Survey Sees Drop In Cybersecurity Spending Growth Rates
Security Boulevard, Friday, August 8th, 2025
A survey of 587 CISOs published this week finds security budget growth dropped to 4%, down from 8% in 2024, with more than half reporting flat or shrinking budgets.
Conducted by IANS Research and Artico Search, an executive search firm, the survey also finds security budgets as a percentage of IT spending declined from 11.9% to 10.9%, breaking a five-year upward trend. Staffing growth, meanwhile, slowed to 7%, with only 11% of CISOs reporting they are adequately staffed. The remaining 89% describe their teams as stretched thin or understaffed leading to serious organizational risk given the expanding scope of security requirements, the survey finds.