Alex Woodward, Senior Vice President - Consulting Delivery, Cyber Security, CGI in the UK & Australia has predicted the following Top trends in Cyber Security in 2025
Tactical deployment of AI
“Going into the new year, we will see organisations adopt a hyper-focused approach to AI making more targeted and impactful deployments. Looking for genuine use cases to protect themselves from surface-level attacks and identifying inefficiencies but comes with challenges such as high energy usage costs.
Smarter scams and smarter solutions
“Whilst scammers step up the cyber war with more AI-powered social engineering phishing, organisations will fight back aided by ever more sophisticated AI-enabled tools.
“As the tech arms race grows, humanity will be a differentiator. We’ll see an impact of students joining the workforce from more varied academic backgrounds – those studying psychology as opposed to coding for instance.
The Quantum kick-off
“Quantum computing has the power to disrupt the cybersecurity landscape next year. Although its growth has been rapid, the technology remains in its infancy and its eventual widespread adoption will bring significant challenges. Upgrading systems to quantum-resistant encryption will not be a simple task; quantum computing excels in specific types of mathematical operations but falls short in others, resulting in newly exploitable weaknesses in some commonly used encryption methods. As a result, industries heavily reliant on long-term data protection face an increased risk of breaches. To mitigate this, organisations must thoroughly understand their encryption methods and the required protection timelines for their sensitive data."
