Organisations are investing more heavily in cybersecurity than ever before. New platforms and tools, expanding budgets, and skilled teams should, in theory, deliver stronger protection. Yet despite these investments, many businesses continue to suffer significant operational disruption and financial loss from cyber incidents – often because they have not embedded the missing layer: business context.
As cyber threats grow in both volume and sophistication – fuelled by the expanding attack surface and the rapid rise of AI-powered attacks – security teams find themselves drowning in exposures they struggle to contextualise. Millions of vulnerabilities may exist, but without the ability to map those exposures to asset criticality and business impact, organisations remain reactive, not strategic.
The 2025 State of Cyber Risk Assessment Report, conducted with Dark Reading, found that nearly half of organisations have a formal cyber risk program. The issue is the majority still approach cyber risk as a technical problem rather than a business problem. They focus on vulnerability counts, patch cycles, and severity scores – often without assessing whether the risk in question…
