security budgets
One in Four Tech CISOs Unhappy with Compensation
Stagnating security budgets and mounting job pressures are weighing on CISOs, a quarter of whom expressed discontent with their salary and overall compensation. Show me the money: The average total compensation for ...
Survey Surfaces Need to Change SecOps Priorities
A survey of 250 senior cybersecurity and IT professionals found well over half of respondents (57%) reported that security operations (SecOps) are more chaotic today than two years ago, with 96% planning ...
2023 Cybersecurity Spending Increases to Combat Evolving Threats
A survey of more than 6,550 security professionals finds that while organizations continue to invest heavily in cybersecurity there’s still not a lot of confidence when it comes to actually being able ...
Cliff Notes to 5 Studies about the State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare
The volume and severity of cyber threats and attacks have grown in healthcare. Here’s a look at several studies that describe the state of cybersecurity for the industry ...
10 Statistics that Summarize the State of Cybersecurity in Financial Services
Cybersecurity statistics show financial services organizations are 300 times more likely to be attacked, experience hundreds of thousands of security alerts, and invest an average of $2,300 per employee in cybersecurity ...
Spending, Headcount and Optimism: 6 Significant Takeaways from the State of IT Security Survey by eSecurity Planet
A survey of readers by the trade publication eSecurity Planet found businesses plan to boost cybersecurity spending and identified specific areas of confidence and doubt around defenses ...
A v-CISO’s Take on the 5 Issues Facing Cybersecurity
A v-CISO is an on-demand consultant with a company’s leadership team with a good vantage point for spotting security issues In just 20 years, we’ve seen the cybersecurity field grow from virtually ...
“It is everyone’s business and responsibility” – 40+ Cybersecurity Professionals Share What They Wish Business Leaders Would Understand in Their Own Words
Cybersecurity professionals want business leaders to know they exist to protect the business, they need budget and resources to do that effectively, and that security world is highly dynamic so things can ...
How to Cope With the Security Talent Shortage in SecOps
Security budgets are rising, but are they helping with challenges caused by the security talent shortage? This post offers insights from our recent security budgeting survey and shares ideas on how to ...
Why the Entire C-Suite is Responsible in a Data Breach
C-suite executives and IT cyber pros not seeing eye to eye on cybersecurity is a common concern, but when crisis strikes this lack of alignment can have potentially catastrophic, business-ending consequences. In ...
