

IANS and Artico Search conducted their fifth annual CISO Compensation and Budget Research Study. Our analysis of the key drivers behind security budget growth reveals significant increases are often triggered by incidents or breaches, or by rising risks such as those associated with AI adoption.

In this report, the term security awareness program is used to describe a structured effort to engage, train, and secure your workforce and build a strong security culture. However, many organizations refer to such efforts using different terms, including security behavior and culture, security engagement and influence, security training and education, security communications, or human risk management.

Our research was conducted to understand how the adoption of new AI is affecting the threats stakeholders face, how they are responding, and AI’s role in prevention, threat detection, incident response, and recovery workflows. AI’s effects on the threat landscape are already being felt. A majority of survey participants (74%) report their organizations are seeing significant impacts from AI-powered cyber threats. An even greater majority (89%) believe that AI-powered threats will continue to trouble their organizations well into the future.

HackerOne’s Hacker-Powered Security Report: Industry Insights leverages data from real-world vulnerability reports to provide insight into the fastest-growing vulnerability categories, how bounty prices are changing year over year, and which industries are fastest to fix. The most innovative CISOs stay ahead of cybersecurity threats and mitigate vulnerabilities by augmenting internal teams and security testing tools with a skilled and engaged hacking community.

The 2024 Data Threat Report (DTR) analyzes how core security practices have changed in response to or in anticipation of changing threats. This report also offers perspectives on what organizations can do to leverage data assets to expand opportunities to make their businesses more agile and build trust with their customers. This report also considers both securing the use of GenAI and using GenAI to better secure the enterprise. Differing priorities from different functional leaders and external stakeholders will require security and risk management leaders to build stronger relationships.

This research demonstrates the continual progression of a cybersecurity conundrum that has become an unfortunate but permanent part of the digital environment. Progress is being made, but new fronts open up and new challenges emerge in a seemingly endless cycle. As the need for security rises to a board level concern, cyber leaders are facing more strategic issues to defend against, even while ongoing threats persist. As those security leaders stand to meet the threats, it behooves organizational leaders to provide the support and resources necessary to help enable those they must count on to keep their enterprises safe.

The third annual Future of Application Security survey reveals how key stakeholders are responding to this challenge. We surveyed 1504 developers, CISOs, and AppSec managers from a broad range of industries across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions. The responsibility has shifted away from dedicated security teams and is now shared between AppSec managers and developers.

Built on passion and expertise, Altitude Cyber delivers strategic advisory services specifically tailored for founders, investors, startups, and their boards. Our unique approach fuses strategic insight with financial acumen to help your company soar to new heights.

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.

To help businesses measure cyber attack readiness, we analyzed performance data from the 982 corporate security teams and 5,117 professionals who participated in our global CTF competition. HTB Business CTF: The Great Escape featured over 30 hacking challenges based on the live threat landscape covering areas such as forensics, blockchain, cloud, and more.