In the past few years a number of high-profile data breaches have garnered widespread media attention resulting in greater general scrutiny and awareness of the need for network security. Legislators, in particular, have taken notice, evidenced by a number of efforts aimed at addressing these crimes, including the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act that was controversially passed into law in December 2015. The truth is that these types of efforts will likely have a tremendous impact on how information security is handled over the coming years – possibly more than anything that hackers and identity thieves themselves will do – and the combination of these and other factors will significantly affect how CSOs address cybersecurity in 2016 and beyond. Fortunately, CSOs can educate themselves about a number of factors and issues to be better prepared to combat the myriad threats they face.