Fortinet Collaborates with Global Leaders at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025

From geopolitical shifts to the advent of newer technologies like AI to evolving cybersecurity risks, the world continues to grow more complex. While these shifts present unmatched opportunities for society at large and businesses around the globe, they also bring unique risks. Partnerships are paramount to address these risks and ensure continued growth for organizations worldwide.

Collaboration for the Intelligent Age

This week, Fortinet returned to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. The Forum's annual meeting hosts governments, major international organizations, civil society leaders, young changemakers, social entrepreneurs, and the Forum's 1,000 partner companies to discuss and identify solutions to critical global and regional challenges.

The 2025 event focused on "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age." The program was centered on five connected priorities-rebuilding trust, reimagining growth, investing in people, safeguarding the planet, and refreshing leadership strategies to evolve industries-with cybersecurity implications underpinning each of these pressing issues. During a panel discussion this week, I was pleased to share my personal insights on partnering to disrupt cybercrime operations at scale, highlighting lessons learned and best practices for working together to fight digital adversaries.

Events like the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting play a pivotal role in bringing leading voices from the public and private sectors together to unlock opportunities and solutions to collectively improve society.

Cultivating the Cybersecurity Workforce of Tomorrow

As a leader in cybersecurity, Fortinet understands the critical role that securing the digital world plays as organizations around the globe reimagine growth, invest in people, work to protect the planet, refresh leadership strategies, and ultimately advance their operations and grow trust among stakeholders. We believe it's our corporate responsibility to make the world safer and more sustainable.

For every enterprise, enhancing cyber resilience is an ongoing process, and investing in people-both those who already work in cybersecurity as well as professionals who are interested in pursuing a career in the field-is foundational to successful risk management. In addition to offering a variety of free and low-cost cybersecurity education opportunities through the award-winning Fortinet Training Institute, Fortinet is involved in numerous collaborations designed to develop and sustain the global cybersecurity workforce.

Last year, the World Economic Forum published its Strategic Cybersecurity Talent Framework, which serves as a reference for public and private sector leaders concerned about the workforce shortage who are also committed to developing robust cybersecurity talent among their respective sectors. Given our ongoing work with the World Economic Forum, Fortinet experts, including our CEO Ken Xie, contributed to developing the framework. Additionally, Fortinet is a long-standing partner of the Cybersecurity Learning Hub, a project of the world Economic Forum that's managed by the Global Cyber Alliance, Salesforce, and Fortinet. The Cybersecurity Career Path, available as part of the initiative, provides a library of career-oriented information, expert interviews, and training modules focused on cybersecurity. Using these resources, learners can map a unique career path based on the type of cybersecurity role they want to pursue.

The Role of Partnerships in Securing Our Society

While the proper people, technology, and processes are crucial to enhancing cybersecurity, no individual or organization can have complete insight into all existing threats. Disrupting cybercrime requires that public and private organizations come together, taking a coordinated and unified approach. Cultivating relationships across industries and borders creates trust, and fostering trust paves the way for sharing intelligence regularly to strengthen the chances of collectively outpacing our adversaries.

The importance of partnerships was a prominent discussion topic at the annual meeting 2025 as well as the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity in November 2024, which Fortinet also attended. During a discussion I facilitated during the Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity, participants offered unique ideas for dismantling the trust among prominent cybercrime organizations, acknowledging that disturbing threat actor communities will significantly impact the overall ecosystem.

Progress in Disrupting the Economics of Cybercrime

In the past decade, significant progress has been made in building partnerships to close the cyber skills gap and disrupt global cybercrime, spanning from international cooperation, public-private partnerships, and other strategic efforts designed to increase cyber resilience.

Fortinet has a long-standing commitment to fostering a variety of public-private partnerships, working closely with the World Economic Forum and other organizations. We were a founding member of its Centre for Cybersecurity in 2019. In addition to helping to develop the Strategic Cybersecurity Talent Framework, we actively contributed to the Partnership Against Cybercrime (PAC) and the AI and Cyber Initiative. Fortinet is also one of the four founding members of the Cybercrime Atlas project.

The Cybercrime Atlas, which became operational in 2024, was created to establish an ongoing, coordinated effort to develop a chain of disruption in the world of cybercrime. The Cybercrime Atlas community of defenders uses open-source research to map cybercriminal activities and identify joint public and private sector responses to cybercrime. The group's members include over 20 law enforcement agencies, private-sector security companies, incident responders, nongovernmental organizations, financial institutions, and academic partners.

In its first year of operation, Cybercrime Atlas has already made significant progress in disrupting major cybercrime activities and is a strong example of an effective partnership. The group's contributors shared more than 10,000 community-vetted and actionable data points, supported two cross-border cybercrime disruption efforts, and created seven comprehensive intelligence packages on emerging threats shared with law enforcement. Insights from Cybercrime Atlas contributed to the success of Operation Serengeti, an effort in which the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation (AFRIPOL) identified and arrested 1,006 members of cybercrime groups operating across Africa.

In addition to our work with the World Economic Forum, Fortinet is involved in various other global threat intelligence initiatives, including NATO NICP, INTERPOL Expert Working Group, the Cyber Threat Alliance working committee, and FIRST.

Reflections from the Annual Meeting 2025

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting offers a critical opportunity for public and private entities from varied sectors and geographies to discuss potential solutions to pressing global challenges. I look forward to sharing additional takeaways and reflections from the event here on the Fortinet blog in the coming weeks.

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