NATO’s Cybersecurity Spending Proposals’ Impact on the Industry

NATO has fundamentally redefined what it means to defend the alliance. At the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague, allies made a commitment to investing 5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually on core defense requirements and defense and security-related spending by 2035. This represents a dramatic escalation from the previous 2% GDP benchmark. The commitment also includes a condition about how they are to invest that money. NATO allies will be expected to commit to spending around 3.5% of GDP on “hard defense” that will include weapons and troops, and (for the first time) an additional 1.5% on…