Report
The Future of Cyber is Pre-emptive Defense
“Ignoring the shift brought by AI driven cyberthreats poses a significant and escalating risk… by clinging to reactive strategies, leaders expose their organizations to unprecedented danger.” Gartner®, September 2025
Publication date: December 16, 2025
Read reportTHE FUTURE OF CYBER IS PRE-EMPTIVE DEFENSE
If detection-based security worked, the world wouldn’t have a $10-trillon-a-year cybercrime problem.
“Ignoring the shift brought by AI driven cyberthreats poses a significant and escalating risk… by clinging to reactive strategies, leaders expose their organizations to unprecedented danger.” - Gartner®, 2025
Even today’s best AI-enabled firewalls still have to detect an attack—multiple times—before they learn to counter it. By then, it’s too late. Using their own AI tools, the hackers are already exfiltrating data, planting payloads, and covering their tracks.
Can you mitigate that risk? Maybe.
But why mitigate the risk, when you can eliminate it—Pre-emptively