AlertMedia has released its 2025 Threat Outlook report, Emerging Trends in the Threat Landscape, which offers insights concerning global business risks to guide resilience planning in 2025 and beyond.
The Threat Outlook report, now in its third year, sheds light on significant trends shaping the risk landscape, including accelerating climate change, economic instability, rising cyber threats, and geopolitical conflicts, among others.
Emerging Trends in the Threat Landscape explores six prominent threat trends that influenced employee safety, physical security, and business continuity in 2024, and will continue to shape preparedness efforts in 2025:
- Climate extremes: unprecedented climate impacts, including record-breaking heat, floods, and storms that disrupt supply chains and infrastructure.
- Rising global election tensions: in 2025, high-visibility elections will continue amid escalating political tensions and violence.
- Concurrent wars and geopolitical strife: continued conflicts and geopolitical tensions, including concurrent wars, are expected to intensify, impacting security and global supply chains.
- Economic uncertainty: with high inflation, workforce strikes, and economic volatility, businesses face challenges to stability and workforce retention.
- Cybersecurity threats: ransomware and data breaches have surged, exposing companies to severe operational and reputational risks.
- Infrastructure vulnerabilities: aging infrastructure combined with digital system reliance poses serious risks to business continuity.
