This report presents findings from Cybersecurity Futures 2030, a global research initiative focused on exploring how digital security could evolve over the next five to seven years. The goal of this project is to help shape a future-focused research and policy agenda that is widely applicable across countries and sectors.

The findings are based on discussions held at a series of in-person workshops conducted throughout 2023 in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Washington DC (USA), Kigali (Rwanda), New Delhi (India) and Singapore, as well as a virtual workshop with participants from multiple European countries and the United Kingdom.

Key findings:

• Acceleration in technology and business model innovation (both licit and criminal) will underpin the new digital security landscape for 2030.
• Shoring up trust will be a key goal of cybersecurity efforts over the next decade. The online spread of mis- and disinformation are now core cybersecurity concerns.
• Public-private partnerships will be imperative to move the needle on combating sovereign and criminal cyberattacks and information operations but new incentive structures will be needed to achieve such partnerships.
• Decision-makers across regions are struggling to balance technology value chain interdependencies and self-sufficiency.