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2025 Compensation and Budget Benchmark Report for CISOs in Tech
This report provides expert analysis on the latest trends and challenges facing tech CISOs. Benchmark against peers in your specific tech subsector, including fintech, healthtech, cyber vendors, software, and digital infrastructure.
- Explore trends in CISO Compensation: Equity packages push total compensation 50% higher than nontech sectors.
- Back up your budget decisions with data: Diverging conditions lead to double-digit growth in some sectors, decreases in others. See where you land.
- Understand role scope and compare to your peers: 20% more tech CISOs handle product security, enterprise risk, and privacy than nontech peers.
- Get perspective on board engagement across subsects and firm size: Two-thirds of tech CISOs regularly update or serve on board subcommittees.
Equip yourself with robust data that gains budget approval, boosts compensation and drives security initiatives.
2025 Cyber Threat Predictions
What security threats should we anticipate in 2025? IANS Faculty Jason Garbis advises to brace for more advanced cyber threats, including AI-driven attacks, supply chain vulnerabilities and deepfakes. Strengthen your business processes, resiliency, and detection capabilities now.
Learn threat modeling strategies to strengthen defenses and stay resilient
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This report highlights some recent statistics on breach costs and provides a process for determining breach costs specific to your organization.

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Cost vs. Complexity: A More Practical Two-Dimensional Vendor Analysis
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This Report presents a different way to do two-dimensional analysis that aims to help you contextualize your decision to your specific environment/needs to help you determine which vendors work best in certain types of companies and technology environments.

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Incident Briefing: DeepSeek Disrupts the AI Market
December 20, 2024
Join IANS Faculty members Jake Williams and Summer Fowler as they dive into need-to-know implications of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company that recently released a chatbot it claims rivals ChatGPT, but cost significantly less to develop.


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Incident Response Plan Template
November 21, 2024
This Incident Response Plan (IRP) template is a practical guide for managing cybersecurity incidents.

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AI Vendor Questionnaire
November 27, 2024
This comprehensive AI vendor questionnaire is designed to help organizations assess the security, privacy, compliance, and ethical standards of third-party AI tools.
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Consider PAM and PIM in a Modern Identity Strategy
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