Security software to represent 60% of worldwide security market; IDC
Worldwide Security Spending to Increase by 12.2% in 2025 as Global Cyberthreats Rise, Says IDC
As we witness complex and more frequent more frequent and complex cyber attacks, a rising concern for global security the spending from worldwide data projects a steady growth. The amount is staggering $377 billion by 2028 says the IDC report. This is an yr on increase of 12.2% year-on-year increase in security spending in 2025.
“Growing digital transformation and hiking emerging technology adoption across the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region — especially countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) — have pushed the demand significantly for security solutions to face the evolving threat landscapes,” said Eman Elshewy, senior research manager with IDC Data and Analytics.
The security software market growth will be driven especially by cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP).
This also includes Identity and access management software
security analytics software growth, reflecting the special focus that companies will put on integrated cyberthreats detection and response around their whole organizational perimeter.
Key points on security software market growth
- Security services will be the second fastest growing technology group in 2025,
- This is driven by the continuous expansion of managed security services and growths of organizations of all size are included in it. Security hardware will rank third, achieving single-digit but steady growth in 2025.
- This also include the Banking, federal/central government, telecommunications, capital markets, and healthcare provider will be the industries spending the most at the global level on security in 2025.
While the fastest-growing will be capital markets, media and entertainment, and life sciences with an expected year-on-year growth rate of 19.4%, 17.1%, and 16.9%, respectively in 2025.
Organisations developing software’s will develop their strategies based on national and international regulations that still play an important role in guiding organizations’ security strategies — especially in regulated industries .
Cause of rise in the market demand .
The rising malware including virus and Trojan horses are increasing the capacity of cyber criminal and their sophistication in attacks. Cybercriminals deploy attack and employ malware that can take control of devices. With BOYD things are more complicated.
We cannot deny how AI is giving companies a competitive edge and help to fuel more sustainable growth. Forrester predicted that IT services and software will account for nearly two-thirds of global tech spending and, in Europe and North America, this share will be even higher.
A greater drive for, and increased investment in, cybersecurity will underpin the rise in software spend, says Forrester.
In particular, this includes the updating and modernization of legacy and outdated enterprise systems to better protect organisations in the rapidly evolving threat landscape.
While large and very large businesses account for the majority of security spending across all regions, small and medium-sized businesses will continue to increase their investments in security throughout the forecast period to address security gaps and protect their assets and processes as their digital transformation accelerates.
Fig 1 Represent the state of security spending 2025

Organizations still lack the internal expertise, to properly assess or address the security implications of this shift. Cyber criminals are making these threats more sophisticated, which is adding to the urgency. IDC says this steady climb in spending will continue through 2028, hitting $377 billion by then.
Now with IDC research finding reveal investments in security throughout the forecast period to address security gaps and protect organizational assets and processes as their digital transformation accelerates.
Organisations are moving from being secure to being cyber resilient
Right now, business of every models are almost uniformly reliant on digital technology and any disruption here seriously impacts operations and revenue. Cyber criminals are on look out for every scope to launch stealthies attack.
Almost all security strategies often focus on proactively identifying and mitigating threats. Now at this hour as we stand in 2025 we need greater focus on cyber resilience.
Adopting a holistic approach in cyber security is walking the path of cyber resilience and we at Intruceptlabs working in tandem to weave the fabric of security in every workflow that supports this agility.
Recently IntruceptLabs won the Elevate 2024 Program, and Founded with the mission of “Making applications & digital space safer for businesses,” is encouraging for us as an organisation.
Sources: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prEUR253264525