We've curated 13 cybersecurity statistics about CFO to help you understand how the role of Chief Financial Officers is adapting to emerging threats and technologies in financial cybersecurity in 2025.
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73% of U.S. Chief Financial Officers are now involved in cyber strategy in 2025.
59% of organizations plan to seek external support for AI, up from 17% in 2024.
27% of U.S. Chief Financial Officers ranked both cybersecurity and economic uncertainty as their second top concern in 2025.
96% of organizations are now engaging with AI in 2025.
43% of U.S. Chief Financial Officers expressed confidence in cyber prevention and mitigation in 2025, down from 46% in 2024.
42% of organizations are using AI operationally in 2025.
63% of board agendas for U.S. Chief Financial Officers in 2025 focused on profitability.
99% of UK finance leaders surveyed have experienced payments-related cyber incidents in the past two years.
37% of UK CFOs surveyed cite cybersecurity and data privacy concerns as a significant barrier to automation
Nearly all (94%) UK finance leaders surveyed plan to increase cyber investment over the next year.
More than half (51%) of UK finance leaders are preparing a significant uplift in cyber investment next year.
42% of UK CFOs surveyed identified fraud detection and prevention as an area of their finance operations they would most like to improve through automation.
42% of surveyed UK CFOs identified ‘cybersecurity threats’ as the operational risk they were most concerned about over the next 12–24 months, making it the largest percentage of responses for this risk category.