The Cybersecurity Club Top Risk Review H1 2025

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1. Cybersecurity Risks

In your personal opinion, please score on a scale of 1 - 10 the materiality of each of the following cybersecurity risks facing your industry. Please consider both likehood and impact of the risk when applying a score.

1 = Very low likelihood and impact (lowest score)
3 = Low to moderate likelihood and impact
5 = Moderate likelihood and impact (medium score)
8 = High likelihood and impact
10 = Severe likelihood and impact (highest score)

2. Risk Areas Overview

Please review the following risk areas and select all that you believe are relevant or concerning for your organization in the first half of 2025. These cover a broad range of cybersecurity, operational, regulatory, and emerging threats, including ransomware, phishing, supply chain attacks, AI-driven risks, and geopolitical factors. Your input will help us understand current risk priorities and challenges.

Threat Landscape & Attack Vectors

Operational & IT Risks

Regulatory & Compliance

Emerging Risks & Trends

3. Effectiveness of Risk Management

For each of the risks, please indicate the effectiveness of your organisations current risk management practices to preventing or mitigating its impact.

Rating Scale:

1️⃣ Ineffective – No clear strategy, high vulnerability, or past failures in managing this risk.
2️⃣ Minimally Effective – Some measures in place, but significant gaps remain.
3️⃣ Somewhat Effective – Basic controls exist, but they may not be consistently applied or sufficient.
4️⃣ Moderately Effective – Controls are in place and somewhat effective, but improvements are needed.
5️⃣ Highly Effective – Strong risk management practices, regularly tested and updated, with minimal exposure.

4. H2 2035 Risk Trends

For each of the risk types, do you expect your score to increase, decrease or remain the same in six months time?

5. Risk Landscape

In our most recent risk landscape studies, geopolitical uncertainty and AI were listed as drivers across several risks. We are interested to better understand how this is affecting the material risk landscape.

Geopolitics

5.1 In your opion, what are the top 5 risks most advserly impacted by geopolitical uncertainty and tensions? Please focus your response on the present time as well as the next six months.

6. AI / GenAI

In your opinon, what are the top five risks most adverely impacted by the ongoing rapid development and adoption of AI? Please focus your response on the present time as well as the next six months