Cybersecurity 2025: Wake-Up Calls, Shifting Risks And What We Learned
InformationWeek, Monday, January 5th, 2026
How aggressively did organizations adopt new cybersecurity tools in 2025? Was it enough to keep pace with AI threats? And what did DOGE's brief rise reveal about oversight risk?
Cybersecurity has historically been viewed by companies as a loss center rather than a strategic capability. But in 2025, the growing influence of AI made that approach far riskier.
The spread of AI as a tool for both cyberattacks and defense fundamentally changed how and what organizations must plan for in terms of the threat landscape. The trouble with AI is that it can help bad actors automate attacks, in addition to guiding them to tailor attacks to spoof defenses. Defenders, on the other hand, can use AI to enhance awareness of potential threats by identifying attacks that might otherwise go overlooked.