Top US cyber leaders will headline the 2025 Aspen Cyber Summit on November 18.
Help us celebrate a decade of dialogue and action. Register now to join us in Washington, DC.
Top US cyber leaders will headline the 2025 Aspen Cyber Summit on November 18.
Help us celebrate a decade of dialogue and action. Register now to join us in Washington, DC.
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Marking the beginning of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Aspen Digital, Consumer Reports, and the Global Cyber Alliance have released the fourth annual Consumer Cyber Readiness Report. The report examines American consumer attitudes on digital privacy and security and steps they are taking to protect themselves from potential threats.
Key findings from the 2025 report include:
Historically, many of our consumer protection agencies have been underfunded. Consumers’ confidence in the privacy of their data is down, and federal efforts to rein in data brokers and boost security have been rolled back. Companies do not need to wait for government action. They, too, can lift the burden from consumers by making products with security built in—by design and by default—and by utilizing best practices such as data minimization.
Consumer Reports conducted two separate nationally representative multi-mode surveys—one of 2,158 US adults in April 2025 and one of 2,333 US adults in May 2025—to understand consumers’ behaviors in improving their digital security and privacy and provide new insights into consumer scams and their attack vectors.
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