AI Adoption on the Rise Among CISOs to Handle Budget Constraints and Boost Resilience: Findings from Wipro Report
Wipro Limited, a leading technology services and consulting company, has recently released its "State of Cybersecurity Report 2025." The report focuses on how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping cybersecurity operations and driving cost optimization.
According to the report, AI is playing a significant role in improving threat detection and response times, building enhanced incident response capabilities, and enabling predictive and preventive security. However, the report also emphasizes that while AI significantly enhances detection and response capabilities, it also expands the threat landscape by enabling more sophisticated cyberattacks such as AI-generated phishing, malware, and deepfakes.
Regarding cost optimization, Wipro is deploying its proprietary AI platform in cybersecurity operations for clients to streamline workflows, enhance regulatory compliance, and reduce IT operational costs. AI-powered predictive and preventive operations and automation help improve incident resolution times, further stabilizing operations and minimizing business disruptions.
Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are using several strategies to optimize cybersecurity costs based on insights aligned with Wipro’s approach. These strategies include implementing AI-driven automation to reduce manual workload, enhancing cybersecurity awareness and accountability, adopting unified AI-led managed security services, and focusing on predictive and preventive security operations with AI.
To leverage AI for cyber resilience across the organization, CISOs must work with their peers to get the correct data governance in place and set up regular comprehensive cybersecurity training programs for all employees.
The report surveyed over 100 global cybersecurity leaders and consultants and found that AI-driven automation and cost optimization are among the main cybersecurity priorities for organizations, with 30 percent of respondents prioritizing AI automation. Implementing Zero Trust security frameworks is a top investment priority for 97 percent of survey respondents.
Wipro has over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries and offers a consulting-led approach and partnerships in the AI ecosystem and innovation network to help clients build AI-powered cybersecurity operations. The company's forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including fluctuations in earnings, competition, client concentration, and political instability. More detailed risks are described in Wipro's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Wipro's media relations can be contacted at [email protected] for more information about the report and its findings. The company helps clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses.
Cloud technology integration in cybersecurity operations is a growing trend, as Wipro Limited is harnessing AI and digital transformation to optimize client security through their proprietary AI platform. This technology streamlines workflows, enhances regulatory compliance, and reduces IT operational costs, thereby enabling more proactive cybersecurity.
While AI significantly enhances threat detection and response capabilities, it also expands the threat landscape by enabling more sophisticated cyberattacks, such as AI-generated phishing, malware, and deepfakes. As such, strengthening cybersecurity awareness and accountability within an organization, emphasizing predictive and preventive security, and implementing AI-led managed security services are essential strategies for maximizing AI's potential in cybersecurity.
Deepfakes, AI-generated phishing, and malware pose a new set of challenges that companies need to address in their cybersecurity initiatives. To leverage AI for cyber resilience, organizations must prioritize data governance, establish comprehensive cybersecurity training programs, and invest in Zero Trust security frameworks.
