From adopting agentic AI to measuring security ROI and navigating an expanding role, discover how 650 global CISOs are maintaining resilience and empowering their organizations to thrive in the AI era.
EXPANDED SCOPE
More demanding and dangerous
Like the threat landscape itself, the CISO’s role is getting bigger. They’re now responsible for data privacy, regulatory compliance, third-party cyber risk, and so much more:
- 96% oversee AI governance and risk across the enterprise
- 85% say DevSecOps now falls under their purview
- 67% are responsible for IoT, OT, and ICS security integrations
AI ACCELERATION
A priority and a challenge
Resilient CISOs are establishing guardrails to ensure generative AI and agentic AI initiatives are trusted and secure:
- 92% say AI allows their teams to review more security events
- 78% have created dedicated security teams for AI agents
- 39% are exploring agentic AI for their security functions
MEASURING SUCCESS
A benchmark and a baseline
To secure funding and support, CISOs must demonstrate clear ROI for cybersecurity initiatives and establish security as a business enabler:
- 41% can’t correlate ROI to risk mitigation and remediation activities
- 82% say incident reduction is the top metric for communicating security ROI across the business
- 78% collaborate with technical executives on security operational business risk
