According to the forecasts of the IDC consultant, the Investment in cybersecurity at the global level will grow this year 2025 by 12.2% With respect to 2024. This increase is mainly due to the growing complexity and frequency of cyber attacks, for which the attackers now take advantage of the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence. Both conventional and generative.
Therefore, companies and organizations around the world are beginning to take measures to improve their defenses. This leads to a budget growth that they dedicate to it, which will lead to cybersecurity to reach 377,000 million dollars in 2028.
The United States and Western Europe will continue to concentrate more than 70% of the safety investment of the total in 2025. However, the expense in this section will grow worldwide, with the greatest increases in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East and Africa.
The security software will take the largest investment in 2025, concentrating more than half of the security market in 2025. It will also be the one that grows the most, with an interannual increase of 14.4%. This market will grow especially in the areas of Native Applications Platforms, Identity and Access Management Software, and Security Analytical Software.
This highlights the special importance that companies will give during this year the detection and integrated response of cyber -cyber threats, as well as the response to them throughout the perimeter of organizations.
The second safety group that grows will be the security services, due to the continuous expansion of the security managed services, in which companies of all sizes will concentrate more and more attention, since they see them as an efficient and flexible way to deal with new security problems. Finally, security hardware will occupy third growth, although below 10%, in 2025.
The sectors that will invest in security in 2025 will be those of banking, central and regional governments, telecommunications, capital markets and health suppliers. But those who will have a faster growth in protection investment will be capital, leisure and media and life science markets. Its security expense will grow this year 19.4%, 18.1%and 16.9%, respectively.
Although multinationals and large companies will concentrate most of the investment in security in all regions, SMEs will be the ones that most increase their cybersecurity expense until 2028with the aim of ending the security gaps and protecting their assets and processes while they continue with their digital transformation.
