Cybersecurity's Future Is All About Governance, Not More Tools
DARKReading, Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
As CISOs take a seat at the boardroom table, the focus shifts from stacking security tools to driving accountability, efficiency, and strategic risk management.
The past 10 years have been defined by unprecedented growth in cybersecurity procurement. Organizations poured considerable resources into expanding their toolsets to meet the requirements outlined in the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and catch up with ever-growing, sophisticated threats. Budgets swelled as layer upon layer of solutions were added to the technology stack. According to a Panaseer report, organizations deployed an average of 76 different security tools in 2022, a jump from 64 tools deployed in 2019.