2025 Security Predictions: The Forces Reshaping Cybersecurity

### Executive Summary SecurityScorecard leaders forecast a more hostile cyber landscape in 2025 driven by stricter regulation (including potential software bans), increased nation-state espionage and quiet infrastructure access, accelerating supply-chain breaches, fragmented AI regulation, and sophisticated AI-enabled social engineering — all compounded by growing pressure on CISOs; they advise continuous supplier monitoring, stronger public-private cooperation, regulatory harmonization, and empowering security leaders to mitigate emerging risks.