7 Key Trends Defining The Cybersecurity Market Today
CSO Online, Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
Here's what CISOs should know about the industry's evolutions, as top vendors fortify platform strategies, upstarts attract VC investment, and product categories blur and emerge.
Enterprise security budgets are expected to increase 15% in 2025, from an estimated $184 billion in 2024 to $212 billion, according to Gartner. That's good news for CISOs because it provides additional resources in the ongoing battle against cyberattacks.
'The continued heightened threat environment, cloud movement, and talent crunch are pushing security to the top of the priorities list and pressing CISOs to increase their organization's security spend,' says Shailendra Upadhyay, senior research principal at Gartner.
At the same time, CISOs have to make the tough calls as to how and where to deploy those security dollars in order to get the most bang for the buck.