October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which serves as an opportunity to enhance your organization’s cybersecurity education and awareness program, ensuring that all employees, from entry-level staff to executives, understand their role in protecting sensitive data. This is more important than ever; according to Gartner, by 2025 lack of talent or human failure will be responsible for over half of significant cyber incidents. Even more sobering, Forrester predicts that 90% of data breaches in 2024 will involve human error.
This got me thinking about what these challenges mean from the perspective of the different roles within the security team. What’s high on their respective agendas and what are they doubling down on? What are CISOs and security leaders prioritizing versus the security operators?