Cybersecurity Budgets: What the Data Says About 2026

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine

Sausalito, Calif. – Dec. 1, 2025

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At a time when AI spending is soaring, even raising fears of an AI bubble, what’s happening now and what’s ahead for cybersecurity budgets and priorities as we head into 2026?

Dan Lohrmann, an internationally recognized cybersecurity leader, technologist, keynote speaker and author, answers in his latest Government Technology article, with market data from various sources:

While there were some indicators of a potential budget slowdown in 2025, Cybercrime Magazine predicts that global spending on cybersecurity products and services will exceed $520 billion annually (USD) by 2026, up from $260 billion in 2021;

AI is expanding a $2 trillion total addressable market (TAM) for cybersecurity providers, according to a 2024/2025 study by McKinsey;

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that cybercrime will cost the world $10.5 trillion USD in 2025, up from $6 trillion in 2021, and $3 trillion in 2015;

Additional statistics from CFO Dive, DarkReading, IDC, and Moody’s, brings more perspective to the cybersecurity market.

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