The 2025 Cybersecurity Pulse Report: Advanced Threat Research Edition
Dan Verton
Strategic Intelligence From the Cybersecurity Front Lines
The Cybersecurity Pulse Report: 2025 Edition delivers the latest frontline intelligence, capturing the critical threats, innovations and governance debates shaping today’s security agenda.
Synthesized through ISMG’s AI-powered tools, the report distills executive interviews, technical research and practitioner insights into a road map for resilience, innovation and competitive advantage.
As the sixth installment in ISMG’s Pulse Report series, the October 2025 edition reflects a sharp evolution in cybersecurity strategy: from tuning defenses to strategic redesign in the age of agentic AI, systemic risk and multivector adversaries.
Five Core Themes Defining 2025
- AI at the Core – agentic models, offensive AI and why guardrails fail;
- Hardware to Cloud – exploits spanning firmware persistence to IAM sprawl;
- Multivector Threats – deepfakes, ghost calls and SOC fatigue as human exploitation scales;
- Governance and Policy – AI liability, systemic risk and the new regulatory reckoning;
- Innovation in Defense – gaming-inspired architectures, hardware resilience and threat-led security.
Why Download the Full Report?
- Benchmark your 2025–2026 roadmap against global security priorities;
- Understand how agentic AI, firmware exploits and systemic cyber risk are reshaping strategy;
- Gain insights directly from CISOs, policymakers, researchers and technologists;
- Validate your defenses against real-world adversary behaviors;
- Anticipate future regulations and governance requirements.
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