Staffing concerns remain an obstacle for security leaders to ensure the security of their organizations. The Cyber Security in Focus research conducted by Stott and May reveals that CISOs see budget as the biggest barrier to strategy execution in 2023, overtaking internal skills for the first time.
Fifty-one percent of security leaders highlighted budget as their primary inhibitor to delivering on strategy, with internal skills (34%), board-level buy-in (11%) and technology (3%) also being cited as issues by the global sample of CISOs.