Forrester On Cybersecurity Budgeting: 2025 Will Be The Year Of CISO Fiscal Accountability
VentureBeat, Monday, December 30th, 2024
With 90% of cybersecurity and risk leaders predicting they'll see budget increases in 2025, many are facing a new era of accountability, with boards wanting to see solid returns on cybersecurity investments.
That's an elusive expectation to deliver on, given that 35.9% of a typical CISO's budget is going for software. Knowing if, how, when and under what conditions a given cybersecurity software investment delivers a hard-number-based ROI is not easy to do, and such numbers of hard to prove.
Clear budget wins do exist, though. They start with automating security operations center (SOC) workflows that are overwhelming analysts with too many conflicting alerts.