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Gartner Forecasts Global Information Security Spending to Grow 15% in 2025

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Gartner Forecasts Global Information Security Spending to Grow 15% in 2025

Gartner Predicts that by 2027, 17% of Total Cyberattacks Will Involve Generative AI

Worldwide end-user spending on information security is projected to total $212 billion in 2025, an increase of 15.1% from 2024, according to a new forecast from Gartner, Inc. In 2024, global information security end-user spending is estimated to reach $183.9 billion.

End-user spending on information security in Thailand is projected to total 18.4 billion THB in 2025, an increase of 12.3% from 2024, according to a new forecast from Gartner, Inc. In 2024, information security end-user spending in Thailand is estimated to reach 16.4 billion THB

“The continued heightened threat environment, cloud movement and talent crunch are pushing security to the top of the priorities list and pressing chief information security officers (CISOs) to increase their organization’s security spend,” said Shailendra Upadhyay, Senior Research Principal at Gartner.

“Furthermore, organizations are currently assessing their endpoint protection platform (EPP) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) needs and making adjustments to boost their operational resilience and incident response following the CrowdStrike outage.”

The adoption of AI and generative AI (GenAI) continue to increase investments in security software markets like application security, data security and privacy, and infrastructure protection. Through 2025, GenAI will trigger a spike in the cybersecurity resources required to secure it, leading to an expected 15% increase on security software spending (see Table 1).

Table 1. Information Security End-User Spending by Segment, Worldwide, 2023-2025 (Millions of U.S. Dollars)

Segment 2023 Spending 2023 Growth (%) 2024 Spending 2024 Growth (%) 2025 Spending 2025 Growth (%)
Security Software 76,574 13.6 87,481 14.2 100,692 15.1
Security Services 65,556 13.6 74,478 13.6 86,073 15.6
Network Security 19,985 6.2 21,912 9.6 24,787 13.1
Total 162,115 12.7 183,872 13.4 211,552 15.1

Source: Gartner (August 2024)

Since the release of GenAI, attackers are increasingly employing tools along with large language models (LLMs) to carry out large-scale social engineering attacks, and Gartner predicts that by 2027, 17% of total cyberattacks/data leaks will involve generative AI.

As organizations continue to move to the cloud, Gartner analysts expect an increase in cloud security solutions, and the market share of cloud-native solutions will grow. The combined cloud access security brokers (CASB) and cloud workload protection platforms (CWPP) market is estimated to reach $8.7 billion in 2025, up from forecasted $6.7 billion in 2024.

The global skills shortage in the cybersecurity industry is a major factor driving investment in the security services market (security consulting services, security professional services and managed security services) which is expected to grow faster than the other security segments.


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