'Cocktail of Cyber-Risk' Should Stir Concerns Among CISOs

Executive summary: The piece summarizes the WEF Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025, highlighting an increasingly complex and interconnected cyber-risk landscape where misinformation, rising AI risks, and cyber espionage shape business exposure; it notes the reclassification of certain tech issues as economic risks, the need for CISOs to align with business and regulatory priorities (e.g., EU AI Act), the challenge of short-termism in boards, and widening gaps between top-performing and resource-constrained organizations that amplify supply-chain and geographic resilience disparities.