17% of cyberattacks forecasted to involve GenAI
17% of cyberattacks and data leaks will by 2027 involve generative AI. Since the release of GenAI, attackers are increasingly using tools along with large language models (LLMs) to carry out large-scale attacks, marketing research firm Gartner says in a forecast.
Worldwide end-user spending on information security is projected to total $212 billion in 2025, an increase of 15.1% from 2024. Global information security end-user spending is estimated to reach $183.9 billion in 2024.
“The continued heightened threat environment, cloud movement and talent crunch are pushing security to the top of the priorities list and pressing chief information security officers (CISOs) to increase their organisation’s security spend,” says Shailendra Upadhyay, senior researcher at Gartner.
“Furthermore, organisations are currently assessing their endpoint protection platform and endpoint detection and response needs and making adjustments to boost their operational resilience and incident response following the CrowdStrike outage.”
The company says that the adoption of AI and GenAI continue to increase investments in security software markets like application security, data security and privacy, and infrastructure protection.
“Through 2025, GenAI will trigger a spike in the cybersecurity resources required to secure it, leading to an expected 15% increase on security software spending.”
“The global skills shortage in the cybersecurity industry is a major factor driving investment in the security services market (security consulting services, security professional services and managed security services) which is expected to grow faster than the other security segments”, the forecast says.
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