Human-Centric Focus is Crucial for an Effective Cybersecurity Program: Gartner

enabling routine benchmarks of attack methods, security measures, and processes. By 2026, two-thirds of medium businesses and more than 40% of organizations will undertake cybersecurity validation tests on consolidated platforms.

Trend 7: Cybersecurity Platform Consolidation

Vendors are concentrating platforms around one or more important cybersecurity categories as enterprises strive to streamline operations. For instance, identity security services could be made available through a platform that integrates capabilities for governance, privileged access, and access control. SRM leaders must constantly inventory security controls to identify overlaps and lessen duplication with unified platforms.

Trend 8: Composable Businesses Need Composable Security

To adapt to the growing rate of business change, organizations must move away from relying on monolithic systems and toward embedding modular capabilities into their applications. In a method known as “composable security,” cybersecurity measures are included into architectural patterns and then implemented using composable technologies in a modular fashion. More than 50% of essential corporate applications will be constructed using composable architecture by 2027, necessitating a new strategy for application security.

“Composable security is designed to protect composable business,” added Addiscott. “The development of applications using composable components exposes dependencies that were not previously known. By developing component-based, reusable security control objects, CISOs have a huge opportunity to integrate privacy and security by design.

Trend 9: Boards Expand Their Competency in Cybersecurity Oversight

The move toward explicit-level accountability for cybersecurity to include higher duties for board members in their governance activities is what is motivating the board’s growing focus on cybersecurity. Directors must get documentation from cybersecurity executives that shows how the organization’s goals and objectives are affected by cybersecurity programs.

“SRMs leaders must encourage active board participation and engagement in cybersecurity decision-making,” Addiscott stated. Serve as a strategic advisor, making recommendations for the board’s course of action, including the distribution of funds and resources for security.