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2025 CISO Compensation and Budget Survey


Our annual survey—now in its sixth year—is developed in partnership with Artico Search and IANS. The 2025 survey features new questions focused on board engagement and C-suite interaction, the increasing scope of the CISO role, and career planning.

Add your perspective to our data set! Survey respondents receive early access to reports built from the data.

The resulting data analysis and report will include:

CISO career planning strategies

New for 2025: Chart CISO career intentions, roles targeted and next steps.

The CISO role is expanding beyond cybersecurity, and threat environment complexity is soaring, yet only 3% saw comp increases tied to new responsibilities due to tight budgets in 2024. Will growing threats and increased regulatory scrutiny fuel demand for leadership compensation in 2025 and beyond?
Phil Gardner, IANS Founder & CEO

Add your perspective to our data set

Survey respondents are the first to receive our series of in-depth benchmarking reports on key security budget metrics, security leadership and org models, staff compensation, and industry-specific reports.