Identity Intelligence
Are you effectively protecting user access and preventing identity-based breaches?
Cisco’s third annual Cybersecurity Readiness Index is an updated guide that addresses the current global cybersecurity landscape and assesses how ready organizations are to face today’s cybersecurity risks.
86% say their organizations have experienced AI-related security incidents in the past 12 months.
45% feel their organization has the internal resources and expertise to conduct comprehensive AI security assessments.
But only 10% of companies believe AI is the most difficult pillar to secure.
52% report that employees do not fully grasp how malicious actors are using AI.
Only 49% of respondents believe employees fully understand AI-related cybersecurity threats.
41% do not have mature controls on data used to train AI models.
60% do not know the specific requests employees make to GenAI tools.
96% of respondents plan to upgrade or restructure their IT infrastructure within the next two years.
53% report that their organizations have more than 10 cybersecurity related positions to fill.
71% believe that a cybersecurity incident is likely to disrupt their organization’s business within the next 12 to 24 months.
Only 34% feel very confident in the resilience of their organization’s current cybersecurity infrastructure against attacks.
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Find out how peers in your region, industry, and market compare when it comes to cybersecurity readiness:
Are you effectively protecting user access and preventing identity-based breaches?
Create a robust identity security strategy that includes comprehensive identity visibility and Zero Trust with Passwordless and/or multi-factor authentication, supported by AI detections.
Is your network infrastructure resilient against infiltration and data exfiltration?
Implement a zero-trust security model to verify every user and device before granting access to the network. This approach helps ensure trusted access and acts as both the first and last line of defense.
Mature companies with the highest level of cybersecurity readiness are most commonly large organizations.
Share of mature companies by company size
Mature companies are better resourced to assess AI threats.
Percentage of companies with internal resources and expertise to conduct comprehensive AI security assesments
Mature companies are setting aside more budget for cybersecurity.
The 2025 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index is based on a double-blind survey of 8,000 private sector business leaders who have cybersecurity responsibilities in their organizations across 30 markets. The research was conducted between January and February 2025 using online interviews.
We looked at 31 different solutions across the five core pillars of cybersecurity protection: Identity Intelligence, Machine Trustworthiness, Network Resilience, Cloud Reinforcement, and AI Fortification. Each company's scores were determined by the stage of deployment of various solutions under each of the five pillars. The scores for each pillar were then combined and weighted to arrive at an overall cybersecurity readiness score for each organization.