CYFIRMA’s AI Platform Shows $5.5B Impact in Preemptive Cyber Defense

SINGAPORE and TOKYO – December 29, 2025 – In a striking demonstration of the shift towards proactive cybersecurity, global firm CYFIRMA has released its 2025 impact report, detailing how its AI-powered DeCYFIR platform saved clients from a potential US$5.5 billion in financial damages. The report showcases a significant move away from traditional reactive security measures, highlighting a year where millions of cyber risks were neutralized before they could inflict harm.

By providing early warnings weeks or even months in advance, the platform has empowered organizations across the globe to anticipate and disrupt threats, marking a pivotal change in the fight against sophisticated cyber adversaries. The year-end recap provides a rare, quantifiable look at the return on investment for predictive cybersecurity, a field where success is often measured by attacks that never happen.

A Paradigm Shift from Reactive to Predictive Defense

For years, the cybersecurity industry has been dominated by a reactive posture: building digital walls and waiting for attackers to strike, then scrambling to contain the damage. CYFIRMA's results suggest this paradigm is being successfully challenged by an approach known as External Threat Landscape Management (ETLM). Instead of waiting for an alarm, ETLM focuses on providing organizations with an outside-in, hacker's perspective of their own vulnerabilities and the threats coalescing against them.

Powered by a revolutionary 9-pillar AI architecture, the DeCYFIR platform operates on the principle of preemption. It continuously scours the open web, dark web, and niche hacker forums to gather intelligence, correlate threat data, and predict where and how an attack is likely to occur. This allows security teams to move from a state of constant firefighting to strategic defense, patching the most critical vulnerabilities and neutralizing threats before they are launched.

"DeCYFIR's 2025 advancements in preemptive external threat landscape management, predictive threat intelligence, elevation of human as cyber sensor, and deception technology demonstrate AI-driven cybersecurity delivers tangible protection and massive value," said Kumar Ritesh, Founder, CEO, and Chairman of CYFIRMA. "We remain committed to outpacing adversaries and safeguarding our clients' most critical assets."

This approach is gaining significant traction in critical sectors. The report notes that over 20% of the platform's more than 900 enterprise clients are federal agencies and governments. The technology sector follows with a 20% share, with manufacturing (12%) and finance (8%) also representing significant portions of the user base, underscoring the universal need for predictive defense.

The Engine of Proaction: AI at Unprecedented Scale

The sheer volume of data processed and actions taken by the DeCYFIR platform in 2025 illustrates a scale of defense that is impossible to achieve with human analysts alone. The AI engine is the core of this capability, enabling the platform to track more than 5,235 distinct threat actor groups and monitor over 7,298 active hacking campaigns worldwide.

This vast intelligence-gathering operation resulted in tangible defensive actions:

• 7,158 Early Warnings: Specific, actionable alerts were sent to clients, giving them a crucial head start to bolster their defenses against imminent threats.
• 2.1 Million Cyber Risks Neutralized: By identifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, the platform enabled the elimination of millions of potential entry points for attackers.
• 1.8 Million Attack Surfaces Managed: DeCYFIR provided continuous visibility into organizations' digital footprints, including forgotten servers, exposed cloud assets, and shadow IT, allowing for comprehensive risk management.
• 682,000 Unique Threat Indicators: The platform discovered hundreds of thousands of new, original indicators of compromise, enriching its predictive capabilities and keeping clients ahead of emerging attack techniques.

This level of automation and intelligence allows security teams to focus their limited resources on the most pressing dangers, dramatically increasing their efficiency and effectiveness.

Securing the Entire Ecosystem: From Supply Chains to Deepfakes

Modern cyber threats rarely confine themselves to a single organization's network. The DeCYFIR report emphasizes the platform's role in securing the entire digital ecosystem, a critical capability in an interconnected world. The platform actively manages and protects 82,000 third-party entities, addressing the pervasive threat of supply chain attacks, where adversaries compromise a trusted vendor to gain access to their ultimate target.

Furthermore, the platform's brand and digital risk management capabilities protected 27,582 top-level domains from threats like phishing, impersonation, and brand abuse. In a sign of the times, the AI was also instrumental in identifying and mitigating 6,456 deepfakes—AI-generated videos or audio clips designed for fraud, disinformation, or social engineering. This capability is becoming increasingly vital as generative AI tools become more sophisticated and accessible to malicious actors.

To actively engage and trap attackers, CYFIRMA also operates 16 industry-specific deception environments. These tailored decoy systems mimic real IT infrastructure, luring in attackers to reveal their tools, techniques, and ultimate objectives in a safe, monitored environment. This provides invaluable intelligence that is used to further strengthen real-world defenses.

Empowering the Human Defender

While driven by advanced AI, the platform's philosophy is not to replace human experts but to augment them. The "Ask DeCYFIR" AI Agent has empowered more than 14,600 security professionals, allowing them to ask natural language questions and receive contextualized threat intelligence instantly, effectively democratizing access to high-level security insights.

This focus on human augmentation extends to the broader workforce. In 2025, CYFIRMA delivered 83 intelligence-led cyber education programs. Unlike generic security awareness training, these programs are adapted based on real-time threat intelligence, training employees to recognize and report the specific types of attacks they are most likely to face.

By combining predictive AI, comprehensive external visibility, and human empowerment, CYFIRMA's 2025 results paint a clear picture of the future of cybersecurity—one where defenders are no longer just waiting for the next attack, but actively anticipating and neutralizing it before it begins.