He spending that end users will carry out in information security will arrive this yearaccording to the forecasts of the Gartner consultant, at 213,000 million of dollars. A remarkable increase compared to last year, when this investment remained in 193,000 million. And he will not stop growing in the future, since everything indicates that in 2026 he will continue on the rise. Gartner bets because it will increase by 12.5% next year, up to 240,000 million dollars.
Security software is the area in which this investment is growing more notably, since more and more companies go from local systems to those based on the cloud, which leads to the appearance of new safety risks. Thus, to invest in it 94,960 million dollars in 2024 will go to 105,940 million dollars this year.
In 2026, end users will invest 121,154 million dollars in software to be more protected in front of cyberamezas, with the management of cloud security posture, as well as the cloud access security brokers as the main drivers of investment in this segment.
Among the main factors so that it is necessary to increase cybersecurity between 2024 and 2026 are the increase in threats and the expansion of the use of AI and the generative AI, by users of artificial intelligence as of the attackers. Both will continue to be first -level factors for investment growth both in short and in the medium term.
As for security services, the expense on them on the side of the end users will exceed 77,130 million dollars to 83,812 million dollars in 2025. In 2026, this expense will increase to 92,780 million dollars.
Finally, the network security area, the least expense for end users together, reached 21,317 million dollars of investment in 2024, to rise to 23,273 million dollars in 2025, and predictably at 25,825 million dollars in 2026.
Ruggero Contu, senior director of Gartner analysishe pointed out about these forecasts that «The established security expense will continue normally, but some organizations are showing more caution with any new safety expense in this climate so uncertain and challenging. However, the increase in defense budgets, growing threats, the greatest regulatory pressure and the greatest awareness of cybersecurity, especially among small and medium enterprises, will maintain cybersecurity spending at high levels in medium and long term«.
