A new report from Marlin Hawk has published results from a study of 500 chief information security officers (CISOs) around the world.
A new report from executive search firm Marlin Hawk has shown that 62pc of chief information security officers (CISOs) believe the global cybersecurity talent shortage will get worse over the next five years.
The CISO in 2020 report is based on a study of 500 cybersecurity professionals from companies with more than 500 employees in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. It contains the results of research, carried out by Vanson Bourne, that delves into the roles and demographics of CISOs and the challenges they face.
It also features interviews with CISOs from such companies as Mastercard, Zalando and Boeing. CSO at Mastercard, Ron Green, for example, noted the importance of machine learning and automation to the future of risk management.
“Machine learning and automation are going to be really helpful to current and future CISOs,” he said. “Businesses are still going to need smart humans on security, but already the humans that are in our security operations centres are being overwhelmed with things they…
