The Top 25 Security Predictions for 2025 (Part 1)

This report compiles leading 2025 cybersecurity predictions across major vendors and analysts, highlighting AI’s dual role in powering both attacks (deepfakes, social engineering, automated campaigns) and defenses (AI-driven SOCs), the continued evolution of ransomware, expanding supply chain and cloud risks, intensifying nation‑state and hacktivist activity, growing IoT/edge exposure, and accelerating post‑quantum cryptography readiness; it also underscores regulatory pressures, identity-centric threats, democratization of cybercrime tooling, and shifting CISO responsibilities, offering high-level guidance to prepare for these converging trends.