Every year around this time, industry experts and analysts look at the top cybersecurity trends, predictions and challenges for the next year.
Experts forecasted a rise in generative AI (GenAI) and large language models in 2024, as well as continued ransomware attacks and third-party supply chain challenges. These trends rang true as threat actors used GenAI to create more convincing social engineering attacks, customers of data storage vendor Snowflake experienced breaches and Change Healthcare was hit with a disruptive ransomware attack.
Let’s look at what industry experts foresee for 2025.
1. CISOs step back from AI adoption
AI was all the rage in 2024, but don’t expect adoption to continue as strong in 2025 — at least not by security teams. In fact, Forrester Research expects adoption of GenAI for security use cases to see a 10% reduction in the coming year.
One barrier to adoption cited by the analyst firm’s customer base is inadequate budget. Cody Scott, analyst at Forrester, said another reason adoptions rates will be deprioritized by CISOs is that customers aren’t seeing the benefit for security and are frustrated with the current AI experience.
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