Cybersecurity Effectiveness Sees First Improvement in Three Years

By Netvora Tech News

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The recent RSA Conference 2025 brought a rare and encouraging trend for security leaders: overall cybersecurity effectiveness has improved for the first time in three years. According to Scale Venture Partners' (SVP) 2025 Cybersecurity Perspectives Report, the average effectiveness of cybersecurity protections increased to 61% efficacy this year from 48% in 2023.

SVP's report highlights a significant improvement in security posture, with 70% of security leaders most protected against general phishing attacks, and only 28% of firms reporting compromise.

The report also reveals that 77% of CISOs believe protecting AI/ML models and data pipelines is a priority to improve their security posture by 2025, up from 55% last year. Notably, given the influx of new agentic AI solutions announced at RSAC, 75% of firms expressed interest in leveraging AI to automate SOC investigations using AI agents to triage large volumes of security alerts and prevent security incidents.

SVP's rise in efficacy numbers isn't accidental; they result from CISOs and their teams adopting automation at scale while successfully consolidating their platforms and reducing gaps attackers had walked through in the past.

Agentic AI Advancements

Agentic AI is moving rapidly beyond its minimum viable product phase, with a growing number of vendors announcing AI-based security agents, apps, and platforms at RSAC 2025.

Gen AI: Discovering Nation-State Tradecraft and Countering It

As agentic AI solutions continue to evolve, the goal is to develop a general AI (Gen AI) capable of discovering nation-state tradecraft and killing it. This would represent a significant breakthrough in cybersecurity, enabling organizations to stay ahead of sophisticated threats and protect their assets more effectively.