Gartner Identifies Top 6 Cybersecurity Trends for 2024–2025, Urges Shift from Tools to Strategy

Gartner has released its latest cybersecurity outlook, highlighting six key trends that will reshape how organizations — including CPG and retail — manage growing threats in the AI era.

The top concerns include:

1. AI-augmented threat detection

2. Security risks from unstructured data

3. Cybersecurity “tool bloat” leading to burnout

4. Human-centric design in cyber solutions

5. Boardroom accountability for cyber risk

6. Tactical AI use cases that require tighter oversight

   
   

Gartner warns that the growing complexity of tools — without strategic integration — is contributing to team fatigue and blind spots. Meanwhile, the rapid adoption of generative AI and increasing volumes of unstructured data (like video, voice, and documents) are exposing new vulnerabilities.

For consumer goods and retail leaders, the message is clear: cybersecurity is no longer an IT silo. It’s a core business function tied to trust, resilience, and operational continuity.

corpbrief insight:

Cyber risk is now a business risk. Gartner’s latest trends show that the future of cybersecurity belongs to organizations that prioritize cohesion, clarity, and culture — not just controls.