CISOs need to be implementing technologies and processes today that your business will be thankful for in the years to come . output from LLMs to power CaaS offerings and grow the market , such as taking social media reconnaissance and automating that intelligence into neatly packaged phishing kits
• Playbooks grow to include real-life threats : Cybercriminals continually advance their playbooks , with attacks becoming more aggressive and destructive . We predict that adversaries will expand their playbooks to combine cyberattacks with physical , real-life threats . We ’ re already seeing some cybercrime groups physically threaten an organisation ’ s executives and employees in some instances and anticipate that this will become a regular part of many playbooks . We also anticipate that transnational crime – such as drug trafficking , smuggling people or goods and more – will become a regular component of more sophisticated playbooks , with cybercrime groups and transnational crime organisations working together
• Anti-adversary frameworks will expand : As attackers continually evolve their strategies , the cybersecurity community at large can do the same in response . Pursuing global collaborations , creating public-private partnerships and developing frameworks to combat threats are all vital to enhancing our collective resilience . Many related efforts – like the World Economic Forum Cybercrime
Atlas initiative , of which Fortinet is a founding member – are already underway , and we anticipate that more collaborative initiatives will emerge to meaningfully disrupt cybercrime
Ravi Bindra , CISO , SoftwareOne
Cyberattacks remained a serious threat in 2024 . Aided by the proliferation of AI technologies , cyberthreats grew in scale and severity , as malicious actors leveraged smarter more technically advanced tools as part of their approach . In 2025 , CISO strategies need to keep pace – and this starts by investing in AI technologies to bolster cybersecurity practices .
As the use of AI grows , threat actors too are increasingly leveraging it to cause harm to businesses . With worldwide cybercrime costs expected to rise to nearly US $ 24 trillion by 2027 , organisations can ’ t afford to sit still . In fact , Gartner predicts that by 2028 , 25 % of enterprise breaches will be traced back to AI agent abuse from both external and malicious internal actors .
To stay one step ahead , businesses must fight fire with fire and arm their defences with AI tools to protect against malicious attacks . AI does this by using advanced algorithms which detect , predict and tackle threats in real-time at much greater
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