WTW Insights
Oct 6, 2025
Guest Article
market trends, founders, insurance, artificial intelligence
Contributions from Co-Founder J. Foster Davis in this thought leadership piece. AI is reshaping cybersecurity in 2025, empowering defenders and attackers alike. Success lies in balancing innovation, ethics, and resilience to stay ahead in this evolving digital battlefield.
In 2025, the cybersecurity battlefield is being fundamentally reshaped by AI integrations. Malicious actors are exploiting AI to craft increasingly sophisticated threats, with the manipulation of AI systems becoming alarmingly common. Social engineering campaigns now leverage deepfakes to mimic executives with unprecedented precision, bypassing traditional cyber defenses.
By employing AI bots at scale to automate phishing attacks, cyber-criminals are creating a tidal wave of data that overwhelms even the most exhaustive human analysis, and they are often succeeding in staying one step ahead of defenders.
Also within reach is the ability for a defender to monitor and test their defenses – beyond scanning and beyond penetration testing – to perform continuous “red teaming” – moving beyond annual ceremonial occurrences as is observed within most organizations, if at all. This advanced scrimmaging on live systems can help defenders truly understand the hacker’s perspective and allow organizations to allocate resources in the most optimal way, even outmaneuvering attackers before the strike.
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