Top trends and priorities focus on cyber security, AI and modernisation

We met with 68 defence and intelligence leaders to understand their top priorities and how they are preparing for and adapting to key trends shaping their organisations. This year, the sector is prioritising:

  • Protecting through cyber security to safeguard digital assets and mitigate cyber threats
  • Accelerating artificial intelligence to enhance threat detection and response capabilities
  • Advancing IT modernisation and cloud solutions to enable greater innovation
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AI ambitions require more holistic data strategies.

42%
cite AI as the top innovation priority over the next 3 years
70%
are exploring GenAI and 76% are exploring traditional AI
94%
cite data management and quality as top improvement initiatives

Digital, IT hiring and collaboration demands shape the business

 

  • Digital demands rise
    70% cite high impacts of technology and digital acceleration, triggering the need for AI and other technology enablers, and better data management (up 5pp year-over-year).
  • Talent hiring challenges persist
    80% indicate continued difficulty hiring IT talent with defence subject matter expertise.
  • Ecosystem collaboration grows in importance
    52% cite high impacts of supply chain reconfiguration, aligned with the need for closer collaboration between defence, industry and society to ensure resilience.

 

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Top cyber security elements

As defence and intelligence organisations continue to strengthen their cyber security programs, they rank the importance of key program elements as follows:

#1

Cyber security governance

#2

Cyber incident response

#3

Information security services

Recommendations for improving data and operations to drive innovation

1

Optimise warfare readiness through proven and innovation solutions and subject matter expertise.

2

Embrace partnerships to capture more talent and innovation to operate with speed, precision and range.

3

Converge AI with cyber security to enhance threat detection, response capabilities, and overall resilience.

4

Promote joint digital solutions across air, land, sea, cyber and space domains.

5

Take a holistic approach to data-driven defence to improve data management and quality.
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