The Global State of CPS Security 2025: Navigating Risk in an Uncertain Economic Landscape

Key Findings

1. CPS Risk Grows in Tandem with Uncertainty

Economic stressors are forcing security leaders to re-strategize CPS protection, and cited risk reduction to these critical assets as a potential trouble spot. 49% of respondents, for example, said supply chain changes caused by shifting global economic policies are increasing CPS cyber risk. 

The reduction of cyber risk to key assets and processes, impact on organizations’ overall understanding of risk exposure, and meeting regulatory mandates were cited as the top three operational impacts.

2. Compliance, Regulatory Changes—and a Coming Overhaul?

Respondents were confident in the state of their current CPS and compliance strategies, but more than three-fourths of respondents (76%) said that any upheaval in the regulatory landscape could upend existing investments and established best practices that ensure compliance.

3. Taking a Second Look at Supply Chain Security, Remote Access

The risks of CPS exposure are too great, and the potential for disruption to assets and processes are too devastating not to have an adequate handle on a partner as a potential threat vector. 46% of respondents said their organizations had experienced a breach via third-party vendor access and business operations were disrupted. Furthermore, any gaps in vendor contracts were discovered only post-breach.