The need for long-term strategic foresight in cybersecurity has never been greater.
Cybersecurity Futures is one of CLTC’s premiere signature programs—a series of foresight-focused, scenario-planning exercises that inform strategic cybersecurity plans around the globe.
Scenarios help organizations build capacity and better prepare to seize opportunities, address challenges, and mitigate risks that exist just over the horizon—helping decision-makers in government, industry, academia, and civil society anticipate and address tomorrow’s cybersecurity challenges.
Conducted in partnership with the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity, read about our 2020, 2025, and 2030 predictions below.
We invite those interested in international, hands-on tabletop exercises to review our 2025 Industry Partner Prospectus for AI-Enabled Cybercrime and explore CLTC’s new initiative in Secure Clean Energy—two lines of work informed by prior Cybersecurity Futures insights.
Check out headlines from the future created for CLTC’s Cybersecurity Futures 2030 project
Cybersecurity Futures 2030: New Foundations
Previous Cybersecurity Scenarios
Cybersecurity Scenarios 2030
Sponsored by Fortinet, Meta, Okta, and Repsol, the Cybersecurity Futures 2030 findings are based on discussions held at a series of in-person workshops conducted throughout 2023, including in Dubai, UAE; Washington, D.C.; Kigali, Rwanda; New Delhi, India; and Singapore, as well as a virtual workshop with participants from multiple European countries and the U.K.
Read Cybersecurity Futures 2030: New Foundations
Cybersecurity Scenarios 2025
In 2018, decision-makers from government, industry, civil society, academia, and other domains gathered for a series of international workshops to engage with and respond to scenarios depicting potential cybersecurity challenges for the year 2025. The resulting report, “Cybersecurity Futures 2025: Insights and Findings,” provides insights to help decision-makers drive operational and tactical adaptation for a rapidly changing technology security environment.
Read Cybersecurity Futures 2025: Insights and Findings
Cybersecurity Scenarios 2020
In 2015, CLTC launched its first set of cybersecurity scenarios created to inform its research agenda and serve as a starting point for conversation among academic researchers, industry practitioners, and government policymakers. These scenarios are not predictions—it’s impossible to make precise predictions about such a complex set of issues. Rather, the scenarios paint a landscape of future possibilities, exploring how emerging and unknown forces could intersect to reshape the relationship between humans and technology—and what it means to be “secure.”
Read “Post-Mortem 2020: Looking Back on CLTC’s Scenarios from 2015” for reflections on what we foresaw — and what we didn’t.
