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CISOs’ roles need to transition from technologists who prevent breaches to corporate strategists managing cyber risks. Unfortunately, slowing down CISOs’ career growth are security tech stacks that aren’t designed for new digital transformation, virtualization and hybrid cloud initiatives in their companies. Gartner’s recently published top security and risk management trends for 2022 report explains where the most vulnerable security stack gaps are.

The seven trends also help to explain the many challenges CISOs face when transitioning their careers and cybersecurity spending away from tactics and into strategic roles. Implicit in these trends is the urgent need to treat cybersecurity as a business decision. Taken together from the standpoint of enterprises focused on new digital initiatives, the seven trends show clearly that cybersecurity needs to be a business enabler first. The two trending proof points of cybersecurity’s business value are decentralized decision-making and faster response times to business challenges.