Cybersecurity Budgets

Published: Nov. 3, 2022, 10 a.m.

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Cybersecurity budgets are increasing, by a lot. What's fueling the increase and where are those budgets being spent?

Check out\xa0this post\xa0for the discussions that are the basis of our conversation on this week\u2019s episode co-hosted by me,\xa0David Spark\xa0(@dspark), the producer of\xa0CISO Series, and\xa0Geoff Belknap\xa0(@geoffbelknap), CISO,\xa0LinkedIn. We welcome our sponsored guest sponsored guest Nick Kakolowski, senior director of research at IANS Research.

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In this episode:

  • What's fueling the increase in cybersecurity budgets and where are those budgets being spent?
  • Do we understand where the money is being spent? Is it on new hires? More tooling?
  • Does training new hires provide a good ROI for an increased budget?
  • Should we equate the success of a security program with the size of the budget? Or not?