Cybersecurity Leadership

Enterprise organizations collectively spend billions of dollars every year on security tools and systems to protect them from an evolving threat landscape. Yet, despite the massive annual investment, the number of data breaches continues to rise. 

CIOs must rethink how they approach and allocate budgets to protect the cloud. Blind spots must be eliminated in 2024.

Many cybersecurity providers offer quick fixes for boosting resilience. But just investing in the right tools is not enough to keep you safe

“AI has created a new security scare for organizations; Gartner is projecting double-digit growth across all segments of enterprise security spending for 2024.”

More than a quarter of UK organisations think their cybersecurity budget is inadequate to protect them from growing threats.

Cybersecurity leaders must critically review funds, then partner with other departments to identify money-saving opportunities while decreasing attack surfaces.

The average cybersecurity budget increased by 29% in 2023, but organizations call for a 40% rise to mitigate security risks effectively.

With the threat of recession looming, chief information security officers (CISOs) will increasingly see cybersecurity budgets constrained. So how can companies focus their limited cybersecurity investments on the controls that matter most?

A survey of CISOs reveals how advanced companies gain cyber maturity and what best practices they use to prepare for emerging threats in economically uncertain times.

Even as companies throw more money toward their cybersecurity budgets, businesses aren’t getting the value they expect from their investments.

Insider threats and the rate of successful attacks coupled with corporate cost-cutting efforts have historically hurt cybersecurity programs — and would likely do so again.

It's easy to assume that the solution to the cybersecurity problem is money– to hire more security experts, to invest in more tools and technology. If only it were that simple.

Whether budgets contract or expand, cybersecurity threats are still on the rise, and organizations need a new approach to improving their cyber stance.

Cybersecurity is one of those areas where cost cutting must be done with forethought. Cut the wrong things and it can lead to catastrophic results including government fines, criminal penalties and loss of customer confidence. Cut the right things and key risks can still be mitigated and they can be mitigated more efficiently.

Optimizing your security stack, and in turn, your budget, doesn’t have to be a guessing game.

Security budgets will benefit from new priorities, streamlined responses rather than wholesale cost-cutting in light of cyberattacks and increased regulatory requirements.

Security investments can come with hidden costs that aren’t always obvious but eat into security leaders’ funds without them ever realizing

After years of rapid growth, cybersecurity spending is starting to taper among enterprises, with a 65% fall in budget growth in the 2022-2023 budget cycle as global instability and inflationary pressures start to pinch, according to a study by IANS Research.

The impact of a cybersecurity program on customer trust and brand loyalty is more important than ever, and a large-scale breach can be disastrous. How should this be communicated? Not necessarily through big scary numbers and the tools that can prevent it.

Security executives identify distributed workforce, supply chain issues, and the looming recession as IT security spending barriers.

Organizations are designing their security spending around keeping the business secure and operations running smoothly.

According to a Recent Survey: What’s really going on with the CISOs and their budgets in many organizations?

CISOs' ability to pivot tight budgets is key to defense plans that can stand up to attackers.

Demand for skilled professionals will remain high, but cyber budgets will be eaten away.

Investments will increase but CISOs will be more selective, driving the need for federated technology architectures.