HÀ NỘI Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader, has announced the findings of a 2025 International Data Corporation (IDC) survey highlighting how organisations across Việt Nam are adopting AI as the frontline of their cyber defence strategy.

The IDC study, commissioned by Fortinet, reveals that AI has moved beyond hype to become a critical enabler of speed, accuracy, and scale in security operations, and is now shaping hiring priorities, investment strategies, and the architecture of modern cybersecurity teams.

AI is transforming both sides of the cybersecurity equation.

For defenders, it offers the potential to automate detection, accelerate response, and scale threat intelligence with unprecedented speed.

But the same capabilities are now being leveraged by attackers, who are using AI to launch stealthier, faster, and more adaptive attacks.

According to the IDC Study, nearly 52 per cent of organisations across Việt Nam say they have encountered AI-powered cyber threats in the past year.

“The findings of this survey reflect the growing maturity of cybersecurity across the region. Organisations are no longer experimenting with AI, they are embedding it across threat detection, incident response, and team design," Simon Piff, Research Vice Prrsident of IDC Asia-Pacific, said. 

"This signals a new era of security operations that is smarter, faster, and more adaptive to the evolving risk landscape. AI is fundamentally reshaping how threats are identified, prioritised, and acted upon, and this evolution demands a parallel shift in cybersecurity strategy and talent.”

Organisations are rapidly progressing from AI-powered detection to more advanced use cases such as automated response, predictive threat modelling, AI-driven incident response, AI-powered threat intelligence, and behavioural analytics.

These top five use cases reflect how detection has become table stakes, while response, prediction, and orchestration are now the next frontier.

GenAI is also gaining traction, with adoption focused on light-touch tasks such as running playbooks, updating rules and policies, social engineering detection, writing detection rules, and guided investigations.

Across the Việt Nam, the top five cybersecurity roles in demand include security data scientists, threat intelligence analysts, AI security engineers, AI security researchers, and AI-specific incident response professionals.

Organisations are no longer just deploying AI tools; they are building their cybersecurity teams around AI capabilities.

This reflects a broader trend where the workforce is rapidly evolving to match the pace of technological adoption.

“Chief Information Security Officers across Việt Nam are entering a more advanced phase of cybersecurity planning — one where AI is not just augmenting defences but influencing how organisations structure teams, allocate budgets, and prioritize threats," said Nguyễn Gia Đức, Fortinet Việt Nam country manager, said. VNS