88% of CISOs believe the cyber threat landscape will become more complex over the next 12 months
What are the driving forces behind the changes to the cyber landscape?
How can AI be best utilised to bolster defences?
With ongoing budget constraints and resourcing challenges, how can CISOs be best prepared for the future?
Gemserv’s latest cyber report, The Future CISO, has been compiled after its second annual survey of chief information security officers (CISOs) at 200 large UK and Europe enterprises, across a range of sectors including financial services, energy, retail, IT and manufacturing.
The key findings include:
- 72% of organisations are actively incorporating AI into customer-facing products and services, but 37% of CISOs say they are not confident the business fully understands the risks
- 48% of CISOs describe the board’s general understanding of risks as ‘excellent’, a significant increase from 2023 (37%) but 62% believe that staff lack the required knowledge and training to avoid a breach
- 79% of large enterprises invest in specialist cyber threat intelligence for CISOs, but the remainder rely solely on the press, social media, vendor marketing and regulators for information, which is not real-time and can be less reliable
- 88% of CISOs think the threat landscape is becoming more complex, with 37% not confident they have the resources they need. 44% struggle to recruit and retain the skilled people they need, amid a 3.2m ‘workforce gap’ for IT talent
