Top Recommendations For CISOs In 2025: Deal With Uncertainty ... Again
Forrester, Wednesday, March 12th, 2025
The security landscape continues to evolve, as does global uncertainty, leaving CISOs to prepare for turbulence ahead. Our latest report, Top Recommendations For Your Security Program, 2025, provides timely guidance for security leaders as they navigate another precarious year for their roles, programs, and organizations.
We've included four of our 12 recommendations in this blog as a starter pack for what CISOs will deal with in 2025 and, most importantly, what they should do about it. Our recommendations for 2025 fall into four main themes:
- The changing consequences of the CISO role
- Changing technology across the enterprise and in cybersecurity
- Ever-present yet changing threats
- Securing emerging tech
We design our insights to help technology leaders, chief information officers, and chief information security officers (CISOs) and their teams stay ahead of the curve and more effectively advocate for their programs.