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.

The Salt Security State of API Security Report for this year has brought to light an urgent need for action, as the usage of APIs has skyrocketed and security breaches have become more commonplace. Organizations are now managing more APIs than ever before, with 66% of them managing over 100. As a result, there has been a staggering increase in API security breaches, with incidents more than doubling in the past year (37% of respondents experienced incidents).

This report leverages N2K’s analytical strengths to map WiCyS members’ skills directly to the NICE Workforce Framework, categorizing capabilities into functional areas that highlight the unique strengths and potential growth opportunities for WiCyS members. By conducting thorough diagnostics and focused analyses, this partnership identifies the capabilities of WiCyS members and aligns them with industry standards to ensure that their skills are recognized and utilized to the fullest.

The report explores the thinking of 750 global cloud decision-makers and users about the public, private and multi-cloud market. It shares their current and future cloud strategies, often showing year-over-year (YoY) changes to help identify trends. And it offers perspective on how some trends have changed over the years. The survey began in the first quarter of 2020 during the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak spreading outside of China.

This tenth annual Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report (previously known as the RightScale State of the Cloud Report) delves into the details of what respondents had to say to reveal what’s happening with all things cloud—from spend allocation to cost management to strategies. Leveraging this data can help IT professionals plan the next steps of their cloud journey. The report explores the thinking of 750 global cloud decision-makers and users about the public, private and multi-cloud market. It shares their current and future cloud strategies, often showing year-over-year (YoY) changes to help identify trends.

The survey tapped 750 IT professionals and executive leaders worldwide representing a broad cross-section of industries and context areas in the winter of 2022. Flexera sources participants from an independent panel that is rigorously maintained and is comprised of vetted respondents with detailed profiles. At numerous points throughout the report, we’ve provided our own interpretation of the data as Flexera Points of View.

High-functioning enterprises increasingly rely on ITAM practitioners to tackle new and evolving challenges. Saving money has increasingly become ITAM teams’ number one initiative, but new responsibilities don’t end there. FinOps teams, central cloud teams, security teams, ESG (environmental, social and governance) teams, ITSM teams and enterprise architecture teams are improving their business outcomes by leveraging data from ITAM teams and tools. This year’s survey is weighted more heavily toward larger companies, with 89% of respondents in organizations with more than 2,000 employees and 14% in organizations with more than 50,000 employees.

AuditBoard’s 2023 Digital Risk survey of 130+ risk leaders found, most organizations are struggling to mature their risk management capabilities. . Our survey explored the digital risk management programs and technologies that organizations currently rely upon to better understand their digital risk landscape and digital risk management maturity, integration, and technology adoption.

This new study makes it clear that enterprise demands have certainly continued to grow since then. Organizations place greater strategic priority on TPRM to contribute to a widening scope of enterprise risk that extends beyond cybersecurity. It’s also clear from these results that supply chains are expanding as is the need to efficiently assess risk across those business relationships. Respondents tell us they’re increasingly relying on automated assessments and risk ratings to meet that demand.

The Sysdig 2024 Cloud‑Native Security and Usage Report comes at an exciting time after a year of cybersecurity making headlines worldwide. This is indicative of how broad the security landscape has grown in a short amount of time, thanks to the cloud. This report looks at real‑world data to draw conclusions about the state of cloud security. From our perspective, we see that organizations continue to struggle with the shift‑left concept. Although runtime threat prioritization has greatly reduced vulnerabilities, there remains an urgency for powerful and speedy cloud threat detection and response (TDR).

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.

CDW Canada’s 2023 Canadian Hybrid Cloud Report, our latest annual survey with IDC, to learn how organizations are transforming into a digital business, adopting cloud platforms, deploying hybrid and multicloud solutions. You’ll also find out what are the top business objectives shaping digital infrastructure strategies in Canada.

The objective with this research was to gather the perspectives and priorities of global IT leaders who are considering leveraging cybersecurity best practices to spur growth in their organizations. Through the survey, we were able to pinpoint areas of investment, operational challenges and potential threats while gauging an outlook on the future.

The annual Cybersecurity considerations report identifies eight considerations that CISOs should prioritize in the year ahead as they seek to accelerate recovery times, reduce the impact of incidents on employees, customers and partners and aim to ensure their security plans enable — rather than expose — the business. The report also explores the key actions CISOs should take to meet the challenges ahead and to help ensure security is the organization’s golden thread, woven into the business across the board — providing the basis for trust.

With security threats putting everything from personal information to critical infrastructure at risk, and with the incidence of ransomware attacks and other data breaches increasing, the 2023 RSA ID IQ Report provides cybersecurity professionals with insights into users’ understanding and behavior. By reviewing users’ answers on the identity components needed to develop a zero trust framework, multi-factor authentication, the vulnerability of mobile devices, and other cybersecurity threats, leaders can prioritize actions and implement best practices to keep their organizations secure.

The Financial Services Industry (FSI) adoption of cloud services has grown extensively in recent years and is expected to increase with further adoption and integration of cloud service provider (CSP) functions replacing traditional technology of banking, commerce, and other methods of performing financial transactions and exchanging financial data. The intention of this report was to evaluate the current state of adoption, compared to the industry’s readiness just three years ago when CSA conducted a similar survey and identify the current issues and opportunities that FSI leaders are addressing in their progression to further utilizing cloud services.

Expel commissioned CSA to develop a survey and report to understand better the industry’s knowledge, attitudes, and opinions regarding security’s relationship to innovation, outcomes of security-enabled innovation, and trends in cloud use. Expel financed the project and co-developed the questionnaire with CSA research analysts. The survey was conducted online by CSA in May of 2023 and received 1018 responses from IT and security professionals from organizations of various sizes and locations. CSA’s research analysts performed the data analysis and interpretation for this report.

The global Study on Closing the IT Security Gap: Addressing Cybersecurity Gaps from Edge to Cloud, now in its third year, is sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) to look deeply into the critical actions needed to close security gaps and protect valuable data. In this year’s research, Ponemon Institute surveyed 2,084 IT and IT security practitioners in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, and for the first time, France. All participants in this research are knowledgeable about their organizations’ IT security and strategy and are involved in decisions related to the investment in technologies.

Our latest cybersecurity research reveals some organizations are using cybersecurity as a differentiator to deliver better business outcomes. Those organizations that closely align their cybersecurity programs to business objectives are 18% more likely to increase their ability to drive revenue growth, increase market share and improve customer satisfaction, trust and employee productivity.

Our CEO Report on Cyber Resilience draws on 37 interviews with CEOs of large global enterprises. It explores the role chief executives need to play in successfully managing cybersecurity risks. Our interviews with CEOs reveal that this shift to thinking about cyber resilience requires fundamental changes in approach: how they think about cybersecurity (their mindsets) and how they act (their playbooks).

CompTIA’s 2022 State of Cybersecurity report examines the disconnect between root cause and symptoms. Digital transformation driven by cloud and mobile adoption is forcing a new strategic approach to cybersecurity, but fully adopting this new approach poses significant challenges, both tactically and financially. Although cybersecurity remains one of the most pressing issues for modern business, the hurdles that come from legacy views of IT and low understanding of the threat landscape make it difficult to follow the prescribed treatment.