In this report, we explore for you the emerging trends and predictions that shape the future of enterprise IT and Security. From the global implications of the cybercrime convention to the pitfalls of failed AI projects, the insights we offer will help you prepare for what’s ahead.

The Crypto Maturity Journey outlines considerations for cryptocurrency product rollout, enabling FIs to evaluate market opportunities while simultaneously addressing regulatory and compliance requirements. Over the last few years, cryptocurrency has become a mainstream asset class, with institutional investments as one factor in boosting adoption around the world. Institutions such as BlackRock, Fidelity, and Grayscale have launched Bitcoin and Ethereum ETPs, providing a more accessible avenue for retail and institutional investors to gain exposure to these digital assets.

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.

In this report, we’ll delve into insights drawn from an analysis of over 16 billion authentications in the last year (and over 44B in the last 4 years), spanning nearly 52 million different browsers, on 58 million endpoints and 21 million unique phones across regions. Authenticator apps like Duo mobile appeal to both demand for higher security and ease-of-use. Last year, access to remote access applications fell to nearly 25% of authentications after peaking in 2020.

This is the sixth year in a row Tidelift has conducted a survey about open source and the third time it focused exclusively on the maintainers who create and maintain the open source projects we all depend on. The most cited stat from that previous survey was that 60% of maintainers described themselves as unpaid hobbyists. We asked the same question again this year to see if things had changed.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the significance of security testing cannot be overstated. As we delve into the 2023 trends, it’s clear that penetration testing remains the cornerstone of a robust security strategy. we’ve observed a substantial 31% increase in manual pentest engagements, highlighting a growing reliance on this building block of security.

In this report, one clear finding from the survey was that it is important to test throughout the application lifecycle using a variety of methods. Although testing early continues to be important, having visibility into and being able to monitor and test deployed applications is still critical. Although security testing capabilities have also improved, the value of individual testing capabilities has changed in response to increased threats and changing application architectures.

This is the fifth report in the series which plots the use of vulnerability disclosure in consumer markets with the introduction of enterprise starting in 2021. For consumers, knowing that a manufacturer has the requisite systems in place to receive, and remedy, known security flaws is a welcome form of assurance. Indeed, we have said many times that the lack of an easily identifiable method for reporting security issues could be likened to a canary in the coal mine – it’s a good health indicator as to how serious they are about security.

Based on a survey of 647 IT professionals and cybersecurity experts, this report explores the multifaceted security and user experience challenges of VPNs to reveal the complexity of today’s access management, vulnerabilities to various cyberattacks, and their potential to impair organizations’ broader security posture. The report also outlines more advanced security models, particularly zero trust, which has firmly established itself as a robust and future-proof framework to secure and accelerate digital transformation.

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.

The report stated that “Equifax lacked a comprehensive IT asset inventory, meaning it lacked a complete understanding of the assets it owned. This made it difficult, if not impossible, for Equifax to know if vulnerabilities existed on its networks. If a vulnerability cannot be found, it cannot be patched.” The Equifax case is one example of an existential and underreported cybersecurity issue: the vast majority of organizations do not have comprehensive visibility of every asset they need to secure.

In our third State of the Cybersecurity Attack Surface report, we continue to see enterprises struggle with many of the same issues they’ve been grappling with—they are blind to IT assets missing endpoint protection, patch management, and, as we now include in this report, vulnerability management. “Stale” IT assets continue to proliferate across corporate networks. Organizations are unnecessarily paying for unused licenses while facing budget cuts and economic challenges.

Our survey results revealed that more companies than ever are viewing GRC as a holistic process and taking steps toward getting a complete view of their risk environment and regulatory obligations. Centralizing strategy, unifying risk and compliance data, and revamping the approach to cybersecurity are becoming more popular strategic objectives among respondents, especially with the rise of AI technology dismantling barriers and fostering collaboration among various GRC functions. This means the criteria for which GRC technology is being evaluated against in the purchase cycle is rapidly expanding.

The goal of the index is simple: We combine on-chain data and real-world data to measure which countries are leading the world in grassroots crypto adoption. Grassroots crypto adoption isn’t about which countries have the highest raw transaction volumes — anyone could probably guess that the biggest, wealthiest countries are far ahead there. Instead, we want to highlight the countries where average, everyday people are embracing crypto the most. To do that, we’ve designed the Global Crypto Adoption Index to identify countries where the most people are putting the greatest share of their wealth into cryptocurrency.

This annual report features the work of 37 sophisticated cybersecurity teams working in partnership to advance 29 open-source projects that improve cyber defense for the whole community. This report captures the energy and passion that Center Participants bring to advancing threat- informed defense for all. Use it as a reference and share it with your teams and colleagues to further change the game on the adversary.

In this year’s report, 500 U.S.-based ITOps professionals express how automation increases their IT agility –reducing costs and enhancing endpoint management capabilities. The report also reveals that less than half (44%) of organizations have high ITOps agility, with the most agile showing mature uses of AI and workflow automation tools.

Our goal is that this report serves as a crucial resource in enhancing your strategies and defenses in the battle to protect your organization’s assets and integrity against insider risks. This survey, capturing responses from 467 cybersecurity professionals across diverse sectors, seeks to uncover the nature of insider threat challenges faced by organizations, focusing on understanding the factors driving these threats, their detection and mitigation complexities, and the effectiveness of insider threat programs.

While third-party risk management is a well-established practice, it’s also continuously evolving. Organizations of all sizes and industries must continually adapt and change to effectively identify, assess, manage, and monitor third-party risks. By analyzing the third-party risk management landscape and practices captured in our survey, organizations can see where they stand compared to their peers and consider that information as they prepare and implement changes this year and beyond.

In this year’s survey, they revisited questions around how organizations are developing effective third-party cyber risk management (C-TPRM) programs with robust technology and services and determining how to best collaborate with third parties on their shared security posture. They also asked some new questions related to how organizations refine their risk management approaches over time. To assure an accurate reflection of industry trends and observations, BlueVoyant commissioned its fourth annual survey undertaken by independent research organization, Opinion Matters, in October 2023. A total of 2,100 respondents represent a variety of executive roles within their organizations, but are all responsible for managing supply chain and cyber risk.

This is the third edition of ThreatQuotient’s annual survey of senior cybersecurity professionals, exploring the topic of cybersecurity automation adoption. Read this report to understand how CISOs and senior cybersecurity professionals are handling the incorporation of cybersecurity automation into their strategies to protect the complex, extended enterprise – and their analyst teams – from the pressures of escalating cyber threats.