Cyber Security Outlook 2025 provides a year-in-review analysis of how the threat landscape has evolved and what the next wave of risks could bring. The report tracks the progression from conventional malware to highly adaptive polymorphic variants and autonomous bot-driven attacks, while dissecting the dual-edged role of AI, accelerating threat detection, automation, and incident response on one hand, but also enabling adversaries to launch more targeted, evasive, and scalable attacks on the other.

It highlights the urgent need to secure not only human identities but also the rapidly expanding scope of non-human identities, synthetic data, and application metadata, alongside strengthening defences in emerging risk zones such as Greenfield Manufacturing, Supply Chains, and SMEs. With a strong emphasis on building robust GRC frameworks and advancing collaborative cyber risk management, the report concludes with a geopolitical perspective, mapping the global and regional security policies that will shape India’s cyber resilience in the years ahead.