Threat predictions for industrial enterprises 2025

This report outlines key drivers shaping the global industrial/OT cyberthreat landscape, including intensified targeting of R&D and supply chains amid innovation races and sanctions, emerging risks from AI/ML and data/model theft, and overlooked exposures in telecom infrastructure, IIoT devices, and remote connectivity gear. It highlights the growing adoption of Linux in OT and associated security maturity gaps, the compounding effect of long and fragile supply chains (illustrated by incidents like CDK Global), and the erosion of “security by obscurity” as accessible ICS tooling lowers barriers to cyber-physical attacks. Overall, it urges industrial enterprises to reassess threat models to include telecom MITM scenarios, strengthen vendor risk management, and harden OT/IIoT/Linux environments against targeted attacks.