Cybersecurity Is Now a Core Business Discipline

Cyber risk has become the background noise of modern business. We’re seeing nearly two thousand attacks per organization per week in the first quarter of 2025—a 47% rise year-on-year. That surge reflects two realities moving at once: attacks are genuinely increasing because it’s easier and cheaper than ever to mount them, and defenders are getting better at spotting what previously slipped under the radar.

In other words, the problem is growing and we’re measuring it more honestly.

For leaders, the takeaway isn’t panic. It’s clarity. Cybersecurity is now a core business discipline, not an IT specialty. When a household name like Marks & Spencer can take a $400 million hit to trading profits after a major cyber incident, we’ve moved beyond “technology risk” into enterprise resilience. I often say the bad actors only need to get lucky once; defenders must be effective 24 ...