Businesses Double Down on AI and Cloud, Despite Cyber Defense Oversights

A consistent theme in Unisys’ report is that companies are eagerly embracing new technologies like artificial intelligence at the expense of shoring up their cyber defenses against well-known threats. At the same time as many organizations eschew access-control technologies, for example, roughly three-quarters of them told Unisys that they plan to spend more money on cloud services that are routinely breached through identity-based attacks.

Many companies remain unprepared to deal with the security threats that experts say could arrive with the advent of quantum computers. Roughly three-quarters of respondents (71%) said their cyber defenses were “insufficient to withstand the challenges posed by quantum cryptography incursions.” In addition, only 14% of organizations told Unisys that their IT infrastructure could support post-quantum-cryptography — a potentially alarming statistic given that the U.S. government has described cryptographic migration as a business and national-security imperative. (Roughly half of respondents said they were planning those migrations.)

One of the Unisys report’s most notable sections addresses the conflicting perspectives of corporate executives and their IT leaders. These professionals disagree about whether cybersecurity measures make it too difficult to analyze and share data (63% of business executives say this, compared with 35% of IT leaders) and about whether cloud security policies significantly impede innovation (68% versus 37%).

Submitted by Regan Williams on Tue, 08/19/2025 - 10:28