New Mindset For CISOS
Professional Security Magazine, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
The 'talent gap' is a red herring, in cyber, according to Tom Gol, Senior Product Manager at the platform Armis: it's really an automation and context gap, he writes.
We constantly hear about a cybersecurity staffing crisis, but perhaps the real challenge isn't a lack of people. It might just be a critical shortage of intelligent automation and actionable context for the talented teams we already have. It's almost a mantra in cybersecurity circles: 'There's a massive talent gap!'
Conferences echo it, reports reinforce it, and CISOs often feel it acutely. This widely accepted idea suggests we simply don't have enough skilled professionals, leading to over-worked teams, burnout, and, most critically, persistent organizational risk. The default response often becomes a relentless cycle of 'buy more tools, tune more tools, and staff more teams', a cycle that feels increasingly unsustainable and inefficient.