Phil Muncaster
The world’s business leaders are worried. Donald Trump’s return to power and the growing hostility of China and Russia are upending 80 years of international rules-based order. In its place is emerging a more chaotic and volatile world, where conflict is commonplace and state actor aggression online continues to escalate.
This is a challenging time to be a CISO. The risk of state-backed cyber-attacks and those of nationalist hacktivists and opportunistic cybercriminals continues to rise.
As does the potential for collateral damage.
Corporate security leaders will need to adapt rapidly to these changing circumstances, or risk being exposed by a ruthless new era of geopolitical tension.
Rising Global Tensions Spill into Cyber
Geopolitics runs throughout the 2025 assessment from the World Economic Forum (WEF), which produces an annual report on global risks devised from interviews with thousands of business leaders and risk experts.
According to the paper, the risk “most likely to present a material crisis on a global scale in 2025” is a “state-based armed conflict.”
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