Cyber security leaders will face a mix of challenges and opportunities this year influenced by generative AI (GenAI) evolution, digital decentralising, supply chain interdependencies, regulatory change, endemic talent shortages and a constantly evolving threat landscape.
Gartner senior principal analyst Alex Michaels said security and risk management (SRM) leaders face a mix of challenges and opportunities this year, with a goal to enable transformation and embed resilience.
“Their efforts in achieving both are crucial to support their organisation’s aspirations to not only innovate, but ensure their innovations are secure and sustainable in a fast-changing digital world,” he said.
GenAI driving data security programs
Most security efforts and financial resources are traditionally focused on protecting structured data such as databases. However, the rise of GenAI has transformed data security programs shifted the focus onto the to protect unstructured data text, images and videos.
“Many organisations have completely reoriented their investment strategies, which has significant implications for large language model (LLM) training, data…
