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Cybersecurity’s Strategic
Inflection Point: A Senior
Leadership Agenda for 2027

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Contents


Preface                                                       3

Executive summary                                              4

Introduction: Governing cybersecurity as an economic risk                5

Pillar 1  Building a common language for cybersecurity                  7

Pillar 2  From cost centre to business value enabler                    10

Pillar 3  Cybersecurity as an economic stabilizer                       13

Pillar 4  Financing digital resilience                                 17

Pillar 5 A call to action for senior leaders                            19

Appendix: Methodology                                         22

Contributors                                                  23

Endnotes                                                    25





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October 2026    Cybersecurity’s Strategic Inflection Point:
             A Senior Leadership Agenda for 2027



   Preface



             The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council   The Council organized its work around five
            on Cybersecurity brings together leading thinkers      workstreams, each addressing a different dimension
              from business, government, academia and civil         of this gap:
                society to examine how cyber risk is reshaping
               the global economy.1 The Council translates          –  A common language for cybersecurity asks
                that understanding into direction for the boards,          whether boar