CISOs will face growing challenges in 2025 and beyond | Computer Weekly
Summary
As artificial intelligence (AI) blurs the line between human and machine attackers, and quantum computing threatens to unravel encryption standards, the challenges facing CISOs in the coming years will be unlike anything we’ve seen before. For security teams, the psychological toll of constant pressure can result in burnout and turnover, while organisations risk adopting a defeatist mindset, seeing breaches as inevitable. To combat this, CISOs must reframe cyber security as a strategic enabler, communicate effectively to maintain engagement, highlight successes, support team well-being, and leverage automation to reduce manual burdens and false positives. AI enables more sophisticated and adaptive attacks, making them harder to detect and defend against, while quantum computing has the potential to break current encryption systems by solving the complex mathematical problems that protect modern cryptographic security. To stay ahead, CISOs will need to adopt proactive security strategies, invest in automation and advanced threat detection tools, and encourage a security-first culture across their organisations and departments.