The 2025 State of Disruption Report: Business Resilience

What does the 2025 State of Disruption report cover? Business resilience: how it differs from IT resilience, what it is worth, and how the role of the CIO is changing from managing cost and uptime to making decisions that shape the company. The report is titled From Protection to Performance: Cyber Resilience as a Business Strategy.

It draws on AVANT's own research and on published work from Gartner, Accenture, IBM, and IDC.

What is inside

• The business value of resilience. Turning risk into advantage, and why boards now treat cyber risk as a business risk.
• Unified platforms and the resilient CIO. What fragmentation costs, and the questions executives ask IT leaders.
• AI as a force for disruption and defense. Three AI risks to watch, where AI helps, and a practical framework for making it safe to scale.
• Strategic imperatives for IT and risk leaders. What the next planning cycle has to answer.
• Resilience without waste. Cutting cost without adding risk.
• The role of a trusted advisor. An objective outside view, and what it should and should not do.

How to use it

Start with the questions executives ask IT leaders, and check whether you could answer each one today. Where you cannot, that is your list. The related decision guides are in IT resilience strategy for 2026 and AI governance starts before AI.

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