Top Highlights

• With cyberattacks on the rise, managing wider and more complex attack surfaces, and mounting pressure to do more with tighter budgets, it’s no wonder three in four CISOs in the U.S. report feeling burned out
• hey’re in dual CIO/CISO roles in an effort to streamline strategy and further cut costs. And when security breaches and ransomware attacks occur, CISOs often automatically shoulder the blame.
• A survey this year found that 62% of CISOs are worried that when a breach occurs, they’ll be held personally accountable. As the Wall Street Journal explains, “relentless cyberattacks and pressure to fix security gaps despite budget constraints are raising the stress levels of corporate cyber leaders and their worries about personal liability.”
• With the White House considering a ban on ransom payments — which for the first time would elevate the cybersecurity conversation to the CEO, the CFO, and the board — it won’t just be the CISO stuck holding the bag when a cyberattack happens.
• unprecedented broadening of cybersecurity awareness and reckoning, with the federal mechanisms in place to hold the culpable accountable, across all of business

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