Key Findings
Just 33% of IT leaders strongly agree that their own organisation is prepared to handle a cyberwarfare attack and respond to related threats.
Half (50%) of IT decision-makers surveyed acknowledge their teams lack the necessary expertise to implement and manage AI-driven cybersecurity tools.
87% of IT decision-makers are concerned about the impact of cyberwarfare on their organisations. This is a 34% increase on the last year.
Nearly three-quarters (73%) of IT decision-makers globally express concern about nation-state actors using AI to develop more sophisticated and targeted cyberattacks.
Three-quarters (75%) of IT decision-makers believe cyberwarfare attacks will increasingly target institutions representing free press and independent thought. This is a sharp rise from last year’s 42%.
Nearly 3 in 5 (58%) organisations admit that they currently only respond to threats as they occur, or after the damage has already been done.
85% of IT decision-makers confirm that offensive techniques regularly bypass their security tools.
Only 53% of IT leaders believe that their government can defend its citizens and organisations against an act of cyberwarfare.
64% of IT decision-makers agree that AI is challenging the geopolitical status quo, allowing smaller nations and non-state actors to emerge as near-peer cyber threats.
72% of IT leaders believe that the cyber capabilities of nation-state actors have the potential to trigger a full-scale cyberwar, with devastating consequences for global critical infrastructure.
81% of IT leaders say moving to a proactive cybersecurity posture is a top goal for their organisation in the year ahead.
Across the globe, IT decision-makers consistently point to three dominant state-sponsored threats: Russia (73%), China (73%) and North Korea (40%).