Gartner’s Top Cybersecurity Trends of 2025 report highlighted the transformative influence of generative AI and the growing need for organizations to balance threat prevention with cyber resilience.Gartner announced its top trends Monday during the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney, Australia. The full trends report, available for Gartner clients, outlines nine major trends, covering overlapping themes of enabling transformation and embedding resilience.
1. GenAI is shifting data security strategies
The need to protect and manage both GenAI training data and data produced by AI is changing many organizations’ approaches to data security. GenAI contributes to an increased prevalence of unstructured data, such as text and images, as opposed to the structured data of traditional databases. Therefore, there is a growing demand for data security posture management (DSPM) solutions equipped to keep up with the unique needs of booming GenAI use.The use of synthetic data for AI training is also emerging as an alternative to traditional methods for anonymizing training datasets. Synthetic data is generated by AI models and mimics real-world data, increasing the…
