Resilience has established itself as an axis of modern cybersecurity. In a context where organizations assume that they will suffer a cyber attack, it is not a question of “if”, but rather “when”, the priority has evolved to include everything from prevention and detection to containment, recovery and operational continuity.
This new approach was the common thread of the IDC Cybersecurity Summit Barcelona 2025, held on October 8 at the Miramar GL Barcelona Hotel, which brought together more than 150 professionals from the cybersecurity ecosystem—including CISOs, analysts, technology leaders and professionals in the sector—to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of an environment in constant transformation.
Resilience: the new frontier of digital security
The event opened with the intervention of Laura Caballero, general director of the Cybersecurity Agency of Cataloniawho highlighted the role of cybersecurity as a driver of innovation within organizations and as a backbone of competitiveness.
Next, Joel Stradling, Research Director of IDC Europeanalyzed how artificial intelligence is driving a new era of resilience, in which anticipation, automation and continuous learning become critical success factors.
From prevention to response: a paradigm shift
The event served as a platform to debate How artificial intelligence, data, automation and people converge to deliver an agile and effective response to increasingly sophisticated incidents.
During the day, we delved deeper into how to address cyberattacks and different security managers shared their experiences—from team coordination to internal pressure management—when an organization faces a serious and prolonged incident.
Leadership, culture and talent as pillars
The conversations highlighted the importance of cybersecurity culture and the human leadership behind each strategy. The speakers agreed on the need to foster cohesive teams, combine technology and talent, and address security management from both a technical and organizational perspective.
Likewise, executives from large organizations participated who shared their vision on the evolution of the CISO role, risk management and the importance of building resilient and collaborative teams.
Among the technology user companies present at the meeting, the following stood out: Abertis, Grupo Agrolimen, Banco Sabadell, Glovo, GLS, Iberdrola, Grup Mutuam, Nationale-Nederlanden, Naturgy and Volkswagen Group.
An ecosystem of innovation and collaboration
The event was supported by a solid group of sponsors representing major technology leaders, who contributed their vision and solutions to the sector’s most urgent challenges: Softeng, Immersive, Riot, Cloudflare, ManageEngine, Sosafe, ESET, Insight, QuoIntelligence, SecurityScoreCard and Mimecast.
Its representatives analyzed how technology can become a strategic tool to increase resilience, accelerate innovation and guarantee business continuity in a context of constant disruption.
Key topics addressed during the IDC Cybersecurity Summit Barcelona 2024
- Resilience as the central axis of the cybersecurity strategy: from a focus on prevention to recovery capacity and operational continuity.
- The role of the CISO as a strategic leader, who transcends the technical function to become an engine of innovation and guarantor of digital business.
- Artificial Intelligence and automation as allies in the detection, response and mitigation of cyber attacks, and also as new risk vectors.
- Real experiences about management before cyber attackswhere experts showed how to coordinate teams, manage internal communication and maintain the operation in the face of real crises.
- Protection of critical assets and regulatory compliance: Strategies for secure infrastructure and operations in multicloud and hyperconnected environments.
- Talent management and cybersecurity culturehighlighting the need to train, raise awareness and retain specialized professionals.
- Organizational resilience as a competitive advantage in the face of growing threats and reputational impact.
- Innovation and collaboration between the public and private ecosystemas a lever to strengthen national and business security.
Conclusion: resilience, collaboration and vision of the future
He IDC Cybersecurity Summit Barcelona 2025 reaffirmed that today’s cybersecurity is no longer measured only by the ability to prevent attacks, but by the strength to recover and continue operating in the midst of adversity.
In an environment marked by artificial intelligence, hyperconnectivity and growing threats, digital resilience is consolidated as the true competitive differential.
IDC thus continues its commitment to promoting spaces of knowledge, collaboration and innovation, where sector leaders can anticipate the future and together build safer, more sustainable and more reliable organizations.
