Summary Bullets:

• In its report on the outlook for cybersecurity in 2025, the World Economic Forum observed enterprises are contending with a daunting threat environment while simultaneously trying to cover gaps in their internal security skill sets.

• Based on a survey of 321 security professionals and more in-depth interviews with 43 CISOs, the research highlighted discrepancies in the level of confidence in their cyber resilience by organizational size.

Findings from the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Security Outlook Report 2025, conducted in partnership with Accenture, underscores the challenges enterprises and smaller organizations are facing amid global turmoil, relentless threat actors, and fast-evolving technology innovation. The results of the WEF survey of security professionals in 57 countries also show major differences in organizations based on size. Thirty-five percent (35%) of small organizations are concerned that their cyber resilience is lacking, seven times more than in 2022. Large enterprises report the opposite, with half as many saying their cyber resilience was unsatisfactory.